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>> Can anyone explain why O'Reilly thinks nobody knew until recently that companies are biased toward part-time work in order to avoid providing benefits?

> How do you know he's thinking that?

From the article:

> We had plenty of bias before but we couldn’t see it. We can’t see, for example, that the algorithms that manage the workers at McDonald’s or The Gap are optimized toward not giving people full-time work so they don’t have to pay benefits.

His thinking on the point seems pretty clear and the parent seemed to summarize it pretty well. I had the same question upon reading it and thinking back to the very prominent criticism that companies like Domino's and other fast food operators were taking for cutting workers' hours below the 32-hour max to avoid health care costs.

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As I said in the other arm of this mini comment thread: I am pretty sure most of the planet knew of the potential for these nasty tactics but the handful of people who could've done something chose to turn blind eye to it because it serves their financial interests and job security plans.