![]() “We will share it with researchers and use it to inform conversations with Walmart. “We’re not going to sell the data, ever,” clarifies one of the WorkIt creators to Bloomberg. On the app’s page in the Android store, it explicitly states, “Your location, contacts, photos, and/or any associated financial information stored on your mobile device is not accessed or used by WorkIt.” So much so that the Wall Street Journal reports that the retailer is telling employees to not even download it.Īccording to the Journal, Walmart HQ sent a memo to store managers, instructing them to tell workers that the WorkIt app is just a scheme to collect employees’ personal information “by using deceptive and slick looking social media and mobile apps.”īloomberg quotes a statement from Walmart’s labor relations folks, explaining that “if someone tries to get you to download an OUR Walmart work-related app on your mobile device, you may unknowingly be giving away valuable personal information like your location and personal contact information that the union can use however it wants.”īut the app’s developers say that WorkIt doesn’t track users’ locations. ![]() Yet this app, only a few days into its existence, is apparently rubbing Walmart HQ the wrong way. In that way, WorkIt is not that different from having a Facebook group, and there are a number of public and private groups like that already in existence. Registered users can also share stories and chat with each other. Some of those questions will be answered by humans, but the app has used IBM’s Watson technology to put together replies to hundreds of the most common questions a Walmart worker might have. OUR Walmart, a group that was formerly backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, recently launched an Android app called WorkIt that lets Walmart workers ask questions - anonymously, if they choose - about company policy and employees’ rights. Now the nation’s largest retailer is reportedly warning employees to not download an app from a labor group that can be used for workers to connect and organize outside of Walmart’s gaze. Walmart has been repeatedly accused of retaliating against, and covertly monitoring, employees who have protested for improved conditions and higher wages. 11.15.16 10:20 AM EDT By Chris Morran talk amongst yourselves walmart OUR Walmart
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