Tomás Arrieta

Reporter, Work, Seattle

Tomás Arrieta covers work and the people who are monitored, scored and managed by software. He has written about warehouse quotas, domestic workers and performers, and reports in English and Spanish.

At The Overseen since April 3, 2023 (3 years).

Stories

• Oct. 20, 2026 Sense/Net’s crowds are trained on 41 million frames from a partner in Tokyo. Its consent rules don’t cover them.
• March 24, 2026 A Seattle household-staff agency rewrote its rule about nights. Then it wrote one down about phones.
• March 17, 2026 Sense/Net performers can withdraw their recordings. They can’t find out what its crowd generator learned from them.
• Sept. 23, 2025 A nanny walked out of a Medina house after the children’s bedtime. Two weeks later, no one will say her name.
• July 1, 2025 “Part of the household’s night”: a house manager says a Seattle agency’s rules kept her on call for seven years