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New Study Exposes Gender Bias in Tech Job Listings
Only 11 percent of all engineers in the U.S. are women, according to Department of Labor. The situation is a bit better among computer programmers, but not much. Women account for only 26 percent of...
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What Marissa Mayer Doesn’t (and Does) Get About White-Collar Work
When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banned her employees from working at home earlier this year, she sparked a culture war over How We Work Today. “Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from...
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The Way We Work Is Soul-Sucking, But Social Networks Are Not the Fix
We spend nearly half our waking hours at work, and much of that time is not even spent doing our actual job: It's all work about work. Email is broken, and what works on social networks like Facebook...
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Here’s How to Keep the Robots From Stealing Our Jobs
While some high-skilled work becomes indispensable, much routine work becomes disposable. The leaders of most firms overly script and standardize processes in pursuit of predictability, defining work...
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Let’s Bring The Polymath — and the Dabblers — Back
Some of the most exciting advancements in computing right now come from the field of deep learning, and companies such as Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are all involved because frankly, this...
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What UPS Drivers Can Tell Us About the Automated Future of Work
Let’s say you’re a driver for UPS. You have an hour and a half left before your shift ends and you still have 12 packages to deliver. Your challenge is to find the shortest route that takes rush-hour...
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When Robots Take All the Work, What’ll Be Left for Us to Do?
Robots have loomed over the future of labor for decades—at least since robotic arms started replacing auto workers on the assembly line in the early 1960s. Optimists say that more robots will lead to...
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My Life as a Robot
I have been part robot since May. Here is my story. The post My Life as a Robot appeared first on WIRED.
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Need a Job? There’s an App for That
In a world where mobile apps have made securing the labor of others, the script is being flipped: instead of just on-demand labor, think on-demand employment. The post Need a Job? There’s an App for...
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Dear Donald Trump: Do Not Fear the Future of Work
In one day, Clinton and Trump laid out diverging visions of the future. The post Dear Donald Trump: Do Not Fear the Future of Work appeared first on WIRED.
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