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☆ A factory line of terrors: TikTok's African content moderators complain they were treated like robots, reviewing videos of suicide and animal cruelty for less than $3 an hour.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-01 | by ( Rosie Bradbury | Majd Al-Waheidi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

One former Majorel advisor estimated that 1,400 content moderators work just on the firm's TikTok contract across Morocco. While targets and goals varied between teams, six moderators told Insider that their goals were difficult to meet. A spokesperson for Majorel told Insider these targets were guidance and not individual targets. While Majorel told Insider that moderators have access to harm-mitigation tools, such as grayscale features, all of the moderators Insider spoke with said they didn't have access to any such feature. Five other Majorel moderators also said the company's wellness counselors weren't enough to help them with the pressures of the role.

☆ Millions still without sense of smell or taste after Covid-19
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-27 | by ( Evan Bush | Evan Bush Is A Science Reporter For Nbc News. He Can Be Reached At Evan.Bush Nbcuni.Com. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Still struggling with your sense of smell after a bout with Covid-19? About three quarters of those affected by loss of taste or smell regained those senses within 30 days. “You could track the pandemic across the globe” by analyzing Google searches about smell loss, Patel said. Patients who suffered smell loss after Covid-19 make up a unique subset, said Dr. “I’m now, in my clinic, starting to see an uptick again.”Treatments are available for people who have lost their sense of taste and smell due to Covid-19.

☆ A youth mental-health crisis is crushing working parents — and employers need to pay attention.
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-13 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The upshot: Today's working parents are under enormous pressure, and their stress has quickly gone from leaking into their professional life to crashing through the floodgates. It's up to employers, experts say, to help working parents manage their priorities and offer flexibility to face this daunting reality. Recognizing the pressures that exist for working parents right now is a good starting point. Importantly, she said, working parents need to be self-compassionate. "What our children need from us changes, and the roles we need to play for them change," she said.

☆ How the leader of a 20-person change management firm gave all their employees a 30-day paid sabbatical
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-22 | by ( Catherine Henderson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

This year, they introduced a month-long sabbatical for all employees to rest and reflect. Mack is a Black, nonbinary, queer, trilingual organizer based in Chicago, and they founded MMG, a research and change management firm that currently has 20 employees, most of whom are Black. This year, they launched a 30-day paid sabbatical for all 20 employees at MMG and permanently made the company's full-time workweek 30 hours. After the success of the sabbatical, MMG has committed to continuing the program again in 2022. In previous interviews with Insider, Mack spoke to their cutting-edge work during the pandemic.

☆ Primul transplant de organe de la porc la om ar putea avea loc anul acesta
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-12 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

Compania de biotehnologie United Therapeutics, cu sediul în Maryland, intenționează să înceapă chiar de anul acesta transplantul de organe de la porci modificați genetic. Scopul este de a compensa o parte din cererea masivă de organe pentru transplant care salvează viețile oamenilor. Transplantul de organe de la animale la oameni poate produce reacții imune severeExistă, însă, o problemă majoră: transplantul de organe animale în corpul uman poate duce la reacții imune severe. Cunoscute sub numele de porci GalSafe, animalele au fost modificate genetic pentru a nu avea zahăr alpha-gal pe suprafața celulelor. FDA nu a testat în mod explicit dacă persoanele cu AGS pot mânca carne de porc și nici nu a evaluat dacă porcii pot fi o sursă sigură de transplant la oameni.

Persons: David Ayares, Revivicor, gal Organizations: United Therapeutics, United, US, Resources, Services, gal, FDA Locations: Maryland, SUA

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