As firms increasingly rely on artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, many highly qualified candidates are finding themselves on the cutting room floor.

an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed “baseball” or “basketball” – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned “softball” – typically women – were downgraded.

Marginalised groups often “fall through the cracks, because they have different hobbies, they went to different schools”

  • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    If the service is bad, then I’m going pretty much anywhere else, McDonald’s is not worth putting up with crap service.

    The strategy of McDs has been to saturate the market. You’ll find more of their franchises per capita in your neighborhood than any other food retailer.

    Starbucks employs a similar strategy.

    I’ve lived in a few spots where people would talk about the “bad McDs” versus the “good McDs”. And the split would inevitably be economic, with the richer neighborhood that could pay the better wages commanding a staff that was more professional.

    But the franchise overall never suffered. They made money hand over fist at both locations.