Over the past three months, I interviewed a dozen current and former employees of Cognizant in Phoenix.
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A content moderator working for Cognizant in Arizona, on the other hand, will earn just $28,800 per year.
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Most of these moderators are contract workers, employed by firms like Accenture or Cognizant in offices around the world.
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All had signed non-disclosure agreements with Cognizant in which they pledged not to discuss their work for Facebook — or even acknowledge that Facebook is Cognizant's client.
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The Verge has previously interviewed Facebook moderators working for Accenture competitor Cognizant in Phoenix, Arizona, and Tampa, Florida, who have been diagnosed with PTSD after viewing violent and disturbing content.
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In fact, he's so cautiously cognizant in his modesty—save for a few Instagram-worthy modelling posts here and there—that he doesn't even credit himself on many of the projects he's part of.
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In June 2018, The Verge reported that Keith Utley — a 42-year-old employee at a Facebook moderation office operated by Cognizant in Tampa, Florida — died of a heart attack on the job a year prior.
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" On the day he become commissioner in January 2015, Manfred said, "I&aposm cognizant in the drop in offense over the last five years, and it&aposs become a topic of conversation in the game, and it&aposs something that we&aposre going to have to continue to monitor and study.
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ProPublica has called Facebook's enforcement of hate speech rules "uneven," explaining thatFacebook's use of human content moderators came under scrutiny in June whenThe Vergereported that Keith Utley — a 42-year-old employee at a Facebook moderation office operated by Cognizant in Tampa, Florida — died of a heart attack on the job a year prior.
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Those who weren't alive or were barely cognizant in 1973 might be hard-pressed to believe the circus-like atmosphere that surrounded this televised showdown, with Riggs -- a notorious tennis hustler, looking for thrills and a payday at the age of 55 -- dreaming up the idea of playing against a top-ranked woman, eagerly feeding off the publicity as a male chauvinist pig eager to strike a blow against women's lib.
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Arjun joined Cognizant in 2009 after completing his graduation. Apart from English, he speaks Tamil and Malayalam fluently, and sings in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Urdu.
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Idea Couture's multidisciplinary team, IC team, Accessed July 12, 2015. The company was acquired by Cognizant in July 2016.Cognizant Acquires Idea Couture, a Digital Innovation, Strategy, and Design Firm , Acquisition, Accessed July 28, 2016.
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Mirabeau B.V. is a digital agency headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Mirabeau has offices also in Eindhoven, and Rotterdam — both in the Netherlands — Paris, and Guangzhou. It employs about 300 people. The company was acquired by Cognizant in 2016.
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The early part of his career was spent with Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation. He received his Bachelors of Business Administration with Honors, from the University of Ulster in 1996. He took over as the CEO of Cognizant in April 2019.
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In February 2018 the UK and Irish press expressed concerns about contractors employed by Cognizant in Dublin as part of the outsourcing contract with Google about the conditions of employment in relationship to compensation and basic employment allowances like sick leave.
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After his graduation from Tepper School of Business (Carnegie Mellon University), Francisco joined Dun & Bradstreet as a management associate in 1992. Cognizant began in 1994 as an in-house project of Dun & Bradstreet, led by Francisco. During the years from 1996, he held various leadership roles at Cognizant. He was elevated to CEO and joined the Board of Directors of Cognizant in January 2007, and promoted to the Vice Chairman of the Board in June 2018.
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Cognizant leads the ranks of companies receiving H-1B visas from the United States. The company has been steadily increasing its U.S. work force. In January 2011, the company announced plans to expand its U.S. delivery centers, including a new 1,000-person (0.4% of worldwide workforce) facility in Phoenix, Arizona. In February 2011, Cognizant said it had 60 full-time recruiters actively hiring in the U.S. In 2009, an investigation by the US Department of Labor (DoL) found Cognizant in violation of the H-1B provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Administrative Act.
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The Verge published a follow-up investigation of Cognizant's Tampa, Florida, office in June 2019. Employees in the Tampa location described working conditions that were worse than the conditions in the Phoenix office. Content moderator Keith Utley suffered a heart attack while working for Cognizant in March 2018 and died in a hospital; the Tampa office lacked an on-site defibrillator. Moderators were required to sign non-disclosure agreements with Cognizant to obtain the job, although three former workers broke the agreements to provide information to The Verge.
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The committee found various irregularities, including the existence of omnibus accounts, that allowed some market players to make exorbitant profits at the expense of the retail investors. Among the 60 identified primarily included chairman of Beximco and the mastermind of the 1996 market crash Salman F Rahman, former DSE president Rakibur Rahman, SEC chairman Ziaul Khandaker, SEC member Mansur Alam and BNP politician Mosaddek Ali Falu. The report mentioned that pro-government business tycoons, including Salman and Rakibur, exerted influence within the SEC by influencing the appointment of its members. The report ended with recommendations to reform the SEC drastically and asked the government to publish the names of the influential players and to remain cognizant in countering their influences.
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