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Gig Economy workers want access to company algorithms for fair practices

HR Digest

The key is the Kafkaesque element of what it means to have an algorithm as your boss,” said Eva Blum-Dumontet, senior researcher at advocacy group Privacy International and co-author of a new report ‘Managed by Bots’, written with WIE. Courts in Europe are now taking note of algorithmic management malpractices.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

Among those crown jewel TV moments were: Our Town , starring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Requiem for a Heavyweight , the premiere of “Playhouse 90.”

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Remembering Andy Grove, the Teacher

Harvard Business Review

Andy, of course, had already shown his interest in academia much earlier by writing a widely used textbook on semiconductor technology and teaching that subject at Berkeley. Plus he had already contributed to the business literature with his best-selling book High Output Management (1983). Once, Eva’s mother came too.

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This Airbus Makes Pilots Smarter

Harvard Business Review

But look under the hood and you will find an array of sensors and proprietary technology developed by GE that make their pilots smarter. Pilots and airline managers see the results on a dashboard and use it to make better informed decisions about how much fuel they need and which path they are going to take.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Almost Ready for Business

Harvard Business Review

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., That’s important for convincing managers to act on analytical insights. But it seems we’re now at an actual tipping point.

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The Research We’ve Ignored About Happiness at Work

Harvard Business Review

And just because we have more advanced technology today doesn’t mean we’re any closer to pinning down a definition, as Will Davies reminds us in his new book The Happiness Industry. They wanted their managers to provide them with a steady stream of recognition and emotional reassurance.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

Among those crown jewel TV moments were: Our Town , starring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. They were well rehearsed.

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