Your Boss Is an Algorithm

How Work Became a Number, and Who Pays for Being Counted

Your manager used to be a person. Now it is a system that never explains itself. On the quiet transfer of workplace authority from people to software, and what a worker is owed when the number is wrong.

By Bennett Warde

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