Interesting Links for 27-04-2019

[andrewducker]

Amazon can automatically fire warehouse workers for 'time off task'

(tags:amazon jobs automation )

University of Toronto discovered it had a 1.3% gender pay gap. So all women there are getting a 1.3% pay raise

(tags:canada pay inequality academia )

Comments

[rmc28]

Hah, my response was "only 1.3%? well done University of Toronto." Cambridge's GPG is 20%.

[rmc28]

Also, it's only comparing tenured and tenure-stream academics. I would be *fascinated* by a gpg analysis of other (more insecure) staff - my cynical expectation in advance would be that more women than men are in these insecure posts *and* they get paid less when comparing like-for-like experience.

[dewline]

1. Bezos' people have automated firing-for-(perceived)-cause.

Frightening. Because we know that other firms will license that tech and use it.

2. Good on U of T for this. Both for having a gap that small, and for fixing it once confirmed.

[jducoeur]

I do sort of wonder whether Amazon considers that stories like this, about how they treat their line workers, make me *vastly* less interested in considering them for programming jobs. I suspect I'm not alone in that...