Testing Phase for Spotlight: Second Round
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Got a sneak peek at Spotlight, a privacy-preserving, worker-empowering tool, during a recent event with Prospect and Bectu teams from the UK. This bad boy is set to go public in March!
Unions can use Spotlight to boost their campaigns, monitor working hours, use of work apps, commuting time, and even work conditions - making it a game changer.
Yours is the Data!
What makes Spotlight stand out is that data belongs to the user, free from third-party snooping or undercover surveillance. You're the one in control, customizing what the app monitors - commute times, work-life balance, screen time, distances traveled, and more!
Had an exciting afternoon chatting with @CjColclough, @jonniepenn, and @ProspectUnion, @bectu teams. The future of work is up to us, and we're using #datagovernance to give the worker a louder voice. Check out the pics below! - Andrew Pakes (@andrew4mk) January 23, 2020
Spotlight: Wage Theft & Well-being
In union campaigns, Spotlight can help you uncover the creeping work hours into your personal life and expose wage theft, a growing concern and top workplace crime. By combating the "always-on" culture and promoting work-life balance, Spotlight can make a difference.
The Young Workers Lab - UNI Global Union
Set to launch in April 2020, Spotlight is an opensource app designed by the Young Workers Lab team at UNI Global Union, a multi-stakeholder collaboration aiming to empower workers through responsible tech use. Get to know our tech and union advisors!
Insights: Labor Rights Tools and Wage Theft
- Privacy and Data Protection: Top tools ensure privacy by safeguarding workers' identities and information, making them essential for sensitive labor disputes.
- Worker Empowerment: Such tools empower workers by providing them with organized resources to back their labor rights. This can include legal advice, documentation of violations, and tools for mobilizing support.
- Union Campaigns: In union campaigns, these tools can help analyze patterns of wage theft, build evidence, and enhance campaign effectiveness by centralizing data and coordinating efforts.
- Addressing Wage Theft: Wage theft is widespread, but tools like Spotlight can help by documenting incidents, identifying patterns, supporting legal cases, and raising awareness about its occurrence and impact.
- By harnessing the power of Spotlight, a privacy-preserving, worker-empowering tool, unions can address wage theft, a growing concern in the workplace, and promote a healthier work-life balance, thereby integrating health-and-wellness and fitness-and-exercise into employees' lifestyles.
- As an opensource app designed by the Young Workers Lab team at UNI Global Union, Spotlight intends to leverage science and technology to combat wage theft and reinforce union campaigns, ultimately fostering a culture of transparency and fairness in the workplace.
- During a recent event with Prospect and Bectu teams from the UK, it was revealed that Spotlight, due to be released in March, allows users to monitor their work hours, commuting time, screen time, and work conditions, effectively bridging the gap between technology and workplace-wellness.
- In an exciting announcement on January 23, 2020, Andrew Pakes shared insights on the future of work and the use of data governance to boost worker voices, demonstrating the potential impact of tools like Spotlight on travel patterns and intriguing questions about data privacy and its role in travel and lifestyle trends.
