A flaw in the Mac version of Zoom Video Communications’ software could allow any website to bring users onto a Zoom conference call and potentially see their video feed, according to a software engineer who discovered the vulnerability and blogged about it on Medium.
Over the weekend, Deutsche Bank announced it would cut a fifth of its workforce, leaving about 18,000 people without jobs. The struggling lender will reduce global headcount to around 74,000 employees by 2022.
A recent analysis by the Pew Research Center found that 16% US public elementary and secondary school teachers supplement their income with a non-school summer job. But the percentage is much higher for younger, newer teachers.
From the “forward-looking” disclaimers to the remarks from chief financial officers essentially restating what’s in the company press release, quarterly earnings calls haven’t changed much over the years—which is to say, they remain pretty boring.
Unlimited vacation is becoming a less unusual perk in the modern workplace. With technology enabling more jobs to be “on” 24/7 and employees placing greater value on work-life balance, the standard two weeks of vacation in the US is starting to sound outdated.
Among Airbnb’s more than 4 million listings, this is, perhaps, the most meta listing of them all: a tour of Airbnb’s headquarters in San Francisco, with a company employee as your guide.
Target announced that it will expand childcare benefits and family leave for 350,000 employees at its stores, warehouses, and headquarters office—regardless of whether they are full-time or part-time, salaried or hourly.
Zoom Video Communications disclosed its first quarterly results as a public company, and it didn’t disappoint.
In addition to being seen as lazy, self-entitled people and finding themselves accused of killing everything, millennials have gotten a bad rap for not staying in their jobs long enough. They puzzle employers who are trying to figure out new ways to retain them with all types of office perks, from snack bars to unlimited vacation, and alarm older colleagues who are certain that anyone who can’t stay in a job for more than two years is bound to have a rocky career.
Katharine Abraham, an economics professor at the University of Maryland, was chatting with her hairdresser one night about retirement plans. The economist said she plans to continue working because she wants to and has no plans for retiring. The hairdresser agreed but for different reasons: She needs the money.
Another class of college graduates is about to enter the workforce—and they’re not just looking for any job.
From Dara Khosrowshahi’s Uber to Adam Neumann’s WeWork, it’s a man’s world, still, at the top of the biggest IPOs in 2019.
Slack has found a new stock trading symbol that reflects where it wants to be.
Gone are the days of fetching coffee and running errands, at least for some internships. The highest-paid interns in America earn more than double the wage rate of the average US worker, according to job-reviews site Glassdoor.
There’s really no question at this point that Microsoft has managed to make itself relevant again. Under CEO Satya Nadella, the software giant has stormed the cloud computing business, revived its corporate culture, and in April surpassed $1 trillion in market value. But if you have any lingering doubts, consider what Microsoft’s rivals have to say about it.
Of all the distractions that come with working in an office, the biggest is not the room temperature or the traffic sounds from outside. It’s ourselves.
While Amazon and Walmart are regularly scrutinized over their workplace conditions for low-wage workers, recent job postings from the two retail giants paint a different story.
For years, Slack has been called an “email killer.” Founded in 2009 as an internal communications tool for the now-defunct gaming company Tiny Speck, Slack was created to solve the frustrations of the email’s isolated (and isolating) nature and its lack of transparency.
The popular workplace-advice site Ask A Manager, founded in 2007 by management consultant Alison Green, offers insight into some of the most personal and potentially embarrassing issues related to work. Topics range from the innocuous, such as whether to list being fluent in Klingon—a language in the Star Trek universe—on a resume, to more difficult questions such as whether to let a colleague know that he or she is about to be laid off.
Slack has become so ubiquitous in offices that it’s a verb: Can you Slack me that after our meeting? Are you busy? No, just Slacking. It’s also blurring the line between personal time and work more than ever—at least for traditional office workers.
Zoom, the developer of video conferencing software, is now a public company.
“Life is all about the pursuit of happiness. The greatest, most sustainable happiness comes from making others happy. Delivering happiness is what we do at Zoom,” notes Zoom founder and CEO Eric S. Yuan in the company’s S-1 filing.
While there are signs that some big tech firms are expanding outside the pricey San Francisco Bay Area, a new report from jobs site Indeed suggests they aren’t straying too far from their roots.
After putting his kids to bed in the evenings or while waiting in the Delta airport lounge, Eric Rea, co-founder and CEO of the software startup Podium, can often be found on his iPad. Playing Fortnite. With his employees.
