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Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Meta is discontinuing Horizon Workrooms and Meta Horizon managed services, amidst its many VR layoffs.

DNA Mutations Discovered in The Children of Chernobyl Workers : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-mutations-discovered-in-the-children-of-chernobyl-workers

Spooked by AI and Layoffs, White-Collar Workers See Their Security Slip Away (Rachel Louise Ensign/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/white-collar-workers-job-anxiety-d8f83885
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p152#a251216p152

The latest info we have on the timeline of the murder of Renee Good is that she still had a weak pulse when city emergency workers first reached her. She still had a weak pulse.
Before emergency workers arrived, a doctor on the scene attempted to render first aid. ICE pointed their guns at the doctor and forced them back.
It is possible — we can never know, of course — but it is possible that doctor could have saved Good’s life. The ICE agents who forced back that doctor should also face charges. In a just world….

John Paulson, a hedge fund billionaire and one of Donald Trump’s earliest Wall Street backers,
is planning to offshore an Ohio manufacturing plant to China despite heavy pushback from employees.
Workers at the plant call the move “a slap in our face”,
after Paulson vocally defended domestic manufacturing, and are fighting to keep the plant open.
Conn Selmer, the largest US manufacturer of brass and orchestra instruments,
told the union it planned to offshore mos…

May every brave sex worker at every brothel unionize for fairer working conditions https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-workers-at-pahrump-brothel-are-unionizing-alleging-unfair-contracts-and-conditions

Sex workers at Pahrump brothel are unionizing, alleging unfair contracts and conditions
In the last week, the brothel has fired three workers who challenged a new contract that they say is unfair. Lawyers have filed an injunction with the federal labor board.

🗾 Japan is betting big on AI. Few workers have used it.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/02/japan/society/ai-awareness-japan-jobs/
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Japan is betting big on AI. Few workers have used it.
Surveys show strong public confidence, despite shallow workplace adoption and unresolved cultural concerns.

To Address Farm Labor Shortage, Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers (Linda Qiu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/us/politics/farm-labor-trump-migrant-workers-h2a.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p12#a260315p12

Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/indias-emversi…

India's Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can't replace | TechCrunch
Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India.

Hundreds of unionized University of California workers circled the Arbor,
in front of the Library at UC Santa Barbara on Thursday
at what organizers called a “last chance” practice picket
— a visible warning that a strike could be days away if contract talks continue to stall.
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UAW Workers Stage ‘Last Chance’ Practice Picket at UC Santa Barbara
About 300 unionized UC workers marched through campus Thursday in a coordinated statewide action organizers described as a “last chance” signal to university leaders.