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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rise of Uber in San Francisco nearly a decade ago marked the beginning of the end for much of the taxi industry. Taxi companies went bankrupt and drivers struggled to pay off their medallions, pushing many of them into debt. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But now, Uber sees an opportunity in the same industry it nearly destroyed. Uber has struck a deal with taxi hailing apps in San Francisco and New York that will allow riders to hail taxis through Uber’s app. Some taxi drivers see an opportunity to boost their pay; others are skeptical that the company can be trusted. So what’s really in it for Uber?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/levisu\">Levi Sumagaysay\u003c/a>, Marketwatch senior reporter \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3928028242&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3vks5qo\">Episode transcript\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Recommended listening and reading:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651103/the-human-cost-of-uber-and-lyft-life-in-the-dying-taxi-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>The Human Cost of Uber and Lyft: Life in the Dying Taxi Industry\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798851/s-f-taxi-drivers-say-the-medallion-crisis-is-killing-them-literally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>SF Taxi Drivers Say the Medallion Crisis Is Killing Them, Literally\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/theres-a-lot-of-suspicion-about-whats-uber-really-up-to-uber-is-bringing-taxicabs-onto-its-platform-heres-how-it-will-work-11649271883?mod=levi-sumagaysay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>‘There’s a lot\u003c/b> of\u003cb> suspicion about what’s Uber really up to’ — Uber is bringing taxicabs onto its platform, here’s how it will work\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cherri Murphy started driving for Lyft in 2017. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She had just finished her master’s program in divinity at the Berkeley School of Theology, and was about to start pursuing a doctorate there. She needed a job to pay off school debt, and a car to get around Oakland. Lyft provided both. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It seemed like a godsend,” Murphy said. “I needed the flexibility they had promised me along with a rental car. But over time, I found myself in this constant cycle of working just to make ends meet.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://help.lyft.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001550508?_gl=1*jje8na*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE2NDkyODI2MDAuQ2p3S0NBanc5TFNTQmhCc0Vpd0FLdGYwbndZdE04MGhjSmpfeW5kS21JRjBNYW9pMGRwbTNKQ2w0SnltLVRSU3Z5ZnJ2THRaU3V2c0Nob0NvNE1RQXZEX0J3RQ..\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyft’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rental car program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> covers routine maintenance, but if a tire blows out or a window is broken during a smash-and-grab, the driver could be charged for the damag\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">es if Lyft decides the damages were the driver’s fault.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Murphy was struggling to keep up with payments to repair the car, and she said she frequently experienced racism and verbal harassment from Lyft passengers.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jasimine StokesOliver, former DoorDash driver\"]‘As I bent over to arrange [the food] at the door, I saw the gun in his hand.’[/pullquote]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Feeling frustrated with the lack of support from Lyft, Murphy started organizing with Gig Workers Rising, a San Jose-based nonprofit that advocates for workers like Murphy. She began collecting the stories of hundreds of rideshare drivers who felt they were being treated unfairly by the companies they worked for. Murphy and others at Gig Workers Rising came across several GoFundMe pages for rideshare drivers who died while driving and delivering food. The families of the drivers were searching for answers and compensation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">recently released report, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gig Workers Rising found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gigsafetynow.com/_files/ugd/af5398_87e49dc58be84bff9cd94076bafe5004.pdf\">over 50 rideshare and delivery drivers were killed\u003c/a> from 2017 to February 2022 in the United States. The report focuses on drivers who have been slain, but does not include fatal traffic accidents or other injuries drivers sustained while on the road. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The killings are the tip of the iceberg,” said Murphy. “Thousands are getting into car accidents, they’re being sexually assaulted, physically assaulted and emotionally accosted. These workers aren’t afforded the important legal protections that they deserve.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major gig companies have responded to requests for comment from KQED by focusing on the safety features the apps provide drivers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An Uber spokesperson highlighted the company’s “in-app emergency button with 911 integration, Follow My Ride location sharing” and a new function that allows riders and drivers to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/newsroom/always-looking-out/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">record audio\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during the ride if either party feels unsafe. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Julian Crowley, a spokesperson for DoorDash, said “while negative incidents are incredibly rare, we’re constantly working to improve safety for all those who use our platform.” He pointed out that like Uber, DoorDash has an in-app emergency button.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.adt.com/news-releases/news-release-details/doordash-partners-adt-help-protect-its-community-millions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DoorDash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/lyft-launches-emergency-help\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyft \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">also \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have partnered with security company ADT to offer safety features within their respective apps.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11895066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men holding signs and two women, one wearing purple and holding a microphone and one woman holding a sign are standing in front of a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherri Murphy, with Gig Workers Rising, speaks outside DoorDash headquarters in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2021, demanding fair pay and employee rights for gig workers and rideshare and delivery drivers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub was the only company to claim there were inaccuracies in the Gig Workers Rising report, specifically in the case of Salauddin Bablu, a Grubhub driver who was killed in Manhattan in October during a carjacking attack. The report claims Bablu’s family “only received sympathies” from the food delivery company, but a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> spokesperson said the company offered the family financial support “for the amount they requested.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub was not legally obligated to financially compensate Bablu’s family because he was not “online” at the time of the incident, and therefore not working for the company at that time. Similarly, when Uber driver \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/18/uber-driver-murder-arrest-ahmad-fawad-yusufi-clifford-lavern-stokes/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ahmad Fawad Yusufi\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an Afghan refugee, was fatally shot in San Francisco’s Mission District while napping in his car between trips, Uber did not offer compensation to Yufusi’s family because he was offline at the time of the incident.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have long known, for over a century, that\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [transportation]\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a dangerous sector,” said Professor Veena Dubal, a labor expert from UC Hastings. “Whether it’s because you’re getting into accidents or because you’re held up at gunpoint or because your body is constantly in the car.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 report \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf\">transportation-related incidents have been the most common work injury since 2016\u003c/a>. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration deemed taxi driving to be one of the most dangerous professions in the country, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.taxi-library.org/osha_fact_sheet.htm\">taxi drivers are 60 times more likely to be murdered on the job\u003c/a> compared to other workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It makes sense that this danger translates to people who are doing similar work, like food delivery work, transportation and ride-hailing work,” Dubal said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But unlike taxi drivers, who have unionized to receive workers’ compensation if they are injured on the job, rideshare and delivery drivers for gig companies like DoorDash, Lyft and Uber are considered independent contractors and therefore ineligible for traditional workers’ compensation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Companies play in the gray of Proposition 22\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Proposition 22, a ballot proposition that solidified the classification of gig workers as independent contractors, was passed overwhelmingly by California voters in 2020. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gig companies including Uber and Lyft lobbied heavily, pouring almost $200 million\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">into the campaign to pass the measure, making Prop. 22 the most expensive ballot measure in California history. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Dubal, rideshare workers occasionally received workers’ compensation if they were injured on the job before the law was passed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There have been workers all over the country who have applied for workers’ compensation based on injuries that they had sustained while on the job and claimed that they were employees,” Dubal said. “They had been misclassified by their employer and received it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the controversial ballot measure passed, it has been harder for gig workers who have been injured on the job to receive workers’ compensation. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled the law was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046905/prop-22-unconstitutional.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“unconstitutional” and “unenforceable.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The law’s constitutionality is currently being debated in other courts, specifically around the limited kinds of workers’ compensation the law provides gig workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11843323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Uber driver Sergei Fyodorov holds a flyer supporting a yes vote on Proposition 22 in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-1536x1032.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uber driver Sergei Fyodorov holds a flyer suggesting riders ask him why he supports Proposition 22, in Oakland on October 2020. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Limited forms of coverage\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keshon, who asked KQED not to use his last name for safety reasons, had enjoyed working for DoorDash while going to school in San Diego. One night in August, he picked up an order from Jack in the Box and was driving to deliver it when he was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/doordash-driver-shot-in-face-in-linda-vista/2697966/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">shot in the face \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and crashed into a traffic signal pole. The San Diego Police say his case is still open and they have made no arrests. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are fragments of bullets still in my nephew’s head,” said Jasimine StokesOliver, Keshon’s aunt and a former DoorDash driver. “I don’t know if those things are going to affect him later.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prop. 22 promises that gig companies would offer contractors “occupational accident insurance” to cover medical expenses and lost income in the case of injuries sustained while on the job. The insurance only goes so far, and many companies, including DoorDash, do not require drivers to opt into the insurance.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prop. 22 also requires companies to cover medical bills up to $1 million — in contrast to the state’s system, which requires companies to cover all medical bills \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">for injuries sustained on the job\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, no matter how expensive. The law also requires companies to offer disability payments for up to two years. For non-gig workers, companies could be required to offer disability payments for the rest of a worker’s life, according to California law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to StokesOliver, DoorDash covered Keshon’s medical expenses and gave him about $300 a week for two months — half of what he would have made if he hadn’t been bedridden. DoorDash did not cover the damages to Keshon’s car, which was totaled in the accident. \u003c/span>[aside postID=news_11907530 label='More On Gig Workers']\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under Prop. 22, gig companies do not have to cover damages to a driver’s car, and it’s up to the company to set its rules. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/driver/insurance\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyft’s insurance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, for example, covers damage to a car up to its actual cash value, if the driver already has comprehensive and collision coverage. Uber’s insurance covers physical damage to the car, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/insurance/\">regardless of who is at fault\u003c/a>.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">StokesOliver herself narrowly avoided an assault while driving for DoorDash.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“As I bent over to arrange [the food] at the door, I saw the gun in his hand,” StokesOliver said of the stranger who followed her to the door. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She pulled out her phone and said she had to take a picture of the order and send it to DoorDash. She said once the man saw her phone, he pulled the gun away and left. StokesOliver was horrified and hurried back to her car. Her 10-year-old son was in the back seat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As she drove away, StokesOliver kept the app open and ignored alerts to move to the next order until she felt safe enough to report the incident. StokesOliver said she was assured the company would look into what happened. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was hoping they would send the police to that address,” StokesOliver said. “They never contacted me to tell me that they notified the police or [encouraged me] to make a police report. There was just none of that.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">StokesOliver left gig work soon after. 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These workers aren’t afforded the important legal protections that they deserve.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major gig companies have responded to requests for comment from KQED by focusing on the safety features the apps provide drivers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An Uber spokesperson highlighted the company’s “in-app emergency button with 911 integration, Follow My Ride location sharing” and a new function that allows riders and drivers to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/newsroom/always-looking-out/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">record audio\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during the ride if either party feels unsafe. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Julian Crowley, a spokesperson for DoorDash, said “while negative incidents are incredibly rare, we’re constantly working to improve safety for all those who use our platform.” He pointed out that like Uber, DoorDash has an in-app emergency button.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.adt.com/news-releases/news-release-details/doordash-partners-adt-help-protect-its-community-millions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DoorDash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/lyft-launches-emergency-help\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyft \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">also \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have partnered with security company ADT to offer safety features within their respective apps.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11895066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men holding signs and two women, one wearing purple and holding a microphone and one woman holding a sign are standing in front of a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherri Murphy, with Gig Workers Rising, speaks outside DoorDash headquarters in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2021, demanding fair pay and employee rights for gig workers and rideshare and delivery drivers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub was the only company to claim there were inaccuracies in the Gig Workers Rising report, specifically in the case of Salauddin Bablu, a Grubhub driver who was killed in Manhattan in October during a carjacking attack. The report claims Bablu’s family “only received sympathies” from the food delivery company, but a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> spokesperson said the company offered the family financial support “for the amount they requested.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub was not legally obligated to financially compensate Bablu’s family because he was not “online” at the time of the incident, and therefore not working for the company at that time. Similarly, when Uber driver \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/18/uber-driver-murder-arrest-ahmad-fawad-yusufi-clifford-lavern-stokes/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ahmad Fawad Yusufi\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an Afghan refugee, was fatally shot in San Francisco’s Mission District while napping in his car between trips, Uber did not offer compensation to Yufusi’s family because he was offline at the time of the incident.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have long known, for over a century, that\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [transportation]\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a dangerous sector,” said Professor Veena Dubal, a labor expert from UC Hastings. “Whether it’s because you’re getting into accidents or because you’re held up at gunpoint or because your body is constantly in the car.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 report \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf\">transportation-related incidents have been the most common work injury since 2016\u003c/a>. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration deemed taxi driving to be one of the most dangerous professions in the country, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.taxi-library.org/osha_fact_sheet.htm\">taxi drivers are 60 times more likely to be murdered on the job\u003c/a> compared to other workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It makes sense that this danger translates to people who are doing similar work, like food delivery work, transportation and ride-hailing work,” Dubal said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But unlike taxi drivers, who have unionized to receive workers’ compensation if they are injured on the job, rideshare and delivery drivers for gig companies like DoorDash, Lyft and Uber are considered independent contractors and therefore ineligible for traditional workers’ compensation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Companies play in the gray of Proposition 22\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Proposition 22, a ballot proposition that solidified the classification of gig workers as independent contractors, was passed overwhelmingly by California voters in 2020. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gig companies including Uber and Lyft lobbied heavily, pouring almost $200 million\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">into the campaign to pass the measure, making Prop. 22 the most expensive ballot measure in California history. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Dubal, rideshare workers occasionally received workers’ compensation if they were injured on the job before the law was passed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There have been workers all over the country who have applied for workers’ compensation based on injuries that they had sustained while on the job and claimed that they were employees,” Dubal said. “They had been misclassified by their employer and received it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the controversial ballot measure passed, it has been harder for gig workers who have been injured on the job to receive workers’ compensation. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled the law was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046905/prop-22-unconstitutional.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“unconstitutional” and “unenforceable.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The law’s constitutionality is currently being debated in other courts, specifically around the limited kinds of workers’ compensation the law provides gig workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11843323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Uber driver Sergei Fyodorov holds a flyer supporting a yes vote on Proposition 22 in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-1536x1032.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uber driver Sergei Fyodorov holds a flyer suggesting riders ask him why he supports Proposition 22, in Oakland on October 2020. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Limited forms of coverage\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keshon, who asked KQED not to use his last name for safety reasons, had enjoyed working for DoorDash while going to school in San Diego. 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"content": "\u003cp>Machines that talk have existed in our lives for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1939, Bell Laboratories changed everything by unveiling The Voder, the first electronic vocal synthesizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featured at the New York and San Francisco World’s Fair, it was played using 10 keys, a foot pedal and a bar controlled by the operator’s wrist. The demonstration marked the first time the world heard what a modern machine voice could sound like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-now/voder-voice-sample/embed?image=1&share=0&download=1&description=0&follow=0&foreground=6d4d8f&background=f5f5f5&highlight=e51e40\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"THE VODER: World Fair 1939\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, most of us find ourselves surrounded by many machines that talk (Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, to name a few) and they increasingly sound a lot like us. 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Follow KQED reporter Chloe Veltman’s journey to get her own voice cloned by a San José-based natural language speech synthesis company called \u003ca href=\"https://speechmorphing.com\">Speech Morphing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-now/send-in-the-clone/embed?image=1&share=0&download=1&description=0&follow=0&foreground=6d4d8f&background=f5f5f5&highlight=e51e40\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Send In The Clones\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Human or Machine’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Put your own ears to the test. See if you can tell the difference between human and machine voices in “Human or Machine,” our interactive voice game for Alexa and Google Assistant. The game, which sounds deceptively simple, was created by Lowell Robinson, KQED’s Voice and AI senior producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Amazon Alexa device shows the KQED Human or Machine home screen.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut-800x447.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut-160x89.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Human or Machine is a new interactive voice game from KQED. \u003ccite>(Lowell Robinson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SR98HY6/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EMSP8FWBBW2E&keywords=human+or+machine+skill&qid=1645135456&sprefix=human+or+machine+skill%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-2\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11864338 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/amazon-alexa-160x76-1.png\" alt=\"Amazon Alexa\" width=\"160\" height=\"76\">\u003c/a> To play Human or Machine on Alexa, say “\u003cstrong>Alexa, open Human or Machine\u003c/strong>.” You can also find it here on \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SR98HY6/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EMSP8FWBBW2E&keywords=human+or+machine+skill&qid=1645135456&sprefix=human+or+machine+skill%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-2\">Amazon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://assistant.google.com/services/a/uid/00000087cc689821?hl=en\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11799864 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/XPM_BADGING_GoogleAssistant_VER-e1580774322858-160x154.png\" alt=\"works with the Google Assistant\" width=\"160\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/XPM_BADGING_GoogleAssistant_VER-e1580774322858-160x154.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/XPM_BADGING_GoogleAssistant_VER-e1580774322858-800x770.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/XPM_BADGING_GoogleAssistant_VER-e1580774322858-1020x982.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/XPM_BADGING_GoogleAssistant_VER-e1580774322858.png 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a> To play on Google Assistant, say “\u003cstrong>Hey Google, talk to Human or Machine\u003c/strong>” You can also find in here the \u003ca href=\"https://assistant.google.com/services/a/uid/00000087cc689821?hl=en\">Actions Directory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Machines that talk have existed in our lives for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1939, Bell Laboratories changed everything by unveiling The Voder, the first electronic vocal synthesizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featured at the New York and San Francisco World’s Fair, it was played using 10 keys, a foot pedal and a bar controlled by the operator’s wrist. The demonstration marked the first time the world heard what a modern machine voice could sound like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-now/voder-voice-sample/embed?image=1&share=0&download=1&description=0&follow=0&foreground=6d4d8f&background=f5f5f5&highlight=e51e40\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"THE VODER: World Fair 1939\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, most of us find ourselves surrounded by many machines that talk (Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, to name a few) and they increasingly sound a lot like us. With advances in artificial intelligence (AI), it’s getting harder to distinguish these synthetic voices from human ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why do we even want robots to sound like us in the first place, and what makes machine voices still sound robotic (albeit decreasingly so)? KQED explored these questions in a two-part project: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1073031858/artificial-intelligence-voice-cloning\">“Send in the clones: Using artificial intelligence to digitally replicate human voices”\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/mark-seligman-and-chloe-veltman-chloney-demo-credit-speech-morphing_wide-ab300712e47dd0f417ef7cd185b.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/mark-seligman-and-chloe-veltman-chloney-demo-credit-speech-morphing_wide-ab300712e47dd0f417ef7cd185b.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing earbuds listens as a man next to her sits in front of a laptop.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/mark-seligman-and-chloe-veltman-chloney-demo-credit-speech-morphing_wide-ab300712e47dd0f417ef7cd185b.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/mark-seligman-and-chloe-veltman-chloney-demo-credit-speech-morphing_wide-ab300712e47dd0f417ef7cd185b-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/mark-seligman-and-chloe-veltman-chloney-demo-credit-speech-morphing_wide-ab300712e47dd0f417ef7cd185b-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/mark-seligman-and-chloe-veltman-chloney-demo-credit-speech-morphing_wide-ab300712e47dd0f417ef7cd185b-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/mark-seligman-and-chloe-veltman-chloney-demo-credit-speech-morphing_wide-ab300712e47dd0f417ef7cd185b-1536x863.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Chloe Veltman, right, reacts to hearing her digital voice double, “Chloney,” for the first time, presented by Mark Seligman, chief linguist at the San José company Speech Morphing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Speech Morphing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chloe, meet “Chloney”. Follow KQED reporter Chloe Veltman’s journey to get her own voice cloned by a San José-based natural language speech synthesis company called \u003ca href=\"https://speechmorphing.com\">Speech Morphing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-now/send-in-the-clone/embed?image=1&share=0&download=1&description=0&follow=0&foreground=6d4d8f&background=f5f5f5&highlight=e51e40\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Send In The Clones\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Human or Machine’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Put your own ears to the test. See if you can tell the difference between human and machine voices in “Human or Machine,” our interactive voice game for Alexa and Google Assistant. The game, which sounds deceptively simple, was created by Lowell Robinson, KQED’s Voice and AI senior producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Amazon Alexa device shows the KQED Human or Machine home screen.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut-800x447.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53689_humanOrMachineTable_v2-qut-160x89.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Human or Machine is a new interactive voice game from KQED. \u003ccite>(Lowell Robinson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SR98HY6/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EMSP8FWBBW2E&keywords=human+or+machine+skill&qid=1645135456&sprefix=human+or+machine+skill%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-2\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11864338 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/amazon-alexa-160x76-1.png\" alt=\"Amazon Alexa\" width=\"160\" height=\"76\">\u003c/a> To play Human or Machine on Alexa, say “\u003cstrong>Alexa, open Human or Machine\u003c/strong>.” You can also find it here on \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SR98HY6/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EMSP8FWBBW2E&keywords=human+or+machine+skill&qid=1645135456&sprefix=human+or+machine+skill%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-2\">Amazon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://assistant.google.com/services/a/uid/00000087cc689821?hl=en\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11799864 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/XPM_BADGING_GoogleAssistant_VER-e1580774322858-160x154.png\" alt=\"works with the Google Assistant\" width=\"160\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/XPM_BADGING_GoogleAssistant_VER-e1580774322858-160x154.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/XPM_BADGING_GoogleAssistant_VER-e1580774322858-800x770.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/XPM_BADGING_GoogleAssistant_VER-e1580774322858-1020x982.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/XPM_BADGING_GoogleAssistant_VER-e1580774322858.png 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a> To play on Google Assistant, say “\u003cstrong>Hey Google, talk to Human or Machine\u003c/strong>” You can also find in here the \u003ca href=\"https://assistant.google.com/services/a/uid/00000087cc689821?hl=en\">Actions Directory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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He’s married to a Ukrainian woman, with in-laws in one of the disputed regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told him tanks have arrived in their town \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/ukraine-russia-invasion-putin\">as Russia’s long-feared assault on Ukraine began Thursday\u003c/a>, and they’ve relocated to their basement. “So we need evacuation plans for them,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JetBridge employs more than 20 people in Ukraine, and the company has been working on contingency plans to get them out: to western Ukraine, to Poland, or even to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have to evacuate them, we also have to evacuate their families. And so this could be 100 people,” Kim said. But it’s an open question when that might happen. “Airports have been bombed and traffic is a no go. People are stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the JetBridge team in Belarus, dependent, like their co-workers in Ukraine, on international money transfers for their salaries. Kim fears financial sanctions on Russia could be extended to include Belarus, a Russian ally. Should that happen, it could become difficult to pay his employees there. “So now we have questions, like, do we need to extract people out of Belarus?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906424\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/CyclistUkraineFlag.jpg\" alt=\"cyclist carrying bright yellow and blue ukrainian flag rides under series of metal hoops under a blue sky\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/CyclistUkraineFlag.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/CyclistUkraineFlag-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/CyclistUkraineFlag-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/CyclistUkraineFlag-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/CyclistUkraineFlag-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist waves the Ukrainian flag over his head as he rides through the Sonic Runway, an art installation outside San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While many companies big and small employ Ukrainians here or in Ukraine, those contacted by KQED declined to identify specific employees out of concern for their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JustAnswer, a San Francisco-based tech company that employs 252 people in Ukraine, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/How-Russia-invading-Ukraine-affects-the-workforce-16938923.php\">also has been working on contingency plans to keep its workers safe, make sure they get paid — and handle workers who want to serve in Ukraine’s military\u003c/a>, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, Oracle, Snap, Grammarly and Ring also employ workers in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Ring said the company is in close contact with the people it does business with in Ukraine, and that “we’re of course monitoring their well-being with great care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the first time that our team members in Ukraine have experienced heightened uncertainty,” said a spokesperson for Grammarly, \u003ca href=\"https://gbozhok.medium.com/grammarly-the-story-of-how-three-ukrainians-created-the-most-popular-online-grammar-checker-5c3f20a2f66a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a company founded by Ukrainians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Grammarly also supports all of our team members, including those who call Ukraine home, with various mental health benefits and frequent internal communication updates that aim to provide clarity in a time of uncertainty,” the spokesperson said. “Our contingency plans also account for ensuring Grammarly’s services will not be disrupted. This includes backup communication methods and temporary transfer of business-critical responsibilities to team members outside of Ukraine to ensure our Ukraine-based team members can focus on the immediate safety of themselves and their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, after Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, the nonprofit humanitarian aid organization \u003ca href=\"https://novaukraine.org/\">Nova Ukraine\u003c/a> was born in the Bay Area. It’s one of several groups raising funds for causes ranging from helping underserved children in Ukraine with educational aid, to COVID relief, to a letter-writing campaign directed at U.S. lawmakers regarding the Russian invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have fewer connections now than before,” said Igor Markov, a research scientist for a prominent Silicon Valley company who volunteers for Nova Ukraine in his spare time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came to the U.S. in 1993 to study mathematics in graduate school. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than a dozen antitrust bills targeting Big Tech are currently in play in the nation’s capital, and Silicon Valley has mounted a full-court press to kill or soften the legislative onslaught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills could make it more difficult for large tech companies to, among other things, acquire smaller companies, use their platforms to unduly boost their own products, and wield their huge cash stockpiles to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/666274605/how-big-is-amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dominate multiple, additional industries\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"news_11889347\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51554_GettyImages-1235407516-qut.jpg\"]The main companies in the sights of federal lawmakers include Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, the latter three of which are headquartered in the Bay Area. All four have become multibillion-dollar giants of advertising through buying and selling consumer data, while also variously dominating other industries like retail, apps and entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have historically taken a relatively light touch toward regulating the technology industry. But that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/27/monopoly-antitrust-new-rules-tech-525161\">hands-off approach has recently shifted\u003c/a> among a growing number of Democrats, and even some Republicans, as the power and size of these companies has grown exponentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have companies like Google that have 90% control over search engines,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/amyklobuchar/videos/1985625218247197/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told CNN\u003c/a> last year. “What I’m proposing is, make sure [federal agencies like the Federal Trade Commission] are able to take on trillion-dollar companies like Facebook and Google. They can’t do it with Band-Aids and duct tape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “We must have laws that are as sophisticated as the companies we’re dealing with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that vein, the slate of proposed legislation tackles a wide array of gray areas in the law to provide federal regulators with the resources — monetary and conceptual — to go after large companies. Here’s a small sampling of the bills:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HR 3816\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S 2992\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>The American Choice and Innovation Online Act\u003c/strong> would bar platforms like Apple’s App Store or Amazon’s Marketplace from “self-preferencing,” or giving their own products an unfair advantage over those of their competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3843?q=%7B%22search%22:%5B%223843%22,%223843%22%5D%7D&s=3&r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HR 3843\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/228?q=%7B%22search%22:%5B%22Merger+Filing+Fee+Modernization+Act%22,%22Merger%22,%22Filing%22,%22Fee%22,%22Modernization%22,%22Act%22%5D%7D&s=6&r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S 228\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2021\u003c/strong> would increase the merger fees regulators collect from companies and use the additional amounts to fund aggressive enforcement of antitrust laws by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3608?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Social+Media+NUDGE+Act%22%2C%22Social%22%2C%22Media%22%2C%22NUDGE%22%2C%22Act%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S 3608\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>The Social Media NUDGE Act\u003c/strong> would direct the National Science Foundation and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to study “content neutral” ways to address the algorithmic amplification of harmful content.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101882161\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2016/11/facebook-screen.jpg\"]But despite high-drama hearings from whistleblowers like former Facebook lead product manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.franceshaugen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frances Haugen\u003c/a>, most of these bills have yet to make it out of their respective committees. It’s entirely unclear how many will ever get a floor vote in the House or Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klobuchar, among the handful of lawmakers leading the antitrust charge, has acknowledged that the odds are daunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are up against a lot. … The tech companies have 2,500 lobbyists and probably 10,000 lawyers,” she said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?516757-1/senate-hearing-impact-corporate-monopolies-innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights\u003c/a> last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most analysts agree that if Republicans regain the majority in Congress after this year’s midterm elections, it’s game over for the biggest antitrust effort in generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Strong pushback\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tech industry proponents have presented a varied, and in some cases compelling, set of arguments against these legislative efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berin Szóka, president of TechFreedom, a \u003ca href=\"https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/trade_association_and_third_party_groups.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tech-funded\u003c/a> think tank in Washington, D.C., argues that the bills are rushed and poorly written. He decries the lack of traditional legislative hearings and markups before floor debate, even while acknowledging this practice has fallen out of vogue in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are legislating the way that that cartoon shows the railroad bridge being built out over the canyon as the train is going — except we don’t know what the train looks like or where it’s going,” he said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jennifer King, privacy and data policy fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence\"]‘We now have a legislative structure that’s just as dependent on those data practices that the commercial structure is dependent on: behavioral targeting and marketing practices that are really at issue in all these cases.’[/pullquote]Efforts by Democrats, like Klobuchar, to win support from key Republicans, he says, have resulted in bills full of ticking time bombs that could explode on Democrats and their allies the next time Republicans regain control of the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Szóka argues, the same bill that would prevent tech titans from discriminating against competitors might also prevent them from removing companies from their app stores that have violated content rules, like Parler, a social media platform that has become a safe harbor for right-wing conspiracy theorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be easy for these sites that cater to extremists to sue, to harass mainstream services, to rifle through emails, to depose executives,” said Szóka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar concerns have been expressed by many in California’s congressional delegation, suggesting that Democrats could balk at supporting some of the bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla are among a large group of California Democrats who have criticized elements of the bills, mirroring some of the arguments made by tech-funded think tanks. Reps. Lou Correa, D-East LA; Ted Lieu, D-Torrance; Eric Swalwell, D-Castro Valley; Ro Khanna, D-Fremont; and Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose also have raised concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they spent more time on the hearing than they did in writing the proposed legislation. Because it’s not well crafted and it was done in a hurry,” Lofgren recently lamented about the American Choice and Innovation Online Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview last month with Julia Angwin of The Markup, \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?517286-1/after-words-representative-ro-khanna\">Rep. Khanna said breakups are certainly justified\u003c/a> in some instances. “On Facebook, for example, where they’ve acquired Instagram and WhatsApp, you should have an unraveling of that company. I think you want to have a ban on mergers that are acquiring competitors.”[aside postID=\"news_11888891\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-461843598-scaled.jpg\"]But he cautioned about being “overly restrictive on all mergers,” noting that mergers and acquisitions are a basic element of the U.S. economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washington Post recently reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/21/tech-lobbying-in-washington/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just seven large tech companies spent nearly $70 million\u003c/a> lobbying the U.S. government in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are genuinely concerned that they could break a wide range of popular services we offer to our users, all the work we do to make our products safe, private and secure, and in some cases can hurt American competitiveness by disadvantaging solely U.S. companies,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said of the current bills during a recent earnings call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Lofgren and others who have voiced concerns with the current bills \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/03/tech-giants-are-doling-out-political-donations-antitrust-skeptics-congress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continue to take money\u003c/a> from the likes of Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, but say that doesn’t influence their position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren told KQED, “That’s obviously baloney, and if that were the case, Anna [Eshoo] and I wouldn’t have introduced our privacy bill, which would require a huge change in the business model of any company that relies on the data of its users.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6027/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Online+Privacy+Act%22%2C%22Online%22%2C%22Privacy%22%2C%22Act%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Online Privacy Act\u003c/a> Lofgren reintroduced with fellow Silicon Valley Rep. Anna Eshoo is considered a serious threat to the personal data trading model that’s become the bread and butter for mega conglomerates. The legislation would require companies to protect users’ data, as well as establish a new federal agency to enforce privacy protections, and strengthen enforcement of privacy law violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer King, who follows data and privacy for the \u003ca href=\"http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jen-king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence\u003c/a>, is not holding her breath for this Congress to act on any kind of revolutionary reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big reason why: Both political parties, she notes, have grown quite fond of using targeted advertising themselves. “We now have a legislative structure that’s just as dependent on those data practices that the commercial structure is dependent on: behavioral targeting and marketing practices that are really at issue in all these cases,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one thing most lawmakers do seem to agree on is the need for some kind of new legislation, if only to bolster funding for federal regulators like those at the Federal Trade Commission. But what exactly that should look like is where the consensus falls apart.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:20 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California regulators have sued Tesla Inc., alleging the electric carmaker has been discriminating against Black employees at the Bay Area factory where most of its vehicles are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit seems likely to widen a rift between Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest person, and the state where he launched the company. Tesla is now worth more than $900 billion, less than 20 years after Musk set out to transform the auto industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk moved Tesla's headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin, Texas, last year after publicly feuding with Alameda County officials over whether Tesla's Fremont factory should remain shut down during the spring of 2020 while the coronavirus pandemic was still in its early stages (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818938/tesla-reopens-but-battle-between-carmaker-and-alameda-county-isnt-over\">Musk reopened the factory in defiance of county health orders\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrimination lawsuit, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21202498/dfeh-vs-tesla.pdf\">filed late Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court\u003c/a> by California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing, was sparked by hundreds of worker complaints, said Kevin Kish, the agency's head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department, which enforces state civil rights laws, \"found evidence that Tesla's Fremont factory is a racially segregated workplace where Black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against in job assignments, discipline, pay, and promotion creating a hostile work environment,\" Kish said in a statement reported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-sued-by-california-civil-rights-agency-for-alleged-racial-discrimination-harassment-11644468985?mod=hp_lista_pos1\">The Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-10/tesla-sued-by-california-for-race-discrimination-agency-says\">Bloomberg\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21202498/dfeh-vs-tesla.pdf\">39-page complaint filed Wednesday\u003c/a>, the state alleges that Black workers at Tesla's Fremont factory have reported since 2012 that supervisors and managers \"constantly use the n-word and other racial slurs to refer to Black workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black workers have also complained \"that swastikas, 'KKK,' the n-word, and other racist writing are etched onto walls of restrooms, restroom stalls, lunch tables, and even factory machinery,\" and have said they are often assigned more physically demanding work, paid less than other workers and often denied advancement opportunities, the filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit frames Tesla's move to Texas as an attempt to evade accountability for turning “a blind eye to years of complaints from Black workers who protest commonplace use of racial slurs on the assembly line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the complaints, the lawsuit alleges Musk has told workers to be “thick-skinned\" about racial harassment, contributing to the culture that's slow to clean up racist graffiti and other hateful symbols scrawled around the factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the N-word, other racist language used in the factory included \"porch monkey\" and \"hood rat\" and entreaties that Black workers \"go back to Africa,\" according to the lawsuit. The complaint also alleges the factory was racially segregated, and that the area where Black workers labored was derided as the \"slave ship,\" or \"the plantation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the agency filed the lawsuit, Tesla \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/dfehs-misguided-lawsuit\">preemptively posted a statement on its website\u003c/a> lashing out at what it called an \"unfair and counterproductive\" lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='tesla']The company asserted that the agency has been asked on nearly 50 occasions during the past five years to look into allegations of discrimination and harassment, and closed each investigation without finding any evidence of misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It therefore strains credibility for the agency to now allege, after a three-year investigation, that systematic racial discrimination and harassment somehow existed at Tesla,\" the company wrote, while trying to frame the lawsuit as a publicity stunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this isn't the first time that Tesla's treatment of the roughly 10,000 employees at its Fremont factory has come under scrutiny. The factory remains Tesla's biggest manufacturer of electric cars, even as the company has opened additional plants, including a new one in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891110/tesla-must-pay-137-million-to-a-black-former-contractor-who-claimed-racial-abuse\">a federal jury awarded $137 million in damages to a \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891110/tesla-must-pay-137-million-to-a-black-former-contractor-who-claimed-racial-abuse\">Black \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891110/tesla-must-pay-137-million-to-a-black-former-contractor-who-claimed-racial-abuse\">former elevator operator who had alleged he faced daily racist slurs\u003c/a> and other forms of harassment while working at the Fremont plant in 2015 and 2016 before quitting. 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And so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But looking back, Wilkinson thinks Google's luxurious on-site perks have made workers too dependent on the company, a situation he calls \"dangerous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This notion that you can provide everything that would support a worker's life on campus might appear to be extremely generous and supportive,\" he said. \"But it also has a whole range of potentially negative impacts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11902513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/clive-wilkinson_003-edit_custom-28f1d4588fcde15941d9af240730efe934e9b4e5-scaled-e1643058811428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Architect Clive Wilkinson's design for the famed Googleplex set a high bar for other Silicon Valley companies eager to keep employees at home in the office. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson spoke in an interview at his glass-enclosed hillside home in West Los Angeles, which some have compared to a \"\u003ca href=\"https://homeworlddesign.com/west-los-angeles-residence-clive-wilkinson-architects/\">spaceship on stilts\u003c/a>.\" His comments on Google's campus came during an extensive conversation with NPR about how the pandemic may forever reshape office life and what it could mean for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Silicon Valley has long been known for offering unusual amenities to its workers, Google's offerings set a high bar. Other tech giants began to roll out their own free meals, nature trails and private transportation services in efforts to attract and retain talent. But Wilkinson said as companies plan to bring workers back into the office, such arrangements should be reconsidered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said blurring the line between work and nonwork keeps employees tethered to the office, benefiting the employer most of all. That, he argues, may seem to keep workers happy but can quickly spark burnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Work-life balance cannot be achieved by spending all your life on a work campus. It's not real. It's not really engaging with the world in the way most people do,\" he said. \"It also drains the immediate neighborhoods of being able to have a commercial reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees have no reason to leave campus to explore local cafes, restaurants or grocery stores because everything is handed to them. To Wilkinson, overly coddling workers like this is \"fundamentally unhealthy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, he said, \"hasn't been recognized as one of the dangerous side effects.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an employer is trying to foster creativity, \"you don't want an overly comfortable workplace. You shouldn't have sleep pods everywhere,\" he said. \"Creative work doesn't happen in a condition of luxury. If you have that much luxury, you naturally want to fall asleep.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, it is \"a difficult one to pull apart,\" he said. \"Because once you made all those offers to your employees, how do you pull back from that situation?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authors Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen talked to Wilkinson about his new perspective on the Googleplex in their new book \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1059829390/working-from-home-doesnt-have-to-suck-heres-how-out-of-office-can-be-better\">\u003cem>Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a way that something that was built with good intentions can be slightly corrupted,\" Warzel told NPR. \"It's not a terrible thing for employees to get nice perks, but what is it in service of? Making you a better worker? Or making sure your needs are met? 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When the pandemic forced Googlers off campus, it appears it dented worker morale, and the company is responding with \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-give-additional-staff-bonus-next-year-2021-12-08/\">new cash bonuses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, which did not respond to a request for comment, is planning a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/25/google-cleared-to-build-multi-billion-dollar-megacampus-in-san-jose.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar\">multibillion-dollar campus\u003c/a> in San Jose and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/19/google-huge-new-campus-mountain-view-green-tech-real-estate-develop/\">another massive site\u003c/a> in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The office is not dead, Wilkinson argues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When COVID-19 hit, some 2.5 million square feet of office space Wilkinson's firm was working on was canceled or delayed. But he becomes defiant when asked whether the pandemic has killed the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's ridiculous to say the office is dead,\" said Wilkinson. \"The office is the fermenting ground for people growing into successful adults. How would that ever be dead?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies suggest remote work will outlast the pandemic. But most companies in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/rsm-survey-shows-how-covid-19-has-influenced-a-transformation-of-the-working-world\">new U.S. Chamber of Commerce survey\u003c/a> said they also plan to maintain their office spaces. Wilkinson's corporate clients are now returning. He says most of them are not ready to forgo the office. They are, however, eager for a facelift, one that makes sense in a hybrid work environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To a certain degree, he said, companies are winging it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People don't know how much space they need anymore, so I think an awful lot of large companies are waiting to see what everybody else does,\" Wilkinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one wants a depressingly empty office, something he calls \"one of the biggest problems in the new workplace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds, \"When you go in there, specifically because of hybrid working, is the place going to feel that it's underpowered and it's running on empty?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so he suspects, happily, that the pandemic has wiped out one particular type of office: the cubicle farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cubicles are like human chicken farming. 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An environment where it's easy to hang out and chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/01/19/clive-wilkinson_008-edit_custom-f21324dfa746b167ea0996cad197100dbc35fbb1-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some have compared the glass-enclosed hillside home that Wilkinson built for himself in West Los Angeles to a \"spaceship on stilts.\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You might think you're walking into the lounge of a boutique hotel,\" Wilkinson said. \"It's an amazingly effective work environment, even though there's no conventional kind of office furnishing or anything like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has noticed something else about the pandemic-era office plans he is now working on: Companies are investing in outdoor spaces. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But looking back, Wilkinson thinks Google's luxurious on-site perks have made workers too dependent on the company, a situation he calls \"dangerous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This notion that you can provide everything that would support a worker's life on campus might appear to be extremely generous and supportive,\" he said. \"But it also has a whole range of potentially negative impacts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11902513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/clive-wilkinson_003-edit_custom-28f1d4588fcde15941d9af240730efe934e9b4e5-scaled-e1643058811428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Architect Clive Wilkinson's design for the famed Googleplex set a high bar for other Silicon Valley companies eager to keep employees at home in the office. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson spoke in an interview at his glass-enclosed hillside home in West Los Angeles, which some have compared to a \"\u003ca href=\"https://homeworlddesign.com/west-los-angeles-residence-clive-wilkinson-architects/\">spaceship on stilts\u003c/a>.\" His comments on Google's campus came during an extensive conversation with NPR about how the pandemic may forever reshape office life and what it could mean for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Silicon Valley has long been known for offering unusual amenities to its workers, Google's offerings set a high bar. Other tech giants began to roll out their own free meals, nature trails and private transportation services in efforts to attract and retain talent. But Wilkinson said as companies plan to bring workers back into the office, such arrangements should be reconsidered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said blurring the line between work and nonwork keeps employees tethered to the office, benefiting the employer most of all. That, he argues, may seem to keep workers happy but can quickly spark burnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Work-life balance cannot be achieved by spending all your life on a work campus. It's not real. It's not really engaging with the world in the way most people do,\" he said. \"It also drains the immediate neighborhoods of being able to have a commercial reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees have no reason to leave campus to explore local cafes, restaurants or grocery stores because everything is handed to them. To Wilkinson, overly coddling workers like this is \"fundamentally unhealthy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, he said, \"hasn't been recognized as one of the dangerous side effects.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an employer is trying to foster creativity, \"you don't want an overly comfortable workplace. You shouldn't have sleep pods everywhere,\" he said. \"Creative work doesn't happen in a condition of luxury. If you have that much luxury, you naturally want to fall asleep.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, it is \"a difficult one to pull apart,\" he said. \"Because once you made all those offers to your employees, how do you pull back from that situation?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authors Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen talked to Wilkinson about his new perspective on the Googleplex in their new book \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1059829390/working-from-home-doesnt-have-to-suck-heres-how-out-of-office-can-be-better\">\u003cem>Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a way that something that was built with good intentions can be slightly corrupted,\" Warzel told NPR. \"It's not a terrible thing for employees to get nice perks, but what is it in service of? Making you a better worker? Or making sure your needs are met? Or keeping you stuck in this liminal work-like state for as long as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, plenty of Google's some 144,000 employees appear to be just fine with the on-site luxuries their employer provides. Surveys routinely place Google at the tops of lists for\u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191204005292/en/Despite-Employee-Tensions-Google-Ranks-1-out-of-the-CareerBliss-50-Happiest-Companies-for-2020\"> worker happiness\u003c/a> and satisfaction with how much employees are paid. When the pandemic forced Googlers off campus, it appears it dented worker morale, and the company is responding with \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-give-additional-staff-bonus-next-year-2021-12-08/\">new cash bonuses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, which did not respond to a request for comment, is planning a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/25/google-cleared-to-build-multi-billion-dollar-megacampus-in-san-jose.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar\">multibillion-dollar campus\u003c/a> in San Jose and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/19/google-huge-new-campus-mountain-view-green-tech-real-estate-develop/\">another massive site\u003c/a> in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The office is not dead, Wilkinson argues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When COVID-19 hit, some 2.5 million square feet of office space Wilkinson's firm was working on was canceled or delayed. But he becomes defiant when asked whether the pandemic has killed the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's ridiculous to say the office is dead,\" said Wilkinson. \"The office is the fermenting ground for people growing into successful adults. How would that ever be dead?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies suggest remote work will outlast the pandemic. But most companies in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/rsm-survey-shows-how-covid-19-has-influenced-a-transformation-of-the-working-world\">new U.S. Chamber of Commerce survey\u003c/a> said they also plan to maintain their office spaces. Wilkinson's corporate clients are now returning. He says most of them are not ready to forgo the office. They are, however, eager for a facelift, one that makes sense in a hybrid work environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To a certain degree, he said, companies are winging it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People don't know how much space they need anymore, so I think an awful lot of large companies are waiting to see what everybody else does,\" Wilkinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one wants a depressingly empty office, something he calls \"one of the biggest problems in the new workplace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds, \"When you go in there, specifically because of hybrid working, is the place going to feel that it's underpowered and it's running on empty?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so he suspects, happily, that the pandemic has wiped out one particular type of office: the cubicle farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cubicles are like human chicken farming. They have always been bad for anything other than kind of factory-farming kind of approach to the office,\" he said. \"Put people in tiny little footprint because it takes less money than an enclosed office and we can kind of keep an eye on them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Out with the old office, in with the 'boutique hotel' feel\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If jammed-together desks are out and Wilkinson cautions against swanky amenities à la Google, what does the post-pandemic workplace resemble?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson envisions big, open spaces with couches and cozy nooks as work stations that are not assigned to any single employee. An environment where it's easy to hang out and chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/01/19/clive-wilkinson_008-edit_custom-f21324dfa746b167ea0996cad197100dbc35fbb1-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some have compared the glass-enclosed hillside home that Wilkinson built for himself in West Los Angeles to a \"spaceship on stilts.\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You might think you're walking into the lounge of a boutique hotel,\" Wilkinson said. \"It's an amazingly effective work environment, even though there's no conventional kind of office furnishing or anything like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has noticed something else about the pandemic-era office plans he is now working on: Companies are investing in outdoor spaces. 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