In April, the insurance company Aetna announced that it would pay their employees to sleep. Specifically, for every 20 consecutive nights that workers sleep 7 or more hours, workers are paid $25, up to $300 per year. As part of Aetna’s broader initiative to c... More »
Automation has captured the aspirations and anxieties of both companies and cultural commentators: while the promises of automation might include improved quality of life and lower prices, the peril of potential unemployment looms large. As the discussion cont... More »
Last week, the comment period closed on the EEOC’s proposed revision of the Employer Information Report. Also known as EEO-1, the Employer Information Report records the demographic information of employees. The EEOC’s revision seeks to expand data collectio... More »
Many articles have been written about a diversity crisis in Silicon Valley, perhaps due to tech firms’ initial resistance to releasing employee demographics. Enter Tracey Chou, an early Pinterest engineer, who launched a (still running) Google spreadsheet of ... More »