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Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, vlog; Professor of Sociology, FAS

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May 2025, Paper: "Employer use of algorithms to hire [81, 108], schedule [68, 127], have led to increasing calls to regulate AM practices to prevent further worker harms. Yet existing work in aligning software with the law reduces compliance to just one piece of the entire process of regulating AM—which involves rule operationalization, software use, and enforcement. We interviewed key stakeholders involved in enforcing or complying with workplace scheduling law—regulators, advocates, defense attorneys, scheduling managers, and workers (𝑁 = 38). Based on their beliefs and experiences, we describe how scheduling software affects beliefs about and compliancewithwork place scheduling law. In so doing, we discuss the challenges and opportunities in designing software as a tool for regulating..."