I mean, hooray, there’s a study that shows this, woooo!!!
… but anyone with a disability can easily tell you that basically every company discriminates against the disabled, have for decades.
They just don’t outright say it, and will justify it by pointing to things that are caused by your disability but are not literally, directly your disability.
Oh, you have a lapse in your employment history, or a spotty employment history in general, due to the onset or continuing nature of your disability?
Well clearly that has nothing to do with your disability, you’re just a bad candidate, an inconsistent worker.
Oh, you want a job that can easily be done remotely, from home, if we just mailed you the laptop we give all our office employees in person, because you are disabled and commuting to and from an office is much more difficult and painful, or constant social enironments are unbearable for you?
Hah, no, remote working is only for highly qualified candidates.
The problem is, when you can prove discrimination from human headhunters, you can sue them. When the company hides behind an algorithm, they simply say they went by what the algorithm recommended and they’re off the hook.
Even before the additional layer of algorithmic, now AI screening, its not like the disabled, out of work, likely financially fucked person can afford a lawyer.
Well, things certainly weren’t easy or rosy when humans did the discrimination. But at least there was the possibility of holding them accountable, either by disabled individuals or by associations. When companies let machines do the discrimination, they shield themselves from responsibility, making violations all the more egregious: without consequences, there won’t even try to exercize restraint.
I mean, hooray, there’s a study that shows this, woooo!!!
… but anyone with a disability can easily tell you that basically every company discriminates against the disabled, have for decades.
They just don’t outright say it, and will justify it by pointing to things that are caused by your disability but are not literally, directly your disability.
Oh, you have a lapse in your employment history, or a spotty employment history in general, due to the onset or continuing nature of your disability?
Well clearly that has nothing to do with your disability, you’re just a bad candidate, an inconsistent worker.
Oh, you want a job that can easily be done remotely, from home, if we just mailed you the laptop we give all our office employees in person, because you are disabled and commuting to and from an office is much more difficult and painful, or constant social enironments are unbearable for you?
Hah, no, remote working is only for highly qualified candidates.
The problem is, when you can prove discrimination from human headhunters, you can sue them. When the company hides behind an algorithm, they simply say they went by what the algorithm recommended and they’re off the hook.
Even before the additional layer of algorithmic, now AI screening, its not like the disabled, out of work, likely financially fucked person can afford a lawyer.
Well, things certainly weren’t easy or rosy when humans did the discrimination. But at least there was the possibility of holding them accountable, either by disabled individuals or by associations. When companies let machines do the discrimination, they shield themselves from responsibility, making violations all the more egregious: without consequences, there won’t even try to exercize restraint.