There are better ways to help people succeed.

In a work context, surveillance and data collection raise issues that go beyond privacy concerns based on individual rights

Two employees who helped organize a walkout of thousands of workers say they've either been demoted or been told to drop concerns about ethics.

On subtle privilege associated with knowing how (human) systems work and optimizing for the social/organizational status quo.

A Facebook engineering manager left the company earlier this month after being harassed by her colleagues for expressing criticism.

Avoid open-ended questions.

As the sun set in Charlottesville, Virginia, two days after a white supremacist rammed his car into a group of demonstrators, killing Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman, I ducked out of an event hosted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I ran past a statue of Robert E. Lee that, the previous day, had […]

People’s personal lives always show up on their work computers.

In an agony-aunt format.

"The Department of Monumental Expectations & Minute Allocations." LOL I will probably use that for the rest of my life now...

Harvard Business School invented the “leadership” industry—and produced a generation of corporate monsters. No wonder Sandberg, one of the school’s most prominent graduates, lacks a functioning moral compass.

Facebook “has a black people problem,” according to Mark Luckie, a now-former manager of partnerships at Facebook. Luckie, whose last day at Facebook was earlier this month, just posted an internal memo he sent to his colleagues that argues Facebook is failing its black employees, as well as its black users. At Facebook, Luckie served as strategic […]

People cannot be equal participants in environments where they are subject to wildly unequal risk. People cannot be equal participants in environments where they are unequally threatened.

Tech companies ignore labor history at their own peril

Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination

In 2015, a demographic survey of the staff of North American art museums conducted by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and Ithaka S+R found that the staff composition of museums in the United States is not remotely representative of the country’s population....In 2015, a demographic survey of the staff of North American art museums conducted by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and Ithaka S+R found that the staff composition of museums in the United States is not remotely representative of the country’s population....In response to our report, museum directors, curators, conservators, professional organizations, and foundations have come forward to confront the challenge and launch programs that seek to address its many dimensions. To shine a light on fruitful approaches to this work, the Mellon Foundation partnered again with Ithaka S+R and AAMD to conduct a series of case studies of AAMD members to analyze how these museums have succeeded in achieving relatively robust demographic diversity among staff.

Six women computer scientists from the University of Washington respond to an essay about why women don’t pursue computer science as often as men.

It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. I work at a software company and our office is fairly small (14 people, only two of whom are female). I have

Employee surveillance was for some while the Cinderella sister of surveillance studies: neither as outright shocking to citizens as state surveillance in the po