At Apple’s next shareholder meeting on Feb. 28, investors will vote on a proposal that, if passed, would force the company to create an “accelerated recruitment policy” with the aim of increasing diversity in its senior leadership and on its board of directors.
On Monday (Jan. 30), Sally Yates was fired from her position as acting US attorney general almost immediately after instructing the justice department not to defend president Donald Trump’s new immigration policies in court. Yates said she was not convinced that defending the executive order that establishes those policies was consistent with her responsibility to stand for what is right, nor was she was she convinced that the order was lawful.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, does not believe in the concept of impossible. He has proposed a solar-powered transit system that would travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than 30 minutes, and plans to make humans a “multi-planet species” by helping them colonize Mars.
The United States’ approach to immigration is changing dramatically under president Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order targeting illegal immigrants, and is soon expected to sign another that could indefinitely block certain refugees.
For a few hours on Jan. 31, McDonald’s will give Boston its first ”Big Mac ATM,” which is exactly what it sounds like. McDonald’s franchisee Vince Spadea called it a “really just a fun way to be modern and progressive.”
Peter Thiel, the Facebook board member and billionaire venture capitalist who is searching for people to lead US anti-trust enforcement, has some curious ideas about market manipulation and monopoly power, particularly when it comes to tech companies.
Developing robots that can serve as better nurses, teachers, or sales representatives means developing robots that can support humans. One scenario in which humans are in obvious need of emotional support is when they’re trying to date each other.
Mark Zuckerberg sits in the audience at a rodeo, the stadium around him festooned with red, white, and blue curtains. Next to him is Betsy Price, mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, her short blonde hair tucked under a cowboy hat. Zuckerberg has on his uniform: plain shoes, plain jeans, plain hoodie. He’s clearly out of place, some 1,600 miles from Silicon Valley, but smiling wide.
When life handed Mark Zuckerberg a lawsuit, he turned it into an opportunity to publicize his commitment to get acquainted with Middle America.
When it rains in drought-ridden San Francisco, more people than usual order a pizza for dinner. And to keep up with the demand, Papa Johns “orders” extra workers to deliver them.
Tucked halfway through US president Barack Obama’s farewell speech on Tuesday was a small nod to a big debate about the future of American employment.
If being swapped out for a robot is keeping you up at night, don’t panic yet: According to a new analysis from McKinsey, less than 5% of global occupations could be fully automated using current technology.
A machine squirts sauce onto pizza dough, and a robot arm spreads it into near-perfect circles. Next, a pivoting robot shelf transfers sauced pies into 800-degree ovens. They’ll finish baking inside delivery trucks, where individual ovens sync baking times with each pizza’s destination.
Very few companies hire 4,300 people in 18 months. But a presidential campaign does—while working hard and on a deadline.
A military hero, a spurned suitor, a tale of revenge and betrayal.
A contractor at Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Jacksonville, Florida sent the names and social security numbers of employees, vendors, and contractors to his home computer. A programming consultant at an insurance company in Wisconsin stole and sold social security numbers. And another contractor at the Bank of America leaked personal customer information to an identity-theft ring.
When employees at Gannett, the newspaper publisher that owns USA Today, returned to work after the New Year holiday this week, some of them were greeted by emails that implied they had been fired.
Making grammatical mistakes in your email subject lines correlates with fewer responses to your emails, suggests an analysis by the email management tool Boomerang.
Donald Trump made “bringing back jobs” a cornerstone of his campaign, and workers are campaigning for a federally mandated raise, to a minimum of $15 an hour. Most Americans, though, don’t really care much about who makes their stuff.
Annual performance reviews were not built for employees who want regular feedback, and perhaps that’s one reason they’re going out of style. Accenture, Adobe, Deloitte, Microsoft, and General Electric have all abandoned the yearly ritual.
We know that tech companies cooperated with a secret government surveillance program, that Uber employees have searched for specific passengers’ travel information, and that information is frequently stolen and leaked online (including potentially embarrassing personal details). But somehow, still, hundreds of thousands of people are creating transcripts of their deepest secrets and inner turmoil through online therapy apps.
“How are you?”
According to conventional wisdom, workers, especially young workers, value flexibility.
When Shivan Kaul Sahib, a senior at McGill University in Montreal, was applying for a job as a software engineer at Amazon, the company asked him to take a test to measure his skills, which would be administered remotely through online proctor ProctorU.
