#unpaidlabor — Public Fediverse posts

Coywolf: Critical internet software is still maintained by just 1 or 2 people. “A new analysis from sheets.works, The people holding up the internet, reveals that in 2026, key pieces of software the internet depends on are still underfunded or don’t receive any public funding at all. Many of those critical components are kept alive and updated by individual contributors, and it’s often just one […]

I just learned about HireVue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HireVue), a platform used by large corporations to screen wage workers. Mercifully I haven't had to do one of these "interviews", which consist of submitting video responses to written questions in real time, along with "games", which entail solving #CAPTCHA-style puzzles in order to guarantee the collected data originates from a human being.

It's certainly a logical scheme, forcing the most disadvantaged job seekers to provide free training data, but this should clearly be illegal. It is no different from a prospective #Walmart employee being required to work a couple shifts, unpaid, as part of the "interview". It seems absurd to me that the Wikipedia page lists scandals related to #discrimination but nothing about coercing applicants into performing unpaid labor.

#AI #hiring #MachineLearning #USpol #HireView #crime #communism #socialism #anarchy #labor #WageTheft #interview #UnpaidLabor #WhiteCollarCrime

Unpaid Care: Domestic Labor and Familial Friction

A family in London is arguing because some siblings don't help with care for their elderly mother. The person doing the care feels tired and unfairly treated.

#FamilyConflict, #ElderCare, #SiblingRivalry, #LondonFamily, #UnpaidLabor

https://newsletter.tf/siblings-argue-over-elder-care-costs-london/

One sister is planning all the travel for her mother's birthday trip, while three other siblings are not helping at all. This is causing a big family fight.

#FamilyConflict, #ElderCare, #SiblingRivalry, #LondonFamily, #UnpaidLabor
https://newsletter.tf/siblings-argue-over-elder-care-costs-london/

Mortals' Day (US) soon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0upXUvA5m8
Meowths' Ur Day!!

#mother #parent #parenting #mothers #MothersDay #mom #ma #mama #chick #woman #femme #lady #girl #unpaidLabor #unpaid #UnpaidWork #care #CareWork #CareLabor #housework #home #social #TradWife #Iguess #idfk

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-professionals/2026/01/compensating-presenters

#CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-professionals/2026/01/compensating-presenters

#CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem.

#CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation #post

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-professionals/2026/01/compensating-presenters

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem.

#CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-professionals/2026/01/compensating-presenters

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-professionals/2026/01/compensating-presenters

#CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation #newpost

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem.

#CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation #newpost

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-professionals/2026/01/compensating-presenters

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-professionals/2026/01/compensating-presenters

#newpost #CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation

Volunteering is a form of free labor.
#volunteering #labor #unpaidlabor #unpaidwork #volunteers

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-professionals/2026/01/compensating-presenters

#CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem.

#newpost #CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-professionals/2026/01/compensating-presenters

Last year I had a review article on strep throat published in _American_Family_Physician_. Today, I got email from Doximity letting me know that their #AI system had generated a summary about strep throat that cited my work, and asked me to review that summary for accuracy.

In other words: they're using a computer program to scrape my work, and they want me to double-check it out of the goodness of my heart.

I declined.

#UnpaidLabor

The whole open source idea feels like a trick by companies to get free labor from idealistic programmers.
#opensource #foss #freesoftware #softwareengineering #programming #programmers #freelabor #unpaidwork #unpaidlabor #exploitation

@ned

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/air-canada-strike-unpaid-labor

#AiRCanada #CUPE #flightattendants #LaborMovement #solidarity #strike #unwagedwork #unpaidlabor

Analysis-Air Canada labor deal may reshape pay for North American airline crews https://www.byteseu.com/1301850/ #AirCanada #AlaskaAirlines #AmericanAirlines #CabinCrews #Canada #ContractNegotiations #FlightAttendants #HourlyWage #UnitedAirlines #UnpaidLabor

Women in Estonia do billions of euros more in unpaid labor than men | News https://www.byteseu.com/758836/ #Estonia #praxis #UnpaidCareWork #UnpaidLabor #women

What is work?

I just read an article on Callaci’s book, ‘Wages for Housework’.

It is a great article (link at the end of the thread), but…

At one point she describes how, for a time, her son needed her to sit with him with one hand on his stomach for him to go to sleep. She later wondered, “Was that work?” And decided it felt wrong to call it such.

#Work #Housework #UnpaidLabor #UnpaidCarers #EmotionalLabor #Economics

Plutes gunna Plute
(A #plutocrat is a plute)

“Tonight I am going to speak on the #classstruggle and I am going to make it so plain that even a lawyer can understand it."- Bill Haywood #IWW

#SurplusValue is #unpaidlabor

#Profits = #wagetheft.

Capitalists - capos - have dollars they didn't work for, because the exploited work for dollars they do not get.

#BlameCapitalism #workingpoor #richpeoplesyachtmoney

I like my friend's simple, sweeping policy regarding the requests we're bombarded with after buying anything online. #UnpaidLabor

The unpaid job of a homemaker: How it’s affecting her mental health

Continue reading on Write A Catalyst » https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/the-unpaid-job-of-a-homemaker-da865dca5547?source=rss------mentalhealth-5&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MentalHealth #Homemaker #UnpaidLabor #WomenEmpowerment #MentalHealthAwareness

10 Unpaid work is finally going to be paid

24 Good Reasons Why We Need A Universal Basic Income

A lot of the work that is done today takes place outside the realm of wage labor and is very often not paid at all.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJQdJLV0OkOE4L533kzL-iG_7fXrxNVZG

Now also as podcast:
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7130769

#universalbasicincome #UBI #grundeinkommen #unpaidlabor #carework

https://andas.cc/s/articles/a00012-24-good-reasons-why-we-need-ubi.html

I see #bluesky is continuing its crusade to be a centralized, corporate-controlled social media network without actually doing any of the work.

Via @AAKL

#socialmedia #unpaidlabor #enshittification

@MarvClowder ... 😁 I just watched a film that had a cover of Cash's song over the end credits.

"Damsel" was an odd and surprising fairytale, but also a strangely satisfying feminist allegory for a headline I saw last week:
"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women."
(see link)

Also: Millie Bobby Brown, Robin Wright, Angela Bassett :-)
Edit: I forgot Shohreh Aghdashloo! ❤

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/other-countries-have-social-safety
#feminism #unpaidLabor #sacrificesWeMake
/cc @OldAintDead

New blog post🙂
Fertility and the Labor of Care
#population #carework #unpaidlabor #gender #blog #amwriting #writing
https://feministpassion.blogspot.com/2023/12/fertility-and-labor-of-care.html

In its wisdom, #SUNY central has apparently decided that allowing an instructor to manage multiple sections of the same course from one LMS shell is a violation of #FERPA

So here I am coding and entering grades and fighting with #brightspace to perfectly synchronize my two intro #statistics courses.

I would like to have a conversation with whatever SUNY lawyers made this ridiculous decision, with a FERPA representative on conference call.

#unpaidlabor #faculty #highered #grading #waste

Had the gender pay gap in the US continued to close by 1980s’ one percentage point per year, it would have reached parity by 2017. Instead, the introduction of family leave policies during the 1990s—furthering gender roles according to which women take on more of the unpaid domestic labor—lowered the one percentage point per year to 0.03. A case of unequal gender roles derailing the work with unequal pay. #FeministFriday #GenderPayGap #GenderRoles #GenderEquality #MotherhoodPenalty #UnpaidLabor

Women's unpaid labor provides a cost saving opportunity (gift article)
#UnpaidLabor #WomensWork #Healthcare #GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/health/community-health-worker-pay.html?unlocked_article_code=4-8N5Pq5JdDt2BdYciYWANaCVTQqQq9UNOXCJ47ha5EPO3H6ZsCBPQdAnqHU_W7dQIg80Ro1GH7j0UaiOIP_lgQeAQmMxU2QXwIIWdINlklBWaUoyctA29f3E4zRuTIxgJoUCkhWA2yuryjhOt0MQtollEKiRwcCjaO-Jqpie039ADQhx6GH3L7LbC1pTq72g2aADP84f2zwOzTTYO7Nl_esShFRKBTZBlGYWWiH6HTrrCmOqwuncMuWZTv2w26fRnkpgla20Hxi_MSLXzrXeMHNFEhnC_ZSLsUXzYrT7kMVAeV3Hah_SL4z_LNaIBuQxQK3qct62pga8OH5B9jKgJaTf9k&smid=url-share

@researchbuzz Probably interesting and fun content, but shouldn't they pay people to transcribe archival material? #UnpaidLabor