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Zerosquare (./771) :

Bullshit jobsFrance CultureIls sont jeunes et ont débarqué dans le monde du travail en découvrant l'enfer de ce que l'on appelle les "bullshit jobs". Remplir des tableaux Excel, démarcher des clients à longueur de journée ou exécuter des tâches aux noms anglicisés, sans même comprendre ce qu'on leur demandait. [...]

Le tout est intéressant, mais si vous n'avez pas le temps d'écouter en entier, je vous recommande l'anecdote à 9:22 ^^

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China's tech workers pushed to limits by surveillance softwareNikkei AsiaA vicious cycle of monitoring and overwork is fueling productivity -- and backlash

Most of his hours were spent on a piece of surveillance software called DiSanZhiYan, or "Third Eye." The system was installed on the laptop of every colleague at his company to track their screens in real time, recording their chats, their browsing activity and every document edit they made.

Working from their floor in a downtown high-rise, the startup's hundreds of employees were constantly, uncomfortably aware of being under Third Eye's intent gaze.

The software would also automatically flag "suspicious behavior" such as visiting job-search sites or video streaming platforms. "Efficiency" reports would be generated weekly, summarizing their time spent by website and application.

"Bosses would check the reports regularly," Wang said. Farther down the line, that could skew workers' prospects for promotions and pay rises. They could also be used as evidence when the company looked to fire certain people, he added.

Even Wang himself was not exempt. High-definition surveillance cameras were installed around the floor, including in his office, and a receptionist would check the footage every day to monitor how long each employee spent on their lunch break, he said.

Last year, a Chinese subsidiary of Japanese camera maker Canon, Canon Information Technology in Beijing, unveiled a new workspace management system that only allows smiling employees to enter the office and book conference rooms. Using so-called "smile recognition" technology, Canon said the system intended to bring more cheerfulness to office in the post-pandemic era.

Zhongduantong, a Beijing-based software company, developed a work reporting mobile application that requires workers to check in at designated locations within a certain time frame and upload a picture of the surrounding environment as proof through the app.

The use of such real-time tracking apps led to the 200 yuan ($31) fine of a sales manager in the northern city of Shenyang, who was found to be visiting a housing fund center for personal matters during their lunch break, Xinhua News Agency reported in 2018. In another case, the positioning was so accurate that an employee in Shanxi Province was punished for browsing Weibo for 10 minutes in a company toilet, according to the same Xinhua report.

Zerosquare (./791) :
Ouaip'. Le truc c'est qu'il y a des chances que ce genre de pratiques se généralisent ailleurs.

We tested AI interview tools. Here’s what we found.
Our candidate completed a phone interview with Curious Thing. She first did a regular job interview and received a 8.5 out of 9 for English competency. In a second try, the automated interviewer asked the same questions, and she responded to each by reading the Wikipedia entry for psychometrics in German.

Yet Curious Thing awarded her a 6 out of 9 for English competency. She completed the interview again and received the same score.

She read the same Wikipedia entry aloud in German. The algorithm not only returned a personality assessment, but it also predicted our candidate to be a 73% match for the fake job, putting her in the top half of all the applicants we had asked to apply.

MyInterview provides hiring managers with a transcript of their interviews. When we inspected our candidate’s transcript, we found that the system interpreted her German words as English words. But the transcript didn’t make any sense.

Instead of scoring our candidate on the content of her answers, the algorithm pulled personality traits from her voice, says Clayton Donnelly, an industrial and organizational psychologist working with MyInterview.

Tiens, je vois passer ça et je vais parler plus en détail de ma dernière expérience en tant qu'analyste d'exploitation en Centre-Val-de-Loire ou comment « bien définir ses besoins, c'est utile pour tout le monde ». (1/21) https://t.co/glQ75maTNK

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