Kenyans working at a company along Mombasa Road are part of Africans set to benefit by receiving a pay rise of Ksh20,000.
The pay rise comes two weeks after Time Magazine ran an exposé about how the content moderating company outsourced by Facebook paid its workers the poorly.
The salary increase represent a jump of between 30 per cent and 50 per cent for the employees will see the lowest paid staff take home Ksh50,000.
Billed hourly, the employees will receive Ksh250, a jump from the previous Ksh170. The workers spent a total of nine workers on their desks.
Before the review, the employees were the lowest paid employees under Meta, Facebook's parent company anywhere in the world.
The publication, in its follow up article, indicated that Abel Kamau, a human resources director at the company, announced plans to add the workers more money during a meeting at its headquarters.
He, however, refuted that the rise was due to the expose.
“The truth is that this conversation was still going to happen with these events occurring or not,” stated Kamau.
In an article published on Monday, February 14, by Time Magazine, some of the workers decried brutal working conditions at the company that was described as a 'sweatshop'.
The company had employed nearly 200 individuals tasked with watching 'videos of murders, rapes, suicides, and child sexual abuse.'
After viewing the videos and photos, they then remove or hide the banned content before it spreads far and wide and is seen by average users on the site.
Some of the employees had told the publication that they suffered 'mental trauma, intimidation, and alleged suppression of the right to unionise.'
