Amazon: report by international trade union exposes impact of surveillance technology on workers’ health Engagement UNI Global Union, the international union federation, has published a report based on a survey of 2,000 employees – from eight countries – at US e-commerce giant Amazon. Published on 19 January,…
Free Digital tools : UK start-up ‘predicts’ employee resignations Engagement Oxford-based visual data management start-up, Zegami, has just launched a new tool for employers that will enable them to predict which employees are most likely to resign from their jobs.…
China: DingDing, the collaborative platform that manages workers Engagement Few workers in China will be unaware of the existence of DingDing, the application used for organisation and communication within companies. Launched in 2014, the application has grown to become the number one workplace social network in the world. It is mainly used in China, where it has been downloaded more than 400,000 times using the Huawei Store. Amid the 996 scandal (see article n°11113), which has shed a light on the intensive working hours in China’s technology industry, there are ethical questions surrounding DingDing’s use, raised by Chinese workers in online forums. In particular, they highlight the enhanced monitoring capabilities it grants managers, as well as the fact the app can even replace such staff.
United Kingdom: app allows employees to get paid when they want Comp and Ben @en Engagement Launched in January 2018, the Wagestream application allows employees to receive a percentage of their earned wages when they want, before their routine pay date. The creators of the application say that, in February 2019, more than 40,000 people in the UK had access to the so-called ‘Get-Paid-As-You-Go’ system. Its aim is to alleviate end-of-the-month stress for workers and to provide support for when they take a financial hit, at a time when monthly payment of wages is commonplace. These are plus points that nonetheless do not convince the entire sphere of human resources.
Italy: the ‘Maternity as a Master’ start-up is now both attracting fathers and looking to expand abroad Diversity Engagement While company-based parenting practices are burgeoning, the unusual ‘Maternity as a Master’ (MaaM) training program aims to transpose competences that parents acquire during parenthood over to the workplace. The digital platform that was launched two years ago now include twenty-five Italian client companies (including UniCredit, Poste Italiane, Enel, Luxottica and subsidiaries of various multinationals such as Ikea and Coca-Cola) and approximately 2,000 participants. The MaaM start-up is seeking a capital injection to expand growth.
