Workers progress through modules on a low-cost tablet, tagging and annotating digital assets as they go.
Though the city is short of its goal of providing subsidized housing to 60percentt of local workers, progress is being made.
The company is training — and paying — hundreds of employees to recruit their colleagues, holding off-site retreats for participants (a rarity for hourly workers) and tracking workers' progress in written reports that measure participation rates.
Despite a recent strike by construction workers, progress on all 10 World Cup stadiums appears to be on schedule, with the flagship Soccer City, which will host the final, now a spectacular addition to the Soweto skyline.
There are also concerns that while improvements have been made to the conditions for workers, progress on new laws remains slow and the fate of those building the wider infrastructure remains at risk.
The current job climate is structured to slow or stop their advancement at every turn: erroneous complaints that low-wage work is "low-skilled" work, that most low-wage workers are "teens looking for supplementary cash" and that low-wage workers simply haven't tried to "attain an education" halt workers' progress toward securing a living wage.
Consultancy and jobs site Timewise, which is leading the campaign, hopes to shake up the way employers approach those candidates who want flexible working by offering advice on how to advertise flexible jobs, how to tailor work to the right candidates and how to help part-time workers progress in their roles.
As one software engineer, Eric Flatt, puts it, "We are a company built by engineers for engineers". And most engineers, not just those at Google, want to spend their time designing and debugging, not communicating with bosses or supervising other workers' progress.
Overeducation incidence within the cohort decreases as workers progress through their careers but remains sizeable 12 years after the first job.
