Big tech will be sweating over prospect of worker unionisation

Karlin Lillington from irishtimes said that If I had to pick the most far-reaching and significant threat facing big technology companies in the future, I would not make an obvious choice.

Here, I mean “threat” from the companies’ perspective, the thing most capable of overturning their highly profitable business-as-usual, what they see as their unique corporate culture and defend as exciting new work paradigms and lucrative move-fast policies that allow them to “innovate”.

Many of the rest of us may be more likely to identify these as the more noxious aspects of the industry.

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