Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Labour and Tech Editor at Rest of World
Labour x Tech editor @restofworld, covering how tech is transforming the way we work, especially outside the west. Ideas & tips: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
restofworld.org | Pedro Nakamura |Gayathri Vaidyanathan
The Amazonian municipality of Caracaraí has 22,000 inhabitants and an overworked pharmacist named Samuel Andrade. Andrade arrives at work at 8 a.m. to handle hundreds of prescriptions from free government clinics. Most days, he can’t get through all of them. He sometimes gets stuck for hours cross-checking drug databases to ensure nothing has been prescribed incorrectly by rural doctors. It is stressful work.
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2 weeks ago |
restofworld.org | Hsiuwen Liu |Michael Beltran |Gayathri Vaidyanathan
(This is the second of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Read the first story here.) The chip worker set off from a small coastal town in the Filipino province of Batangas with one suitcase, a backpack, and high hopes that, though she had to leave her two kids at home, her new job in Taiwan would help them afford a better lifestyle.
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2 weeks ago |
restofworld.org | Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights nonprofit based in New York. Audits of more than 150 startups and regional companies based in Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and India showed workplace surveillance is expanding in scale and sophistication, the researchers said.
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3 weeks ago |
restofworld.org | Michael Beltran |Hsiuwen Liu |Gayathri Vaidyanathan
(This is the first of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. The second story publishes next week.)A group of migrant tech workers from the Philippines sat for lunch at their shelter in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, and thanked God for the food and asked for protection from bad brokers.
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1 month ago |
restofworld.org | Michelle Kim |Gayathri Vaidyanathan
On sweltering summer days, chef Park Jeong-eun would cook makguksu, an earthy Korean dish made with buckwheat noodles steeped in a tangy, ice-cold broth, topped with spicy gochujang paste. Truck drivers would come from faraway places to the Munmak rest stop, on the highway in the mountainous Gangwon-do province in South Korea, to eat her food. That was until February 2024, when three robot chefs took over the kitchen at Munmak.
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