When it comes to recruiting good talent, a lot of companies find it challenging to stand out from the crowd. Whether you have one of the greatest job openings with a high paycheck and flexible working hours, if you lack a strong employer brand, you’ll be sending countless emails to uninterested...
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Employers today often use perks to attract new talent in the form of discounts and deals, commuter funds, gym memberships, childcare, free lunches and more. But the pandemic has impacted what sort of in-office or other in-person perks employees can access. That’s led to booming growth — and...
Amazon’s new approach to ‘Human Capital’ is a telling takeaway from its annual regulatory report
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Tech workers at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, pre-pandemic. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead)Customers are still No. 1 at Amazon, but the tech giant now wants it to be known, officially, that employees are also “critical” to its customer-centric mission. That’s one of the insights gleaned from...
Amazon’s new approach to ‘Human Capital’ is a telling takeaway from its annual regulatory report
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Tech workers at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, pre-pandemic. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead)Customers are still No. 1 at Amazon, but the tech giant now wants it to be known, officially, that employees are also “critical” to its customer-centric mission. That’s one of the insights gleaned from...
Amazon’s new approach to ‘Human Capital’ is a telling takeaway from its annual regulatory report
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Tech workers at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, pre-pandemic. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead)Customers are still No. 1 at Amazon, but the tech giant now wants it to be known, officially, that employees are also “critical” to its customer-centric mission. That’s one of the insights gleaned from...
Amazon’s new approach to ‘Human Capital’ is a telling takeaway from its annual regulatory report
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Tech workers at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, pre-pandemic. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead)Customers are still No. 1 at Amazon, but the tech giant now wants it to be known, officially, that employees are also “critical” to its customer-centric mission. That’s one of the insights gleaned from...
Amazon’s new approach to ‘Human Capital’ is a telling takeaway from its annual regulatory report
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Tech workers at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, pre-pandemic. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead)Customers are still No. 1 at Amazon, but the tech giant now wants it to be known, officially, that employees are also “critical” to its customer-centric mission. That’s one of the insights gleaned from...
The idea of "employee training" is adapting to global pandemic working requirements using authoring tools, learning management systems & web conferencing tools.Read the full...
Like tens of millions of other parents nationwide, Jonathan and Sara Sadowski struggle to assist their four children, ages 5 to 11, with their online schooling at home. In addition, their eldest child, who has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair, needs special care.So to help the kids and...
Uber and Lyft lost in court in Thursday, as the First Appellate District court in San Francisco affirmed a preliminary injunction placed against the companies last month. That ruling said there’s “overwhelming likelihood” the two companies are...
Like Uber, Lyft says it may temporarily suspend service in California if it is required to classify drivers as employees rather than independent contractors. Lyft President Josh Zimmerman broke the news during an earnings call with investors...
In a time of social distancing and remote work, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon raised a surprising topic during his latest earnings call with Wall Street analysts: togetherness. “Our firm has always had a team-oriented apprenticeship culture, and we benefit from being and working together,” he...
The world’s 500 biggest companies employ some 69.9 million people and together earned a total of $2.06 trillion last year. That translates to roughly $29,500 for each worker. But the 18 companies in the graphic above, concentrated in a handful of industries, proved vastly more efficient...
You can be entitled to other legal protections in the workforce, including: based on the role of the employer, the country in which you operate and the occupation.Read the full...
Amazon tops 1 million employees and seasonal workers for first time as demand and profits surge
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Amazon HQ in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)Amazon crossed a key milestone over the last quarter, growing to more than 1 million employees and seasonal workers around the world for the first time. Amazon’s chief financial officer, Brian Olsavsky, announced the headcount Thursday during...
There is a sense of joy when you walk past your picture hanging next to the wording 'employee of the month'. But how do you go from being an ordinary employee to the month's best?Read the full...
A handful of high-ranking former eBay staff allegedly carried out a bizarre cyberstalking campaign that involved sending a preserved fetal pig, bloody pig Halloween mask, funeral wreath, book on surviving the loss of a spouse and pornography to a...
Hundreds of Microsoft employees are calling on the company to cancel its contracts with the Seattle Police Department (SPD) and make other changes in response to police use of tear gas and other violent tactics during recent peaceful protests,...
Subscribe to How to Reopen, our weekly newsletter on what it takes to reboot business in the midst of a pandemic.As coronavirus lockdowns begin to ease, the biggest fear among white-collar workers in the U.S. about returning to the office is their coworkers’ behavior, according to a new...
Less than two weeks after Uber shared plans to lay off 3,700 employees, the company announced that it will let another 3,000 workers go. In other words, in the course of a month, Uber has made plans to get rid of roughly a quarter of its...
A group of nine senators, including past presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, want to know why Amazon keeps firing COVID-19 whistleblowers. The senators penned a letter to the company asking about...
A crucial success factor for Startups is the skill to manage finances. Almost 80% of startup founders bootstrap their way in. They operate with limited resources, ensuring optimization at every step. Read the full...
As companies and employees around the world adjust to new ways of working, new types of stress are emerging. Feelings of isolation, detachment from colleagues, a lack of routine, trying to keep children busy, and being unable to ‘switch off’ as the lines between our private and work lives begin...
Amazon has grown to more than 935,000 employees worldwide, including 95,000 new hires in just the past few weeks, quickly rendering the number in its first-quarter earnings report out of date as it grows in response to the global pandemic. As of the end of the first quarter, on March 31, Amazon had...
This daunting task may seem inessential, but it’s worth the effort. By Tanisha Lele Writing the right mission statement can be quite a task. One wrongly-placed word, and you could lose a potential buyer or employee. A mission statement is the only chance...
A deep dive into employee stock options. By Sharon Lewis A company is only as good as its people, and ESOPs can be a great way to keep those people happy. ESOPs, or employee stock ownership plans, allow employees of companies the […] The post Does My Startup Need An ESOP? appeared first...
Early this week, workers from Amazon, Whole Foods and Instacart walked off the job to protest what they say is a lack of protections against COVID-19. Now, Amazon is sharing its plans to increase employee temperature checks and provide surgical...
Fed up with the company's response to the coronavirus, Instacart workers announced today that they'll go on strike beginning Monday. They will not return to work until their demands are met, Instacart Shoppers and the Gig Workers Collective wrote...
Amazon has temporarily closed a warehouse in Queens, New York, after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. While two office workers at Amazon's Seattle headquarters have been diagnosed with COVID-19, this is the first confirmed case in a US...