Streets laden with CCTV, AI-powered real-time surveillance insights and mandatory face scans to buy toilet paper. To this array of nerve-wracking supervisory controls, scientists have added an emotional surveillance technology, just in case. Once functional, the tech would be capable of detecting employee behaviors even sending people off-work, if required.
It’s neither of the two, but a voluntary resignation for Whatsapp’s co-founder Jan Koum, who in his post on Facebook’s said he’s “taking time off to do things... outside of technology”. Although coming from the man himself, yet the words have proven insufficient to bury the rumors suggesting, there had been a clash over company’s future strategies.
Shocks keep coming thick-n-thin for Facebook. The latest is from a cyber-security firm founder Jackie Stokes, who alleges an engineer of the company of abusing his privileges & stalking the opposite sex. The timing couldn’t have been worse for Facebook’s who have been licking their wounds following Mark Zuckerburg’s public hearing. The matter having been reported to the social network, is being investigated.
The search engine’s latest capabilities will allow users to browse through most-pertinent job listings on the homepage. Search criteria would require the term Jobs, to be followed by the name of the industry. In addition, netizens could hop-on to an advertised position customizing the filters on the Jobs page. The changes come on the back of a series of updates that have strong-armed website owners to follow ethical content practices.
If employers were to grope for an answer to this, they could perhaps avoid appearing on the “Dirty Dozen” list. The council that curates the ranking, gauges workplace safety measures. This years’ list has everyone frowning, as the likes of Amazon & Tesla have made the cut. While the management could excuse itself upon sharing the pedestal with LOWE’s & IHOP, it’s probably time to effectively work towards employee well-being.
Tracy Ryans worked at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission for 9 years. That was until March of this year when she was fired for allegedly failing to secure client data. However, her ex-employer did the same boo-boo when it dispatched a box full of customer information to Tracy’s address. Luckily, the latter isn’t rooting for wrongful termination and busy looking for a new start.
The court ordered the retailer to pay Damien, an employee, a sum of €65,000, as the latter recuperates from a fractured elbow having slipped in the loo. The case calls into light a care-free attitude towards facility-management, wherein Tesco installed average tiles in restrooms, increasing the likelihood of slippages. The accident, waiting to happen, should push Tesco-authorities into ensuring better workplace safeguards.
Singapore’s cabinet is being re-shuffled. The move which is designed to assert a younger POV (Point of View) will give chance to ministers of relatively young political representatives. One such face happens to be of Mrs. Josephine Teo, who’ll assume her duties as the country’s latest Minister of Manpower. Emptying the chair for her will be Mr. Lim Swee Say, having spent three years in the position.
Quality may never come cheap, but talent certainly does! Which is why companies like Amazon, Google & Microsoft go headhunting abroad. In the last two years, the likes of such tech giants have been pushing for greater H-1B applications to pass through. Though foreign minds contribute significantly to innovation in the Americas, perhaps one ought to think of a large number of Americans vying for similar positions.
A deaf Uber drivers’ FYI-appeal to his riders, has caught the eye of the world. The cabbie named Onur had pinned a note, informing cab-takers of his impaired hearing until one of his customers shared its image on twitter. And the rest is history. The heart-melting one-pager, requesting people to feel comfortable in the car is winning people over as the re-tweets continue to pour in.
An upward Y-o-Y, no wonder Google’s parent company recorded an annual revenue, greater than the size of a few small economies. On top of adding a talent force of 5,000, the tech-giant boasted a revenue of $31.1 Billion within the first quarter. Alphabet now stands strong at 85,050 employees & if the signs are anything to go by, ‘tis just getting started.
The entertainment company which has gotten people addicted to its productions surely knows how to keep its top dog happy. Reed Hastings, who prioritizes content over technology, was handsomely paid $24.4. million in 2017, pre-tax. The median employee compensation for the media company was more than $183,300 for the same year.
One of the major employers in Morgantown city of West Virginia, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, went haywire with their laying-off spree. The company on Friday released as much as 500 employees quoting “regulatory expectations” as a pretext for “rightsizing” their manufacturing facility. Though the company would still be a source of livelihood for 3,000 people in Morgantown, the fate of those losing their job-status seems doomed for now.
It’s fair, square and simple. Imagine if such were to be the demarcation between you and the top-executives of your company. This debate is a disappointing reality for many working at Walmart, some of whom got a chance to raise their voice at the Hypermarket’s annual investor meeting. The staff, represented by Ms Carolyn Davis, kept their case for fully compensated family leaves.
China, which has in the past gone beyond rhetoric while punishing Japanese & South Korean companies, faces a tougher challenge with the USA. In the ongoing sledging between Beijing & Washington D.C, are sandwiched those who thank the American MNC’s for their bread-n-butter. Should there be a trade war, it’d be interesting to see the tolerance level of the People’s Republic, who might incur a greater casualty count. (“eventually” would not go with “might”).
The retailer who was facing an ongoing backlash from the employees has blinked. The employees who were earlier confined to white-n-blue (for shirt-n-jeans respectively) have now been given the relaxation of shirt colors. The pilot-trials, which are being supervised at limited locations, have garnered much appreciation from the workforce. To paraphrase Kory Lundberg, Walmart spokesperson, upon complete assessments the changes shall be made permanent.
This work-ethic was adopted by Marissa Meyer, back in the day when she used to run the show at Yahoo. In an interview with the New York Times, Marissa opened up about this practice which she learned working as a Google employee, earlier in her career. She further elaborated that salaries should be an incentivizing factor, but not the driving force behind workplace motivation.
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The coffee-maker will be pulling the shutters down on its outlets on May 29 to conduct a massive nationwide training for the employees. The workforce will be educated regarding the preventive penicillin against Racial Bias, an issue which seems to have stung the brand. The pro-active measures are being hurried into place following the arrest of two African-American men at one of its locations in Philadelphia.
Call it the power struggle or damage control, but Herbert Diess has succeeded in claiming the throne of Volkswagen to his name. The veteran, who will succeed Mathias Mueller, is keen on reinstating stakeholder-interests, coming on the back of their diesel emission scandal. When only two months into VW, Mr. Diess provided a glimpse of his character, battling the labor union & saving the company €3.7 billion.
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Coming on the back of a deadly scandal that involved a breach of trust, arguably, there’s no end to Facebook’s worries, it seems. Reportedly, the company’s HR-units are about to get their hands full of succession planning deliverables, let alone a ton load of internal transfer requests. The source of this rising clamor, has been traced to the product team linked with the data leak.
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