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> Someone needs to tell these programmers/marketers that there's a wee factor called "humanity" that they need to use when creating their algorithms What have
by pilsetnieks 12y ago
> Someone needs to tell these programmers/marketers that there's a wee factor called "humanity" that they need to use when creating their algorithms
What have programmers, marketers, and algorithms to do with this, since you explicitly pointed them out?
- mattlutze 12y agoveb is referring to this paragraph from the beginning of the article: " Working people who live below the poverty line are particularly afraid to say no to these unusual schedules. They may have no one to say no to, anyway—those schedules might have been created by computers, rather than human managers, in the hopes of saving a corporation money. Many companies now use data and algorithms to schedule employees so fewer hours will be spent sitting around. The software doesn’t care if a shift falls in the middle of the night, or that it might tear a big hole in an employee’s family life."