Posted on 07/29/2017 7:35:47 AM PDT by Lorianne
Google announced on Wednesday a new $50 million initiative to study and prepare "for the changing nature of work," beginning with investments in the U.S. and Europe to help train job seekers and improve the working conditions for those already employed.
The commitment comes by way of Google.org, the search giant's philanthropic organization. Its president, Jacquelline Fuller, unveiled the campaign in a blog post this morning, stressing the goal is to "make sure that as many people as possible can make the most of the new jobs, industries and opportunities that are emerging — some of which we couldn't have imagined just a few years ago."
The search giant's initiative also has backed Social Finance, a U.S.-based nonprofit that will study the cost effectiveness and success of youth-training programs.
And Google.org said it has devoted another slice of its new $50 million fund to "improving job quality for low-wage workers."
To start, some of the new money is heading to groups like Code for America, as Google.org looks to "support organizations who are driving innovative approaches to connecting job seekers and employers," as Fuller described it.
Absent from its announcement, however, is any mention of the exact tech transformations that are actually displacing workers and reshaping entire industries — advancements like automation or artificial intelligence, two areas in which Google is among a small set of hard-charging tech pioneers.
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I don't see why we need federal legislation to improve "health insurance" for a certain segment of workers. This all sounds like a new caste system being set up to me.
And I would add to what you said ,what’s up with some health insurance benefit for “gig economy” workers? Didn’t Obamacare solve all of our health insurance issues, according to Democrats such as this Senator Warner, who foisted Obamacare on us in the first place?????
This is all training people to accept socialism.
The real solution is to eliminate the insane workplace and employment laws and regulation that make hiring human workers a huge negative
Give free markets a chance to adjust to the pace of automation in a rational fashion without the intervention of the social engineers and and socialistic welfare grifters
Automation is a process that has been going on since the 18th Century at least
For every job lost to automation more than one job function is created
Ask any cosseted and coddled auto worker if they want to go back to the labor intensive ,non automated production lines of the early 1900’s . Most modern UAW workers wouldn't last half a shift on a 1920s Ford production line
Why does Google have to duplicate what they are doing?
I read somewhere a while back, that US corporations are having to train their new employees in basic reading, writing and arithmetic because they are not properly educated when they get out of school.
In the 1960s when I went to high school and college, the US was ranked #1 or #2 in all subject matters with the exception of maybe science, where the Asian students excelled.
With the advent of teachers unions and the liberals taking over education, the US now ranks 25th to 30th in the world in basic education. Right along many third world countries rankings.
Liberals have managed to screw the pooch again.
Google, the company that is more worried about employees being comfortable and having playtime than actually working.
Google was good once, but not any more. It is nothing but poorly written bloatware now.
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