Sandeep Vaheesan interviews Frank Pasquale about his forthcoming book, New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI. My central argument is that AI and robotics most often complement, rather than replace, […]
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Many Britons Go Freelance for First Time
The experience of working from home is likely to have got more people thinking about going freelance, as they look to maintain those flexible aspects of their working life. Freelancer platform YunoJuno found in a […]
What Employees Have to Say About Remote Work
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has led to economic, health, and social devastation, it has also created an unprecedented opportunity: to run the world’s biggest-ever workplace experiment. To assess employee sentiment on these changes, from the […]
GitLab’s Radical Vision for the Future of Remote Work
GitLab employees log on to recurring 30-minute Company Calls to replicate the casual conversations that happen naturally when coworkers share the same office. The company, which makes an application that enables developers to collaborate while […]
Germany Eyes a Four-Day Week
Germany’s largest trade union, IG Metall, is proposing its members call for a four-day week to offset economic pressures heightened by the pandemic. Union head Jörg Hofmann told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper he would push […]
The Future Magic of Remote Collaboration
In a world where you have to social distance, how do you scrum? Social distancing has put a serious crimp in some of the most hallowed project flow practices. With no more whiteboards and the […]
Uber and Lyft’s Business Model May Be Dead. Good.
The biggest startups in modern history were built on old-fashioned worker exploitation. Time for an upgrade. Uber and Lyft sold themselves to investors as world-beating operations that would capture whole markets and then become profitable […]
Office Pods for Post-Covid Working
Xu Weiping has a vision for the future of office work: thousands of office pods where each person works in their own self-contained 3m x 3m cube. Xu reckons the coronavirus pandemic will have such […]
It’s Time to Implement a 4-Day Workweek
Andrew Yang says that the US is past due to implement a four-day workweek to better accommodate American workers. “It would help get us off of this hamster wheel that we’re on right now, where […]