Paul Cormier became Red Hat’s new CEO this week — while the entire company was working from home. He had to make his inaugural address to over 12,000 employees around the world using BlueJeans videoconferencing tools, reports a North Carolina newspaper:
In some ways, Red Hat was well prepared to work through the disruptions of coronavirus. For years, the company has encouraged…
Tag: human resources
Amazon Threatens To Fire Employees Who Speak Out On Climate Change
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: A group of Amazon employees say the company has threatened to fire two workers for speaking out against the company’s environmental policies. In a statement posted to Twitter on Thursday, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said that several employees were contacted by legal and human resources representatives, who said they were in violation…
Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against For Reporting Abuse
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Sexual harassment, gaslighting, broken promises of promotion, gender-based discrimination, and racism. Motherboard has obtained a document written by 45 different Google employees alleging they’ve experienced of all the above. The document lays bare how working at Google — a company whose motto was once “don’t be evil” — has become really hard for…
Dozens of Google Employees Say They Were Retaliated Against For Reporting Harassment
An anonymous reader shares a report: Last November, Google made a promise to do better. More than 20,000 employees around the world had walked out of the company’s offices to protest that Google had paid out over $100 million to multiple executives accused of sexual harassment in the workplace. In response, the tech giant apologized and said it would overhaul its…
Do Personality Tests Give Companies Too Much Power?
One 2016 human resources study found that 48% of American businesses — and 57% of U.K. businesses — used personality questionnaires for hiring decisions, a new article reports. They add that the personality test industry may now be bringing in up to $4 billion a year. But “By relying on these tests, employers can ask questions that would be inappropriate –…
IT Pro Screwed Out of Unused Vacation Pay, Bonus By HPE Thanks To Outdated Law
Slashdot reader Meg Whitman shares a report from The Register: A “highly skilled IT professional” has lost his fight to be paid his unused vacation days as well as a non-trivial bonus, after a judge stuck to a law he admitted was outdated. Matthew White joined Hewlett-Packard in 2013 and left in July 2015, just months before the company split into…
Scammers Try Elaborate Fake Job Interviews On Google Hangouts
Ars Technica documents “a new breed of digital fraudsters” using a complicated scam to prey on white-collar job-seekers. It involves setting up a fake job interview process and the promises of high-paying work: Like most successful cons, this one involved gaining the willing consent of its victim through some combination of greed, fear, or desperation… The recruiter was responding to the…
A Bookstore, Finally, Comes To the Bronx
In no place was Barnes & Noble’s diminished fortune felt as intensely as it was in the Bronx, where gratitude for what it provided far outweighed snobbishness. From a report: Five years ago when Barnes & Noble announced that it was closing the only branch it had opened there, residents and local civic leaders were angry and heartbroken and fought to…
Transitioning from a ‘Teacher-centric’ to a ‘Student-centric’ Classroom through Digital Learning
“(Technology) is not making teaching obsolete. If anything, it is making the craft of teaching more important” … The Economist, 22nd July 2017 It all began in November, 2014 when I attended the edX Global Forum in Boston. All through the dreary eighteen-hour flight from Bangalore (where I live and work) to Boston, I was restless and unsure, perhaps even skeptical,…