In some of Amazon’s more than 70 US fulfillment centers, the shelves, carried by robots, travel to human workers rather than the other way around.…
COMMITMENT
A company implanting microchips in its employees says it’s not to track them
A majority of employees at Three Square Market, a technology company in Wisconsin, have volunteered to embed a rice-sized chip in their bodies that allow…
THE DOOM SPECTRUM
Predictions for what robots will do to the US workforce, ranked from certain doom to potential utopia
Do you believe AI and robots taking over jobs is, as Elon Musk recently put it, the “biggest risk that we face as a civilization?”…
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT?
Happy Telework Day, Japan’s practice day for staying home during the 2020 Olympics
On July 24, Japan encouraged companies to experiment with what is still a relatively uncommon workplace policy in the country: Allowing employees to work from…
AUTOMATED TELLERS
McKinsey: Robots can do about 30% of the work at banks, but they won’t necessarily take jobs
About a third of work done at banks today can be automated by technology, according to a new report from McKinsey. That might sound like…
DO YOU WANT SANDALS WITH THAT?
McDonald’s new line of clothing isn’t as terrible as you’d expect
For one day, July 26th, McDonald’s will give away flip flops, sweatsuits, and other swag with UberEats deliveries. It’s called the “McDelivery Collection.” Fast food-themed…
SEVERAL PEOPLE ARE TYPING
Your boss knows how much you chat on Slack
Your Slack habits just became a little more visible to your boss. Slack, a work-oriented chatroom that around five million people across the world use…
DEPENDS
Researchers have settled the question of whether it’s better to work from home or the office
As IBM called thousands of remote workers back to its office this spring, other companies, such as the one behind WordPress, disbanded their offices and…
AI FOR LEARNING
Technology is setting us up for a training crisis
Bill Knight, an assembler at General Electric’s plant in Grove City, Pennsylvania, demonstrates how to torque a bolt on the flex plate of a 15-ton…
EASIER SAID
Ivanka Trump, champion of working women, hasn’t done much for those making her brand’s clothes
Donald Trump’s “America first” agenda pressures companies to keep jobs in the United States while Ivanka Trump’s business—like nearly all apparel businesses in the US—extensively…
IF YOU BUILD IT
One of the most popular freelance job sites has added an option to hire a bot
On the seven-year-old freelance website Fiverr, companies can hire workers for more than 10 million services ranging from the professional—graphic design, programming, digital marketing—to the…
WHO NEEDS A FIRM?
Forget the on-demand worker: Stanford researchers built an entire on-demand organization
After raising more than $22,000 on Kickstarter to make a storytelling card game called True Story, Daniel Steinbock, a designer and musician who started the…
