A token just for her. Beethoven it is for the. Beethoven is for costs. Is for the good of the book beethoven 2020 but 250th anniversary here on deal there. A drop off in an hour. Of algorithms organize my work days and rate my performance what does that mean for me digital control when apps tell you how to do your job our topic today on shimmed. Brave new digital workspace normal fixed hours working from the comfort of home and everything you need at your fingertips through your smartphone visualization has already greatly shaped the workforce especially in the Service Industry nearly half of the employees worldwide work in this sector in germany they make up 3 quarters what is it like to receive assignments from we asked by career. Exercising. Receiving job requests by meeting friends and getting paid for it all but the life of a by korea may not be quite as great as companies would. Only contract employees have a guaranteed income to. Get their assignments through. And algorithm decides how much they will. Let algorithms only consider performance criteria such as speed position and reliability they dont care about the human being behind the data self employed under these conditions of the so called economy. Commission. In the working conditions of the digital age. People who work these gigs dont necessarily decide when and where they do it. Instead the platform assigns them certain jobs doesnt. Quite often they find themselves at the mercy of the opposite of. As if they were waiting for bread crumbs that the sites algorithm tosses out. Constantly waiting for the next job is nerve wracking and emotional. In germany unions and politicians are raising the. New developments in Digital Technology were seeing new forms of exploitation and precarity by couriers for example theyve gone without any real social safety net for a long time. Doesnt sound easy but i dont want to be by korea so thats. Actually thats a bit shortsighted so called digital capitalism as broad radical changes to our working lives and is affecting more and more people according to. And he should know hes been working in the sector for 20 years and has written 2 books on the subject. Digital capitalism is a historical phase of capitalism in which algorithms and data take on the role that machines and resources used to play with. In this digital capitalism the data corporations that specialize in data extraction dominate the market. These businesses cloak themselves as platforms. In the future experts predict that fewer workers will receive contract position googles already proving them right not even half of the employees under contract indicate economy many work in precarious circumstances in theory whenever and wherever they want but even if theyre independent on paper they may still be closely monitored one example amazons warehouse work is known as pick their work day is determined by digital. Warehouse workers in particular are monitored very very closely. Device they carry around with them watches every step they make and gives them a clear instructions on where to go in the literal sense of the term which optimal paths to walk. Up to its reminiscent of the Assembly Line days. People were reduced to performing single simple ideal movements of. That. Digital technology to optimize those workflows must be every employee is dream but they could also use these programs to identify optimal employees and these forms of digital control limited to koori is and where his work has algorithmic Management Systems as they called a showing up in other sectors as well software tells me when its time for a break to give my back a rest sounds great and if it helps if they have not hierarchy is all the better on the other hand it will. Fall months in detail and how does that affect me mr dahl difference is often the physical boss disappears and is replaced by Digital Technologies that are invisible to keep a far closer watch these mathematical theorem. These mathematical see in these mathematical theorems about a group of. Imagine i had a computer counting how much expensive studio time might cost now thats total digital control what algorithms can count however a social skills to measure those you simply need to ask your employees Rating Systems in which work is evaluated one another becoming more common place they were inspired by the customer Rating Systems used to from most major internet that phones. I produce a brought me a cup of coffee today. Would i again. Underline Fashion Retail is the land developed design no Rating System based on co worker feedback in order to digitally track the worst performance of the companys 5000 some employees Union Friendly foundation examines this system this study shows that the sensation of total surveillance it creates damage to working environments and yes more and more companies are favoring digital monitoring and workers with flexible availability under these circumstances can hardly defend their interests. With revealing with the kind of digital early capitalism its as if new digital factories were popping up theres no regulation thats the kind of thing so we need a process involving labor struggles and theyre already happening. For example google employees are trying to organize the unions they say the company has been blocking them and some even reports having been sucked. But the Company Denies this. I actually recognize many developments in this digital platform economy that we know from the history of the Workers Movement as of course the over drivers today are organized very differently than i think facebook groups and they call wildcat strikes theyre kind of postmodern Union Movement and i think thats a positive development or i definitely welcome it. So theres still hope but many of these checks and balances already part of labor law at least in germany the large into that corporations are not too happy about them before tech giants. Facebook and amazon or jaffa operate worldwide and set themselves above National Regulation in most countries they can avoid taxes and use the monopoly is to their advantage National DataProtection Laws a just a nuisance that. And they dont like taking responsibility for what happens on this site they have a watertight defense is theyve insisted that this just in to the media is all that this neutral market places of course thats not really the case says. Special about these platforms is that the ones who set them up are the rulers there they decide the rules and theyre also the ones active in these markets they themselves created software. So. For example amazon has provider on the marketplace that it has created worldwide. So its not just the referee it is the same time its also a player. There are 2 main reasons why the gaffa big 4 dominate the markets one is the Network Effect that is as services usefulness increases disproportionately with the number of but disciplines the more the merrier then theres the feedback effect the bigger the site the more data it can collect to optimize that system and that makes the site even more attractive to uses google and co hugely successful in securing their monopolies according to major Silicon Valley investor peeta deal competition is full news this. Theres just no way around digital capitalists is there. In india Small Businesses are fighting back against amazon indias powerful Shopkeepers Union has been trying to block amazons entry into their 1000000000 euro markets with protests as well as legal and Political Action the battles yet to be decided. Meanwhile china simply the tech giant out with its enormous file will. Have been pursuing quite a radical protectionism and i have to say very successfully. In the Worlds Largest domestic market the chinese counterparts to Silicon Valleys digital corporations have been a huge success and have gathered an immense number of users. So they get this algorithmic feedback effect in a very pronounced way. The chinese model is pushing digital capitalism very hard in its vast market. Was. The overwhelming power of big multinational tech firms hold also challenges nation states western politicians are still looking for the right approach and the e. U. Has imposed steep anti trust penalties american politicians like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders are even calling for the internet tech giants to be broken up. Thats a lofty promise and by the way 7 of the 10 most highly valued corporations Worldwide Tech firms Apple Microsoft alphabet amazon facebook the chinese Ecommerce Group alibaba and tencent which owns. The market dominance seems unshakeable except for apple and microsoft all these companies have been around for less than 25 years in just a short time theyve become the biggest players in the world market and their main resources i intended they include user data and algorithms. But would he drearily change anything if he broke up logic operations well then wouldnt you players just take over the market and wed be back where we stop it is a platform isnt from law or merely these platforms or markets but since theyre part of our Digital Infrastructure the classical Market Mechanisms no longer apply. These platforms should be treated as a Public Service and be a freely available infrastructure for full to one because the india should facebook and google be nationalized and should Digital Infrastructure be freely available just like roads and rails without private corporations raking in a drain just profits would disappear capitalism have to make way for digital communism. Id say were moving into a stormy transition radical social change has always had profound consequences for individuals the same went for the Industrial Revolution in time workers managed to fight for some of their rights with the digital revolution is similar what do you think will be soon and up as im the paid click workers or will the digital revolution have positive effects on most of our lives let us know what you think on you tube facebook on the w dot com and ill see you there fill them. Mobility in the age of corona as the pandemic changed the way we move was the safest way for us to get from point a to point b 5 by the taxi train for comfort. And hence the joy of being taken out of transportation for can it still be fun on the road during hard times read. On digital you. Like. Its. Good for the russians so. Damned near run steam. So many different walks of life. 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