No doubt, within football, there are many systems of inequalities operating—including but not limited to race, economics, prestige, worker’s rights, and I could go on. However, I grew up under the Friday night lights of Texas and have always lived in big football towns. As such, I als...
Kunal Kamra questions Blinkit CEO over gig worker wages After calling out Ola's mass manufacturing defect affecting its electric scooters, Kunal Kamra has now shifted his focus to Blinkit, questioning CEO Albinder Dhindsa over the pay and working conditions of the platforms delivery partners. Kam...
Esther Villa was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and has lived in South Phoenix for 20 years. For half of those years, she has worked with Unlimited Potential, an organization that has helped Esther obtain her GED, earn her community health worker license and eventually become the Director of Oper...
This process is grounded in a fundamental realization (and acceptance) that I don’t have the skills and assets that are most needed right now. I’m not a health care provider, or a farmer, or a social worker. If I worked in health care or social service, right now I’d value exped...
Job satisfaction represents the extent to which expectations are and match the real awards.” Job satisfaction is also described as “a worker’s sense of achievement and success on the job. It is generally perceived to be directly linked to productivity as well as to personal well-being.” ...
“Why Do I Care What’s Similar?” Probing Challenges in AI-Assisted Child Welfare Decision-Making through Worker-AI Interface Design Concepts. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 454-470). Week 4 – Evaluating (individual) predictions and decisions Dawid,...
This highlights the importance of having a meaningful work environment that will enhance the worker’s wellbeing and satisfaction. First, the dimension of “adequate compensation” was found to act as a motivation for employees to display high performance (Anitha, 2014). Their level of engagement ...
Those in the foresight condition were asked to rate the likelihood of a number of different outcomes, while those in the hindsight condition were provided an additional vignette which noted that the female character was sexually assaulted by a co-worker. In confirmation of hindsight bias, those ...
“Why Do I Care What’s Similar?” Probing Challenges in AI-Assisted Child Welfare Decision-Making through Worker-AI Interface Design Concepts. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 454-470). Week 4 – Evaluating (individual) predictions and decisions Dawid,...
Things that we experience as personal matters—a woman facing domestic violence, or a low-wage worker who cannot afford housing, or middle-class people stuck in daily traf- fic jams—are really about how our institutions function. Sociologists hold a mirror up to our society and help us see...