Building on its promise of annual background checks, Uber will now keep a real-time eye on charges being brought on drivers. The blacklisted ones will be abolished from being a member driver for the company. Similarly, if the charges are dropped the drivers will be assimilated back into the Uber network. The last four years have seen 103 drivers from the company accused of punishable offenses, with 31 convicted.
In recent past Google might have had the edge at luring critical talent from Apple, however, the joke is on the search engine this time around. It seems Facebook has procured the services of Shahriar Rabii, whose contributions were catered towards designing custom imaging chips for third-party apps. Come to think of it, perhaps Facebook made an offer which Rabii couldn’t refuse.
The company’s latest measures seek to normalize discipline amongst those who make light of office timings. Employees with no prior permission to be late till an approved threshold could be fired, sources report. The company is advocating its latest changes to be ‘fair and flexible’ towards all. Given that Tesla fired 9% of its workforce earlier, the implications seem more than just plausible.
Convene, the startup whose ideology extends beyond co-working into yoga, shadowboxing and scotch tastings has raised a Series-D round of $150 Million. The infusion would come in handy as the company has a formidable reputation of 'WeWork' to match. With investors like BlackRock Inc., Conversion Capital and Elysium Management placing their bets, Convene, would look towards London as its first non-US base in the near future.
With accusations of mishandling prior discriminatory cases creeping up her sleeves, Liane Hornsey has put down her papers. Uber’s HR head was being called forth to account for her dismissal of internal complaints of bias at the company by whistleblowers. Although, the nightmarish episode of Susan Fowler cased major detoxification, yet the haunting roots of Uber’s past appear to be deep-rooted and hard to unearth.
The real estate that’ll be landmarked by Disney’s latest office will be located at 4 Hudson Square, New York City. The company would, however, remain in Manhattan’s Upper West Side which has been sold to Silverstein properties for $1.5 Billion in a different transaction. Company CEO Bob Iger promises the new premises to be technological ahead with a future-proof architecture for those, now enviable, employed at the company.
Two wrongs don’t make one right if only the duo of Volkswagen & Nissan knew this. The latter admitted on Monday to having handed quality assessments of almost 2,500 cars to unauthorized personnel, subsequently embellishing emission records. A disregard for public and environment safety, the move calls in question the project planning, not to mention social responsibility, of Nissan who’d certainly not have a shortage of talent, or does it?
We’ve all heard stories of employees returning to avenge their firing sevenfold but this beats them all. A recently fired 38-year old employee of NSO Group Technologies gained access to the company’s flagship product Pegasus and attempted to auction it on the dark web. Caught in time, the Israeli state shall now carry out legislation noting that the sale could have jeopardized national security.
Accused of aiding Iran, ZTE was handed a seven-year ban by US regulators. The move prohibited the Chinese MNC to use American-made components. However, an exceedingly zealous ZTE board wanted to make amends in time seeing its stock price tumble. As a result, it fired its top line and replaced the same with one Xu Ziyang (new CEO), who they feel would inspire American confidence. Costs of staying in business!
The company exercises a public-hearing-cum-videoconferencing type peer review in which underperformers argue their employability. An X-ray of the process revealed that employees lose as much as 70% of the times, in which case their choices oscillate between severance pay or a prolonged probation period. The program’s inventiveness sidelined, what bothers people management experts is that the jury members aren’t HR practitioners but off-shore professionals designated in similar roles. Fair?
Workplace inclusion has pushed employers beyond their expected thresholds of experimental capacity, yet initiated personnel from the NAACP have offered free suggestions. Just in case. Few of the measures include auditing consumer profiles, economic security for the ground staff and a diverse leadership. The report was especially directed at the training efforts of Starbucks following the mishandled arrest of two black men in April at one of its’ outlets.
SalesForce’ lifeline, its employees, have petitioned a letter asking for a temporary suspension to the US Customs who happens to be a client. The latter’s questionable stance over immigrant deportation has sparked open protests in the major tech-solutions provider to the government. Earlier, Microsoft & Amazon employees made their frustrations known by a similar non-cooperation act.
Instead of grappling to hire 11th-hour candidates and risk customer experience, Kohl’s has begun staffing solutions 5 months in advance. Filing positions for its 300 outlets, experienced retail employees will be incentivized with 15% discounts on purchases along with competitive wages. The recruitment strategy is being lauded by the experts given the fact that Kohl’s would face stiff competition from Amazon & Walmart.
Though a relatively small number, yet, employers are opening up to the possibility of making employee salaries public. Having become a vote-bank political tool, perhaps the awakening of sooner than later has struck U.S employers like CareHere, FogCreek and Hired who plan to reveal the salary brackets for all profiles. It has been argued that transparent pay equities would contribute to the productivity upon justifying the worth of an individual.
The petition that gravitated the sign support of 2600 Googlers beseeches a safer workplace. A slew of complaints by people of color and the transgender demographic have led the company to tighten the nuts and bolts of its code of conduct. Google has pinned high hopes on the amended policies which now cover the content posted on internal forums (perhaps) to avoid another James Damore episode.
This is the predicament of more than 50% of German companies who are tussling with time to find able, interested people. While some have been forced into the compulsion of replacing retiring baby boomers, others are willing to make an offer people can’t refuse. The allure of extra days off, pay rise, even reduced working hours should ideally provide the catalyst to fill record vacancies. Tick tock.
Payroll Panda facilitates SME’s with UI friendly capabilities for payroll management. The Startup though claims to have 1000 clients, but it's their seed fund of $700,000 that proves investors see the scope of improvement in other competitive SaaS-based HR platforms. Payroll Panda is part of that elemental digital transformative change which will encourage SMEs to embrace the cloud technology.
Tact.ai, a CRM centric startup has managed the impossible - to raise money in the same round from the above trio. And understandably so. Tact is aiming to reduce the gulf between data entry and retrieval in a CRM to optimize sales through its voice interface. The business developing function needs much streamlining, seeing that major business imperatives are already being consulted with the AI.
Workout programs for employee wellness have either been copy-pasted or reinvented time and again. Perhaps that’s why businesses are increasingly leaning towards the likes of Exos, which remodels fitness programs combining that with post-workout meals. Given that the startup is serving 25 of Fortune 100 companies, it's safe to say, as employers sweat it out in the fight for retention, employees are assured a promising return.
A three-fourths share of the US smart speaker market & cross-industry partnerships for endless upselling opportunities, Amazon has reason aplenty to celebrate. And yet there looms a danger of down-staffing. How? If major hospitality chains implement convenient ordering with Alexa, what happens to in-house operators? A reallocation of roles! A far-fetched possibility perhaps, yet the repercussions appear fathomable for those whose job might hang by a thread, come the day.
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