In more and more workplaces, important decisions aren't made by managers but by algorithms which have increasing levels of ...

To achieve efficiencies and reduce costs, more and more companies are managing their employees by algorithm. In this article, the authors present some of the first research findings concerning the ...

Pragma, an independent provider of multi-asset execution technology, has released a new generation of Panorama, the firm’s algorithmic management system (AMS). Panorama 2.0 provides Pragma’s global ...

Aislinn Kelly-Lyth, formerly a researcher at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford, works at Blackstone Chambers in London. M. Six Silberman and Halefom Abraha are postdoctoral ...

While the world holds its breath to see if the US tech industry can bring about human-level artificial intelligence — and therefore completely rewrite the social contract and economy — experts are ...

I've been toying with a new business plan recently-an online repository for new three-letter acronyms (TLAs) and four-letter extended acronyms (FLEAs). Every time a technologist, marketer or ...

Gig economy workers are being surveilled, profiled and managed by their employers using “unfair and opaque” algorithmic systems, and existing employment and data protection laws largely fail to ...

From the bartender who is always having their hours scheduled in the most erratic and unhelpful way possible by an app called “Harvest” or “ZoomShift,” to the nurse harangued by a platform for ...

Algorithms are being deployed to automate managerial tasks in an increasingly wide variety of industries and settings. Amazon, Uber, and UPS, for example, use them to oversee the movements and ...