They work today – whether in the office, warehouse or your car can mean constant electronic supervision with little transparency, and potentially with consequences that end in life if your productive flags.
But what is important even more than the effects of this ubiquitous privacy monitoring can be as all data is transferred to the relationships between workers and managers, companies and their workforce.
We are in the middle of the shift in the work and attitude in the workplace as important as the other industrial revolution of late 19. and the beginning of the 20th. Century. And new policies and protection may be needed to correct the power balance. Read the whole story.
-Rebecca ackermannn
One option for electric vehicle fires? Let them burn.
Although there are no solid data on the frequency of EV batteries, it is not a secret that these fires happen.
Nevertheless, manufacturers offer standardized steps on how to fight them or avoid in the first place. Moreover, with EVS, it is never completely clear whether the fire is truly exposing it. Cars can ignite, or renew, weekly or even months after damage to the battery, or at first the battery fire is initially repressed.
Patrick Durham, owner of one of the increasing numbers of private companies that help the first answers to learn how to deal with the security of lithium-ion battery, has a solution. He believes that the best way to manage EV fires now to let them burn. But such an approach is not only against the instinct firefighter – would require a significant cultural shift. Read the whole story.
