{"id":44893,"date":"2014-09-03T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/robo-schedules.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:45:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:45:24","slug":"robo-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/robo-schedules.html","title":{"rendered":"Robo-schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember in those halcyon days when I worked at a minimum wage job at Burger King. In those days the workers were almost all students or ex-students, and the boss would set up a fairly regular schedule, and if he wanted you to fill a different time slot, he'd ask.<\/p>\n

Today, minimum wage jobs are rare as hen's teeth, occupied not by students but by retirees, single parents, people who are working two or three part-time positions. Summer teenage employment is way down because the jobs they used to take — like my Burger King hitch — are latched onto by people trying to put food on the table, not saving to buy a car stereo.<\/p>\n

Which makes these sort of shift optimization systems particularly pernicious, because they make stability and certainty a thing of the past, turn employees into resource pegs to be auto-allocated to the next hole, and make it nigh-impossible to arrange for child care, or a second job, or other possible necessities (with knock-on effects for family and friends).<\/p>\n

In a relatively sane job market, that sort of policy would reach a balance point pretty quickly, with folk who find it problematic going out to find another, hopefully better position. With high unemployment, though, people don't necessarily have that choice.<\/p>\n

Kudos to Starbucks for adjusting their policies. It would be nice, though to see some stability and lack of uncertainty (you know, those things we keep hearing are necessary for "job creators" to prosper and grow) extend to more workers as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\nEmployers Now Making It Impossible to Be a Poor Working Mom
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\nJodi Kantor published a devastating expose in the New York Times this week, detailing the latest fresh hell visited upon low wage workers by their corporate bosses: erratic work schedules created by “software that choreographs workers in precise, intricate ballets, using sales patterns and other data” to figure out how…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I remember in those halcyon days when I worked at a minimum wage job at Burger King. In those days the workers were almost all students or ex-students, and the boss would set up a fairly regular schedule, and if he wanted you to fill a different time slot, he'd ask. 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