by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 27, 2022 | Business, Latest News
The future is uncertain for Twitter employees after the board accepted a $44 billion offer from Tesla CEO Elon Musk to buy the popular social media platform and take it private on Monday. “Once the deal closes, we don’t know which direction the platform will go,”...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 26, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
Executives and managers want you to come back to the office, but they’re just fine phoning it in from the couch, thank you very much. As calls for returning to the office intensify, new research suggests that the C-suite might not be practicing what they’re...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Latest News
Parag Agrawal, one of a large crop of Indian-origin CEOs at major Western companies, appeared to write a farewell note as news broke of Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter on April 25. Agrawal replaced Twitter founder Jack Dorsey as CEO less than six months...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, Career Advice, Latest News
After trending up in recent years, employee engagement in the U.S. saw its first annual decline in a decade — dropping from 36% engaged employees in 2020 to 34% in 2021. This pattern has continued into early 2022, as 32% of full- and part-time employees working...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, Latest News
Mark Zuckerberg is so wrapped up in building the metaverse that it’s becoming a point of frustration for people who work for him, according to several current and former Facebook employees. It’s “the only thing Mark wants to talk about,”...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 25, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
A year since the U.S. began seeing record turnover, exhausted recruiters are putting everything on the table. The recovering pandemic economy has proven to be a job-seeker’s market, with nearly 48 million people quitting a job last year and 76 million taking a new...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, Latest News
Amazon workers are casting their ballots on Monday as part of another high-stakes union drive at a warehouse on New York’s Staten Island. Roughly 1,500 workers at the LDJ5 warehouse are eligible to vote in the election, which is taking place in a large, white tent...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 21, 2022 | Latest News
The Nordics are always winning the happiness race. Finland took the top spot for the fifth year in a row, followed by Denmark, Switzerland, and Iceland. But why are they so consistently happy? Some say it’s because they are small, homogenous, and wealthy. Several...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 21, 2022 | Latest News
Worker surveillance technologies — which can track keystrokes or mouse movements, watch which programs are open on a computer and record how long workers stay on a website — have a new challenge in the California State Assembly. The Workplace Technology Accountability...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 21, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
Here’s some very bad happiness advice based on very solid happiness research: Feel important. Be happily married. Be Danish. Depending on how happiness is measured, all of these things really are associated with a happier life. But they’re unhelpful because they are...
