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November 25, 2020
Jacob Silverman
Do You Know Your Microsoft Productivity Score?
Don’t ignore that Excel spreadsheet or PowerPoint presentation! The company’s 365 software now rates worker performance.
July 2, 2020
George Blaustein
Searching for Consolation in Max Weber’s Work Ethic
The German sociologist’s famous treatise on capitalism takes on new meaning amid a job-destroying pandemic.
May 4, 2020
MagazineRachel Riederer
How Zoom Colonized Our Lives
Our digital dependency has created a privacy crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic has forced a reckoning.
April 9, 2020
PodcastThe Politics of Everything
The Socially Distanced Protester
The challenges of collective action under lockdown
April 6, 2020
MagazineMicah L. Sifry
The Vanishing Public Square
What happens when we can no longer march?
March 31, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Welcome to the Zoom Party
All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom.

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