Dan Greene: $6.5 billion of ADA violations imo. — Subium • Bluesky web client

$6.5 billion of ADA violations imo.

"As of 2021, 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies were using psychometric instruments to assess employees, and a sprawling personality testing sector is expected to be a $6.5 billion industry by 2027." hedgehogreview.com/issues/missi...

Sorting the Selfhedgehogreview.com The self has never been more securely an object of classification than it is today.

Hiring Discrimination by Algorithm: A New Frontier for Civil Rights and Labor Lawwww.americanbar.org Hiring discrimination has long impacted people in marginalized groups, but now discrimination can happen via algorithm without direct human involvement at all.

Never met Kyle Behm, despite writing about his case for a decade. We wouldn't know half this stuff without him. Was devastated to learn of his death by suicide. He could pick the fight he picked bc of privilege, sure, but also bc his dad wanted to talk about his bipolar disorder--too rare.

When I first encountered this (in Denmark) it was positioned as an anti-bullying measure! Candidates for jobs with managerial responsibility had to do a psychometric screening for traits that were supposedly risk factors for bullying. Never done one for a U.S. job though (maybe due to luck).

Yeah I've seen that in the big consultancies here. What really shocked us (probably shouldn't have) when reading up on the modern history of these things were the 1) totally contradictory pitches (great for slack AND tight labor markets) 2) branding as medical exams, which is prima facie illegal

(Or should be)

The Risk Society is in full swing

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