Category: work
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People Make Games on Working at Valve
There have been former and current employees at Valve talking about the working conditions and the ways they work for years. People Make Games have posted this report to YouTube based on their interviews with 16 current and former employees of Valve and it’s very interesting to learn more about the working conditions at Valve.
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Apple Retail Workers Unionizing
Tim Cook’s compensation was $98.73 million in 2021.
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John Gruber’s Anti-Worker Screed
John Gruber wrote an ugly screed in reply to a letter that got leaked to The Verge’s Zoe Schiffer from Apple workers asking for more flexible time at home options. The office workers were told to return to the office three days a week later this year, and they would naturally prefer more flexible schedules.…
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The UK Supreme Court Rules that Workers for Uber are Employees
Mary-Ann Russon for the BBC: The ruling on Friday was Uber’s last appeal, as the Supreme Court is Britain’s highest court, and it has the final say on legal matters. Delivering his judgement, Lord Leggatt said that the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed Uber’s appeal that it was an intermediary party and stated that drivers should…
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Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers Into Brutal ‘Megacycle’ Shifts
Lauren Kaori Gurley writing for Vice’s Motherboard tech subsite about a new change for Amazon workers: On January 25, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago were presented with a baffling choice: sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, or lose your job. Management informed workers that their warehouse, known as DCH1, would…