In the news | Data.org
The Healthy Community Hub and Project Resolve, a multi-stakeholder collaboration that brings Microsoft Research’s social science, engineering, and computer science expertise to the table with the North Carolina CBO leaders. Microsoft’s team is building out the tool while also leveraging the…
In the news | Financial Times
As digital technologies become widespread in our lives, they have enormous potential to influence health and wellbeing. To get the most out of them, we need a new form of innovation focused on those who face the toughest barriers. And…
In the news | The Hill
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working on a proposal to massively scale-up testing and contact tracing to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. This effort will involve identifying all of those infected with the coronavirus and notifying everyone…
In the news | Harvard Business Review
More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and WFH, new research from Microsoft shows that employees and teams are becoming much more siloed. In particular, connections with people outside our immediate teams has shrunk dramatically, leading to fewer places…
In the news | TED2020
"We are living through the tech-enabled unraveling of full-time employment itself," says anthropologist Mary L. Gray. As the pandemic exposes and accelerates the shift to on-demand online labor, Gray takes us inside the jobs being created to solve the problems…
In the news | Medium
COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 120,000 people in the United States and debilitated millions more since arriving on our shores. While anyone can contract the virus, there is a pattern to who gets sick and dies from…
In the news | La Vanguardia
When I started working at Microsoft, we were worried that work automation would leave people jobless...
In the news | El Pais
The author and Mary Gray argues that platform work could make the work of hundreds of millions of people invisible and that this tends to alienate and precarious their situation. Ask for new laws and a new social contract...
In the news | C-SPAN
Mary Gray talked about her book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, in which she reported on the workforce that drives large technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Uber.