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Episode: The Precarity of Tech’s Shadow Workforce
Pub date: 2022-04-01
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Earlier this year, a nonprofit organisation called the TechEquity Collaborative published an investigation into the 'shadow workforce' that powers many tech firms. This episode discusses the report which describes a range of challenging conditions and inequities, particularly relative to the lavish pay and perks for full time employees of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon
Earlier this year, a nonprofit organization called the TechEquity Collaborative released the results of its Contract Worker Disparity Project, an investigation into the “shadow workforce” that powers many tech firms. The culmination of a year of research into the disparities in contract work, the report features survey data and first-hand accounts from contract workers in tech who describe range of challenging conditions and inequities, particularly relative to the lavish pay and perks that are offered to full time employees of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon.
To learn more about the key findings of the report, to hear more about what it's like to make your living in one of these roles, and to get a sense of the types of policy solutions that would address these inequities, we spoke with:
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