World’s Best Workplace Indulges In Gender Pay Gap
Let’s imagine a scenario. There are two individuals who are a part of the same department at work. They were hired together during an open interview and have parallel j...
Massachusetts Wants Employers To Accommodate Use of Medical Marijuana In The Workplace
There are now 29 states with laws that legalize use of medical marijuana. Eight of those states – Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington State, Maine, California, Nevada,...
Can I Get Fired For Leaving A WhatsApp Group?
Whether you’re a low-level worker or a top executive, violate a company rule and you can get fired. Depending on the circumstances, you can indeed get fired or repriman...
European Employers Must Notify Job Applicants Over Social Media Screening
“It’s no secret that employers do a background and social media screening on job applicants,” the HR Director of a UK clothing and footwear retailer told me at a co...
Are You The Smelly Coworker? Let ‘No Sweat’ App Be The Judge.
There is a word in Japanese for the behavior of coworkers who annoy others with their pungent aromas – sumehara, or “smell harassment.” Corporations in Japan have s...
Bill Gates’ Summer Recommendations Working Professionals Should Read
From a school-going kid to an adult, who does not know Bill Gates? Gates is one of the most admired businessman in the world. He’s admired not only for his business...
Asking Your Interviewee’s Salary History will soon be Prohibited in California
If there is something equal to the consequences of asking a woman’s weight is asking someone’s salary history. There are many people out there who do not want to shar...
Uber Begins Housecleaning with Firing of 20 Employees
Uber Technologies Inc has fired 20 employees, including some senior executives, following a probe by a law firm into sexual harassment allegations and other workplace mis...
Walmart is Accused of Punishing Employees for Sick Days
Walmart and labor unions go together like oil and ice. In terms of labor regulations, the nation’s largest private employer is basically the Tiger Woods of retail chai...
Walmart is Transforming Employee Training with Virtual Reality
Walmart has made headlines in this past year for all the wrong reasons. All too often, these headlines revolve around the widespread mistreatment of workers. More than tw...
Apple’s Jony Ive To Develop Future Talent and Launching New iPad Air with A14 Bionic Chipset
According to a recent announcement, Apple’s Chief Design Officer, Sir Jony Ive has been appointed as the new Chancellor of the Royal College of Art (RCA), London. The a...
New York City Uber Drivers to Get their Refunds after Uber Admits Mis-calculations
Uber being drown in a pool of negative controversies is not something that journalists have done out of choice. It is the things that the company does or revelations that...
Automation Technology Will Put 6 To 7.5 Million Jobs In Peril
Technological unemployment is already affecting the prodigious sectors that contribute majorly to the economy. By now, we know that automation can lead to temporary and p...
Ex-employee Sues UploadVR for Rampant Sexual Practices
A San Francisco based virtual reality start-up UploadVR is being sued by a former director of Digital and Social Media who alleges that the start-up is practicing sexual ...
It Has Been A Very Strange Year At Uber
Companies today are going by the ‘bleed now, make money later’ business model like Amazon.com did in the 00’s. What’s shocking is that some of these companies hav...
California Wage Orders Revised – Reflect an Increase in the Minimum Wage
To reflect the increases in the 2017 and 2018 state minimum wage, the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) recently updated many Wage Orders. These updated...
