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Jay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 7d

One reason I like to post reviews of research papers on @paperstarsorg.bsky.social instead of @pubpeer.com: they actually pass moderation.

The same neutral, substantive comment gets very different results.

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 7d

Además, si eres vecino de un edificio blanco, sabrás lo molesto que es el reflejo de la luz intensa que proyecta sobre tus ventanas. Aunque supongo que será peor cuando la fachada es de vidrio.

EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 7d

Proliferan desde hace años en ciudades de toda España. Edificios clónicos característicos por sus franjas blancas y negras. Son los bloques cebra, y reciben furibundas críticas entre algunos arquitectos, que los califican de ‘fast food’ inmobiliario

La invasión de los ‘bloques cebra’: ‘el fast food’ inmobiliario

Reconocibles por sus franjas negras y blancas, la proliferación de estos edificios clónicos en toda España genera debate entre arquitectos y promotores

social.elpais.com

Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 9d

Hoy hablamos de si el #teletrabajo llegó para quedarse o para marcharse, en la jornada sobre la Carta de Derechos Digitales y Negociación Colectiva organizada por @ugtcomunica.bsky.social

Eva Rimbau, José Varela y un moderador, sentados en un escenario. En la gran pantalla que tienen detrás se lee ¿El teletrabajo llegó para marcharse?

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 9d

IA y empleo: afecta mucho al empleo joven en actividades muy expuestas a #IA

Francisco Herrero Triguero en su exposición sobre la relación en IA y empleo

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 14d

Also: bsky.app/profile/sora...

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 15d

“Our results establish that people are more likely to request unethical behavior from machines than to engage in the same unethical behavior themselves,” the paper concludes

Using AI Increases Unethical Behavior, Study Finds

A new study in Nature reveals that people who use AI tend to be more dishonest compared to when they don't use AI for tasks.

futurism.com

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 14d

2/2 Kate Niederhoffer et al. on #workslop --content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

hbr.org

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 14d

Poor-quality #genAI content is damaging more than we realize.
See:

1/2 @toffeeman68.bsky.social et al. on #botshit --Chatbot generated content that is not grounded in truth and is then uncritically used by a human in communication and decision making
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beware of botshit: How to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots

Advances in large language model (LLM) technology enable chatbots to generate and analyze content for our work. Generative chatbots do this work by pr…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 14d

Bonus: research references
Van Dijcke, D., Gunsilius, F., & Wright, A. (2024). Return to Office and the Tenure Distribution. doi.org/10.2139/ssrn....
Li, T. (2024). The Impact of Apple's RTO Policy on Employee Motivation. doi.org/10.54254/275....

Return to Office and the Tenure Distribution

With the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic, debates about the return to office have taken center stage among companies and employees. Despite their ubiquity

doi.org

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 14d

Post 6/6
Senior leadership isn't stupid: if the end result has to be losing key #talent along with "non-key" talent anyway, it's reasonable to proceed via the cheaper route.

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 14d

5/6
Consequently, it makes more sense for the company to choose the less costly route: impose an RTO or any other measure that makes staying with the company less attractive.

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 14d

4/6
For these professionals, flexibility is non-negotiable.
Now, after collective layoffs something similar happens: the most talented profiles also end up leaving because trust and commitment to the company are damaged.

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 14d

3/6
The problem is that the people who tend to leave under these circumstances aren't exactly the "expendable" ones.
They're mostly experienced professionals with higher qualifications who have good external opportunities.

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 14d

2/6
They do, however, generate a drop in job satisfaction and an increase in #turnover.
So why implement them? One possible explanation: they aim to reduce headcount at the lowest cost, promoting voluntary resignations without resorting to mass #layoffs.

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 14d

1/6 🧵
Organizations with return-to-office policies (#RTO) policies lose their best talent, but they probably don't care.
Recent research suggests that mandatory RTO do NOT improve financial performance, productivity, or company value

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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 15d

The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver.

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

hbr.org

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 17d

What are the “right” uses for technology is decided based on the priorities of decision-making elites.
The general population can have limited influence through their vote in democratic institutions, but many institutions aren't democratic, and popular preferences can also be shaped by elites.

Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 18d

Anyway, what I was trying to illustrate in that story is the ease with which a technology can move from “that’s unethical” to “we need it for operational efficiency / security / some other excuse”. Meanwhile policy and org culture struggle or fail to keep up with changing demands and capabilities.

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 18d

😱That feels like such a betrayal of what universities should stand for.

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 18d

"While employment shifts away from routine occupations, work processes within many non-routine professional roles are becoming increasingly routinised and subject to digital control"

Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 18d

#report
Work in the Digital Era: How Technology is Transforming Work and Occupations
publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 18d

#report
Work in the Digital Era: How Technology is Transforming Work and Occupations
publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 21d

El primer #MadridBarcelona matiner del curs 2025-26.
Avui, reunió de totes les Direccions Acadèmiques de la Facultat i, demà, plenària del professorat per seguir millorant la nostra docència i l’aprenentatge dels estudiants.

Vista del paisatge de matinada des del tren d’alta velocitat

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 27d

A limitation is that the interviews were conducted during Covid, when circumstances were far from normal: life outside the home (and #remotework) was restricted, #stress was higher, and #socialconnection reduced.
This prevents generalization to today, when life is largely normalized.

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · 29d

New article "argues that the increased autonomy afforded to employees by remote work is paradoxical. Many interviewees worked longer hours and experienced work intensification, as well as an unwelcome blurring of the work and home spheres"

👉 doi.org/10.1177/0022...
#psychosocialworkplacehazards

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑥, 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑧𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · Sep 8

This article examines the concept of employee #delight as a distinct construct within organizational behavior.
We identify 4 theoretical perspectives, analyze current measurement approaches, and develop a model that articulates its antecedents & consequences
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Employee Delight: Conceptualization, Antecedents, and Consequences

This article examines the concept of employee delight as a distinct construct within organizational behavior. Based on a systematic literature review, we analyze 10 empirical studies that explicitly ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · Sep 8

¿𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗮 𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹?
El próximo 1 de octubre, 18:30h, en CaixaForum de Valencia.
Hablaremos de #teletrabajo, dirección algorítmica, privacidad, igualdad, salud...
caixaforum.org/es/valencia/...

¿Cómo proteger los derechos laborales en la era digital? | Mesa redonda | CaixaForum València

En esta sesión analizaremos el impacto de las tecnologías y nuevas formas de trabajar en nuestros derechos laborales: oportunidades, retos y las leyes actuales.

caixaforum.org

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.bsky.social · Sep 2

Segunda parte del texto de Hugo Rodriguez Mendizabal sobre la economía del genocidio aplicada al caso de Gaza. Orgullo de @nadaesgratis.bsky.social

Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · Sep 2

Palestina: la rentabilidad de un genocidio (II) nadaesgratis.es/hugo-rodrigu... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Palestina: la rentabilidad de un genocidio (II)

Escribía ayer que son hechos incontestables: (1) la ofensiva de Israel en Gaza desde octubre de 2023 arroja un número de víctimas civiles, y especialmente de niños, absolutamente intolerable y que con...

nadaesgratis.es

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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · Sep 2

But I needed something more integral.
After several iterations:
Live consciously and generously, combining intellectual rigor with support for the people in my life.

Having this clear sense of purpose gives me good energy for the heavy workload ahead in September.
Anyone else do similar exercises?