GIG ECONOMY
Issue #410
18 Aug 2024
Insightful excerpt from the book Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers, by the author Hatim Rahman himself on how the gig economy workers are measured, qualified and sorted by algorithm. The metaphor of being in an invisible cage is resonant, yet what is vision this if not the manifestation of a data driven management culture, in a skill based organisation? We might have cause to prefer human bias in the end.