January 22nd 2022
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Poor selfies, rainy days, and locked gates – all are reported triggers for the auto-firing of delivery personnel by Amazon’s Flex app, and all follow events beyond the workers’ control. Meanwhile, no appeal to humans is available on the platform, nor any...
Core Amazon policies and business practices have come under scrutiny in the aftermath of the Amazon warehouse collapse in Edwardsville, Illinois that killed six workers last Friday. For one, the incident raised concerns about Amazon’s reliance on contractor labor,...
As described in my last post, employers who use algorithmic decision systems (ADSs) in hiring reify past prejudices and systemic discrimination while coating the process in a veneer of objectivity. More troubling, mathematician and social activist Cathy O’Neil...
It’s no secret that the hiring process is rife with bias and discrimination. Hiring personnel are only human, after all, and their personal biases lead to both unintentional and intentional discrimination. But what if hiring personnel weren’t human? What if we...
ICE conducted its largest workplace raid in over a decade this week, arresting over 280 employees of CVE Technology Group in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. The arrested individuals are predominantly women from countries including El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nigeria...
Amazon's discriminatory hiring algorithm is not alone, Cathy O'Neill writes. Rather, many companies use algorithms for hiring and human resources tasks and intentionally seek to maintain plausible deniability about whether the algorithm perpetuates discrimination....