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Could AI be used to replace striking workers?

The New York Times tech workers' strike raised significant labor concerns during a pivotal electoral period, prompting critical responses from both management and the AI sector.

The New York Times tech guild's election-week strike is over, without a contract

The NYT Tech Guild strategically timed their strike during the presidential election to maximize leverage for contract negotiations.
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'Can you imagine if our homepage went down?' New York Times tech workers go on strike before the election

Tech workers at the New York Times are striking for fair contracts, racial pay equity, job security, and hybrid work options, timed with the presidential election.

NYT tech workers on strike made their own versions of Wordle and Connections

The New York Times Tech Guild has launched its own game versions during a strike to maintain reader engagement without crossing picket lines.

Striking NYT tech workers made a custom Connections so you don't cross the picket line

Striking NYT tech workers have created a custom Connections puzzle to allow puzzle fans to engage while supporting the strike.

Tech workers at The New York Times go on strike

New York Times tech staffers strike just before Election Day, affecting their coverage of a tight presidential contest.

New York Times tech staffers could walk off the job on Election Day in ongoing contract spat

Tech workers at the New York Times threaten to strike on Election Day over stalled labor negotiations and unmet demands.

'Can you imagine if our homepage went down?' New York Times tech workers go on strike before the election

Tech workers at the New York Times are striking for fair contracts, racial pay equity, job security, and hybrid work options, timed with the presidential election.

NYT tech workers on strike made their own versions of Wordle and Connections

The New York Times Tech Guild has launched its own game versions during a strike to maintain reader engagement without crossing picket lines.

Striking NYT tech workers made a custom Connections so you don't cross the picket line

Striking NYT tech workers have created a custom Connections puzzle to allow puzzle fans to engage while supporting the strike.

Tech workers at The New York Times go on strike

New York Times tech staffers strike just before Election Day, affecting their coverage of a tight presidential contest.

New York Times tech staffers could walk off the job on Election Day in ongoing contract spat

Tech workers at the New York Times threaten to strike on Election Day over stalled labor negotiations and unmet demands.
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Trump is planning a crackdown on legal immigration, too

Trump aims for mass deportations while his allies push for significant cuts to legal immigration.

NYC vs. Texas? Actually, they're both top destinations for tech talent right now

Austin is the fastest-growing city for tech talent in the U.S.
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Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government

Google employees protest $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with Israeli government.

TechCrunch+ roundup: Big Data's cloud backlash, CVC pitch tips, de-risking hardware startups

For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running.At one of my first startup jobs, I walked in one day to find two sleeping co-workers who'd spent the night configuring servers at a co-locating facility 60 miles away.Soon after, when I worked at a publicly-traded company, our on-prem data center was resilient enough to operate through a moderate earthquake.

Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government

Google employees protest $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with Israeli government.

TechCrunch+ roundup: Big Data's cloud backlash, CVC pitch tips, de-risking hardware startups

For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running.At one of my first startup jobs, I walked in one day to find two sleeping co-workers who'd spent the night configuring servers at a co-locating facility 60 miles away.Soon after, when I worked at a publicly-traded company, our on-prem data center was resilient enough to operate through a moderate earthquake.
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Monk's Kettle to move to Oakland after 16 years in the Mission

San Francisco's loss benefits Oakland as Monk's Kettle relocates to Rockridge for a larger space and better neighborhood.
Changes in customer behavior, influx of tech workers, and online socialization have influenced Monk's Kettle relocation decision.

Fresh tech layoffs erase 400 more Bay Area jobs, overall total hits 20,000

PALO ALTO Tech companies have revealed plans to erase about 400 more jobs in the Bay Area, fresh waves of cutbacks that bring the current crop of tech and biotech layoffs in the region to a grim milestone of 20,000.SAP America, Twilio and ContextLogic are among the tech companies that have posted newly disclosed intentions to trim their workforces in a big way.

Monk's Kettle to move to Oakland after 16 years in the Mission

San Francisco's loss benefits Oakland as Monk's Kettle relocates to Rockridge for a larger space and better neighborhood.
Changes in customer behavior, influx of tech workers, and online socialization have influenced Monk's Kettle relocation decision.

Fresh tech layoffs erase 400 more Bay Area jobs, overall total hits 20,000

PALO ALTO Tech companies have revealed plans to erase about 400 more jobs in the Bay Area, fresh waves of cutbacks that bring the current crop of tech and biotech layoffs in the region to a grim milestone of 20,000.SAP America, Twilio and ContextLogic are among the tech companies that have posted newly disclosed intentions to trim their workforces in a big way.
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Why People Don't Aspire To Be Managers In Today's Workforce

Tech workers are increasingly not interested in pursuing managerial roles due to the trade-offs and added stress.
Managers have faced numerous challenges during the pandemic, including coordinating remote work, navigating hiring battles, and potential layoffs.

Return to the office or hybrid work? Here's what's happening next

Image: Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Tech analyst Gartner forecasts that 51% of US knowledge workers will work under hybrid arrangements by the end of 2023 and 20% will be fully remote.The blend of hybrid and fully remote knowledge workers will be more pronounced in the US than the rest of the world, which on average should see 39% of knowledge workers in hybrid work and 9% fully remote.

Why People Don't Aspire To Be Managers In Today's Workforce

Tech workers are increasingly not interested in pursuing managerial roles due to the trade-offs and added stress.
Managers have faced numerous challenges during the pandemic, including coordinating remote work, navigating hiring battles, and potential layoffs.

Return to the office or hybrid work? Here's what's happening next

Image: Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Tech analyst Gartner forecasts that 51% of US knowledge workers will work under hybrid arrangements by the end of 2023 and 20% will be fully remote.The blend of hybrid and fully remote knowledge workers will be more pronounced in the US than the rest of the world, which on average should see 39% of knowledge workers in hybrid work and 9% fully remote.
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Springboard's Design Learning Hub: A Review

The world of UX/UI design can be daunting, and knowing where to start if you're studying on your own is the first hurdle.It doesn't help that there are an overwhelming number of beginner resources, either.People considering a career in UX/UI design can find blogs, podcasts, tutorials, and free courses galore, yet there's no easy way to piece all of that information together to form a single cohesive career path.

Amazon Cuts Jobs From Its Strongest Segments: Here's What It Means for the Stock | The Motley Fool

To put it lightly, the technology sector is going through a rough patch at the moment.Tough economic conditions have slowed down companies' growth rates over the last 18 months, which means they've had to carefully manage costs.That, unfortunately, has led to mass layoffs across the industry.According to Layoffs.fyi, the tech sector slashed 161,411 jobs in 2022.

200+ artists open 'SKY' Saturday at The Drawing Room

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox."This is going to be insane," says Drawing Room founder Renée DeCarlo of tomorrow's opening reception for "SKY," the latest exhibit in the soaring 5,700 square foot gallery at 780 Valencia Street.

Beyond the Pale: Where the conversation's as good as the fade

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Skin fades, gentleman's cuts, ring lights and a fridge full of beer: Bay Area culture converges with the modern at Beyond the Pale Barbershop on 16th and Guerrero.A barbershop is "a place to kick it," says owner Anthony Larrasquitu, aka LQ to friends, who believes "the conversation needs to be as good as the haircut."

Tech Workers Admit to Working 3-4 Hours a Day: How?

Recently, there has been a lot of debate over working hours among people who have jobs.The debate mentions how some companies exploit their employees and make them work for long hours.For example, many Amazon employees have said on record that they work more than 10 hours a day.However, some tech workers claim that they work for four hours a day.

They Lost Their Jobs, Then Went Viral on TikTok

Bailey Harris, 25, worked as a recruiter for a big tech company for more than a year and a half before she was laid off in January.After the initial shock wore off, she decided to tell her story three days later on TikTok.I was never really worried about layoffs, she said in the video, which she recorded from a car.

Springboard's Design Learning Hub: A Review

The world of UX/UI design can be daunting, and knowing where to start if you're studying on your own is the first hurdle.It doesn't help that there are an overwhelming number of beginner resources, either.People considering a career in UX/UI design can find blogs, podcasts, tutorials, and free courses galore, yet there's no easy way to piece all of that information together to form a single cohesive career path.

Amazon Cuts Jobs From Its Strongest Segments: Here's What It Means for the Stock | The Motley Fool

To put it lightly, the technology sector is going through a rough patch at the moment.Tough economic conditions have slowed down companies' growth rates over the last 18 months, which means they've had to carefully manage costs.That, unfortunately, has led to mass layoffs across the industry.According to Layoffs.fyi, the tech sector slashed 161,411 jobs in 2022.

200+ artists open 'SKY' Saturday at The Drawing Room

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox."This is going to be insane," says Drawing Room founder Renée DeCarlo of tomorrow's opening reception for "SKY," the latest exhibit in the soaring 5,700 square foot gallery at 780 Valencia Street.

Beyond the Pale: Where the conversation's as good as the fade

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Skin fades, gentleman's cuts, ring lights and a fridge full of beer: Bay Area culture converges with the modern at Beyond the Pale Barbershop on 16th and Guerrero.A barbershop is "a place to kick it," says owner Anthony Larrasquitu, aka LQ to friends, who believes "the conversation needs to be as good as the haircut."

Tech Workers Admit to Working 3-4 Hours a Day: How?

Recently, there has been a lot of debate over working hours among people who have jobs.The debate mentions how some companies exploit their employees and make them work for long hours.For example, many Amazon employees have said on record that they work more than 10 hours a day.However, some tech workers claim that they work for four hours a day.

They Lost Their Jobs, Then Went Viral on TikTok

Bailey Harris, 25, worked as a recruiter for a big tech company for more than a year and a half before she was laid off in January.After the initial shock wore off, she decided to tell her story three days later on TikTok.I was never really worried about layoffs, she said in the video, which she recorded from a car.
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Amazon Plans to Lay Off Another 9,000 Employees

Amazon plans to lay off 9,000 corporate and tech workers by the end of April, adding to the 18,000 roles it already cut late last year and this January, Andy Jassy, the company's chief executive, said in a note to employees on Monday.The new layoffs, which amount to roughly 3 percent of its corporate work force, will target workers in some of Amazon's most profitable divisions, which had previously been spared, including Amazon's cloud computing business and its advertising operations.

New downtown San Jose hotel near Google village starts with demolition

Keystone, a 176-unit Marriott TownePlace Suites hotel at 491, 493 and 497 West San Carlos Street and 270 Josefa Street in downtown San Jose, concept.SAN JOSE A project to build a new downtown San Jose hotel has officially gotten underway with demolition work for the 176-room lodging complex that would sprout near the footprint of Google's proposed transit village.

Nearly a Third of White-Collar Workers Have Tried ChatGPT or Other AI Programs, According to a New Survey

Some early adopters are already experimenting with the generative AI program ChatGPT at the office.In seconds, consultants are conjuring decks and memos, marketers are cranking out fresh copy and software engineers are debugging code.Almost 30% of the nearly 4,500 professionals surveyed this month by Fishbowl, a social platform owned by employer review site Glassdoor, said that they've already used OpenAI's ChatGPT or another artificial intelligence program in their work.

Amazon Plans to Lay Off Another 9,000 Employees

Amazon plans to lay off 9,000 corporate and tech workers by the end of April, adding to the 18,000 roles it already cut late last year and this January, Andy Jassy, the company's chief executive, said in a note to employees on Monday.The new layoffs, which amount to roughly 3 percent of its corporate work force, will target workers in some of Amazon's most profitable divisions, which had previously been spared, including Amazon's cloud computing business and its advertising operations.

New downtown San Jose hotel near Google village starts with demolition

Keystone, a 176-unit Marriott TownePlace Suites hotel at 491, 493 and 497 West San Carlos Street and 270 Josefa Street in downtown San Jose, concept.SAN JOSE A project to build a new downtown San Jose hotel has officially gotten underway with demolition work for the 176-room lodging complex that would sprout near the footprint of Google's proposed transit village.

Nearly a Third of White-Collar Workers Have Tried ChatGPT or Other AI Programs, According to a New Survey

Some early adopters are already experimenting with the generative AI program ChatGPT at the office.In seconds, consultants are conjuring decks and memos, marketers are cranking out fresh copy and software engineers are debugging code.Almost 30% of the nearly 4,500 professionals surveyed this month by Fishbowl, a social platform owned by employer review site Glassdoor, said that they've already used OpenAI's ChatGPT or another artificial intelligence program in their work.
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Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT

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After catching snippets of text generated by OpenAI's powerful ChatGPT tool that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking anything else to the algorithm.According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider, an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had "already seen instances" of text generated by ChatGPT that "closely" resembled internal company data.

Google salvages and adapts older parts of downtown San Jose village

Sunlite Bakery Bread Depot building at 145 South Montgomery Street in downtown San Jose, entrance.(Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) SAN JOSE Google has pushed ahead with efforts to salvage parts of older buildings as well as rescue complete historic structures that are within the footprint of the search giant's downtown San Jose transit village.

FTC Unveils New Rule Banning Companies From Using Noncompete Clauses

The agency estimates that the rule will raise wages by a collective $300 billion annually.FTC Commissioner nominee Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee nomination hearing on April 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Graeme Jennings-Pool / Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Thursday that it has proposed a sweeping new rule that would bar employers from imposing noncompete clauses on workers, a move that could have major benefits for tens millions of workers across the U.S.
The FTC said that employers' use of noncompete clauses, which typically prohibit workers from moving jobs to competitors within certain time frames, is "​​a widespread and often exploitative practice."

Half of Canadian workers will job hunt in 2023 for better pay and perks, according to poll | CBC News

Half of Canadian workers plan to look for a new job in 2023, a nearly twofold increase from just a year ago, according to a new poll by recruitment firm Robert Half.The survey conducted in the fall found 50 per cent of respondents indicated they planned to search for a new job in the next six months.

The Great Resignation is back: Tech industry workers are underpaid, overworked, and fed up - and they're ready to quit all over again

More people are planning to change jobs now than during the Great Resignation of 2022, with tech workers high on the list, driven by factors beyond dissatisfaction.

More than 1,000 students pledge not to work at Google and Amazon due to Project Nimbus

NOTA coalition demanding big tech companies to end contracts with Israeli government.
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