This is how pay data can get the wage gap wrong

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When a company stays mum on the topic of pay equity, often, employees fill the void by crowdsourcing and sharing their own pay. This well-intentioned but misguided effort is dangerous because it often highlights issues that are not legitimate while masking the real problems.

Case in point: the New York Times released a piece on pay equity among journalism, advertising, and book publishing industry professionals entitled “On a Dry Spreadsheet, a Stark Difference: a $200,000 Pay Gap.” The article partly focused on a public spreadsheet called “Real Media Salaries” in which those in the industry self-reported pay data and included factors like race, gender and years of experience. And the headline was referring to one instance of a difference in pay between the following: “a white, male freelance creative director in New York with 28 years of experience reported a salary of $300,000. A Latino man with the same job description in New Jersey and 25 years of experience said he made $95,000.”

The intention was worthy, but the conclusions were just plain wrong.

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New smart glasses coming from Qualcomm and Pokemon Go creator Niantic

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There's a race for the next great pair of smart glasses. Apple is reportedly working on a pair. So is Facebook. And Niantic Labs, creator of AR phone games Pokemon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, said Thursday it's collaborating with Qualcomm on a reference design solution that will mix hardware, software and cloud services, using a just-announced ARVR Snapdragon XR2 chip for phone and PC-free headsets.

Unlike previous AR headsets like the Magic Leap and the HoloLens 2, which have been expensive and targeted at enterprise or deep-pocketed entrepreneurs, it sounds like Qualcomm and Niantic's plan is to find ways to make affordable AR smart glasses (and software) that everyday people might actually wear. There's no clear time frame for when this design might emerge, but it seems like it'll run parallel to existing efforts from other companies like Apple over the next few years.

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SubjectWell, Human API Partner to Provide Free Patient Medical Record Retrieval

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– Risk-free clinical trial marketplace, SubjectWell partners with data-sharing platform Human API to provide free record retrieval to clinical trial sites and sponsors. 

– The risk-free clinical trials marketplace will use Human API’s platform to simplify patient-approved health data collection and speed up the randomization process.

SubjectWell, the risk-free clinical trial marketplace has partnered with data-sharing platform Human API to provide free medical record retrieval to clinical trial sites and sponsors. Through this partnership, SubjectWell seeks to increase the speed of the randomization process and further bolster its risk-free offerings for sponsors.

Partnership Benefits

Medical record retrieval remains a pain point today for clinical trial sites, as considerable time and resources are dedicated to manually obtaining medical records before sites can confirm a diagnosis and enroll a patient into a study. With the Human API platform, SubjectWell can now give prospective participants a simple way to share their medical records – no matter where or how it was stored – in just a few minutes. SubjectWell can then send the electronic patient records along with their pre-screened at no additional cost beyond the per-randomized-patient price.

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STAG Buying Group To Partner With Myagi To Digitise Training And Communication

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With their impressive and growing roster of retailers, STAG’s decision to use Myagi is intended to strengthen these and any future relationships. STAG hopes to transform the narrative and expand its scope as a buying group through supporting members in their pursuit to digitize their business. STAG seeks to offer its partners value beyond just being a medium that bridges the gap between brands and retailers. Through Myagi, they can ensure that they are able to provide support and increased value to their growing group of retailers.

Myagi is a digital platform used to provide increased collaboration and support between brands and their retailers, in their pursuit of driving product sell-through and customer experience. As a platform, Myagi is well-known within the industry through their work with key retailers and brands in the sports and outdoor space, such as Asics, Burton McCall and New Balance – most of which STAG are already working with. This provides STAG with the ability to tap into the existing network and leverage the value of Myagi for its members. 

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