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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

NTEN

PT currently has fellowships in Boston, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem -- and will be expanding next year to Europe and other cities in North America. . They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. It was not used efficiently at the beginning.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

For instance, tech companies use algorithmic management to precisely surveil and manage the details of workers’ daily working conditions—tracking every delivery time, cataloging every customer review, mapping workers’ daily locations, even noting the length of bathroom breaks.

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