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#business #labour #life #remote #work | <blockquote>It was probably inevitable that sitting through a whole lot of job interviews and considering several offers would mean I would end up spending a disproportionate amount of time these past months thinking about what work means to me. This is a topic I am predisposed to (witness the title of this newsletter), and the activity of applying for jobs pretty much made everything else unthinkable. What I’m sharing today is some very rough thoughts about one corner of the way we talk about w...

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The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge

#censorship #facebook #labour #mental_health #moderation #practices #social_media #trauma #work | <blockquote>In a damning new report, Casey Newton gives an unprecedented look at the day-to-day lives of Facebook moderators in America. His interviews with twelve current and former employees of Cognizant in Arizona reveal a workplace perpetually teetering on the brink of chaos.</blockquote>

6 years ago | View Shared by victor

The history of weekends show they are a lie created by capitalism — Quartz

#capitalism #labour #time #weekend #work | <blockquote>We made up the weekend the same way we made up the week. The earth actually does rotate around the sun once a year, taking about 365.25 days. The sun truly rises and sets over twenty-four hours. But the week is man-made, arbitrary, a substance not found in nature. That seven-day cycle in which we...</blockquote>

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Is the Gig Economy Working? - The New Yorker

#economy #gig_economy #labour #via:popular #work

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