contractors
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Facebook’s Contractors Say the Company Is Risking Their Lives To Turn A Pandemic Profit
In May of 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic fully underway, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would allow most of its employees to continue working from home until at least the end of the year in an effort to “contain the spread of Covid-19 so we can keep our communities safe and get…
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Google, Facebook Contractors Still Expected On Site Amid Outbreak While Full-Time Staff Works Remote
The tumultuous divide between full-time staff and contract workers at Facebook and Google has come to a head recently, with this distinction now purportedly determining who deserves to work from home amid an ongoing global pandemic.
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Apple Says Only In-House Employees Will Listen To Siri Recordings As 300 Contractors Are Reportedly Laid Off
Following public outcry over workers listening to audio captured by voice assistants, Apple announced on Thursday that it would no longer relegate the task of listening to Siri recordings to contractors, and instead, only Apple employees would review these audio clips. As a result, hundreds of contractors have reportedly lost their jobs.
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Facebook Caves, Increases Salaries And Benefits For Contractors
After years of critical coverage citing the emotional distress experienced by Facebook’s contractors, particularly those who review often upsetting and violent content on the platform day in and day out, the Menlo Park on Monday firm announced a number of deal-sweeteners for this vulnerable workforce.