AOL's Patch Is A Sweatshop Of 70-Hour Work Weeks With No Vacation, Editor Says
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/aols-patch-is-a-sweatshop-of-70-hour-work-weeks-with-no-vacation-editors-email-suggests-2010-8
Today's Boston Globe story about Patch contains some noteworthy factoids about the scale of the rapidly growing AOL hyperlocal venture.
Like the fact that AOL is "spending $50 million to expand Patch nationally to hundreds of sites by the end of the year."
But before you go applying to be an editor at one of those sites, you might want to read the following email that one of Patch's local editors (there's typically one editor per site), sent to Northeastern University Journalism Professor Dan Kennedy.
The editor, who shared her thoughts anonymously (duh), said Patch editors work 70-hour weeks and are on call 24/7 without being able to take the vacation days promised them.
She writes: [...]
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/aols-patch-is-a-sweatshop-of-70-hour-work-weeks-with-no-vacation-editors-email-suggests-2010-8
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