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What Worker-Friendly Product Design Looks Like Part I: Glovo
By Mercy Mangeni “It is interesting that people will often complain about the quality of service they receive from platform-based workers without ever having an understanding of the user interface (UI) from the perspective of the service provider, to understand how...
Year 2 of the Jobtech Alliance: Walking, Running, and Jumping
By Chris Maclay and Michelle Hassan In last month’s post, Chris talked about his 2 year-old son, Callum, and his first year of shouting. A critical skill in the first year of life, but that’s increasingly not enough (and ‘not cool’) in toddler years. Likewise, he...
The year of shouting
By Chris Maclay I have a kid called Callum. He had his second birthday last month. He’s a pretty great kid. He’s into helicopters, trucks, and ice cream. I’ll spare you photos (for now). You know what else is due its birthday next month? The Jobtech Alliance. We...
What do jobtech platforms do if there are no jobs?
By Chris Maclay. This also heavily references Li Jin’s Unbundling Work from Employment article, which is worth a read in itself. Apologies for the clickbait title. I don’t want to create fear when everyone is already losing it about a slowing...