
All work and no pay: Internships are a a ubiquitous feature of the job market. If you’re a young person in school or with newly minted diploma, odds are you are looking to kickstart your career with some interesting (and paid) work experience. Currently American organizations save $2 billion a year on such unpaid labor, according to The Economist. The logic behind internships is simple: interns value experience over income, while businesses are trying to keep costs low. But do internships really endow the interned with meaningful training for future work, and do businesses really benefit from an extra hand to fetch copies and coffee? Many people in the technology and design fields would say no.
