BiasMedium
Kronos Scheduling Algorithm Allegedly Caused Financial Issues for Starbucks Employees
- Occurred
- Aug 14, 2014
- Published
- Jun 3, 2015
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Kronos’s scheduling algorithm and its use by Starbucks managers allegedly negatively impacted financial and scheduling stability for Starbucks employees, which disadvantaged wage workers.
Developers
- Kronos
Deployers
- Starbucks
Harmed parties
- Starbucks employees
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithmic scheduling causing financial harm to workers fits bias/disparate impact category with medium severity due to reported employee impact.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8