Personnel
Google opens new ‘Bay View’ campus that was designed for worker flexibility — here’s what it looks like
Google executives Michelle Kaufmann and Asim Tahir said the company wanted to design high ceilings, plants and natural light to give the illusion of working outdoors. Jennifer Elias Google this week is opening its newest campus in Mountain View, California and executives say they aim to make it a place where employees in the company’s […]
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White House hits back at Amazon’s Bezos after Biden inflation spat
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 2, 2021. Paul Ellis | Reuters The White House on Monday hit back at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos after he took a swipe at President Joe Biden in a series of tweets over the weekend for his comments […]
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Education is important, ‘but the money does not seem to add up,’ says UNESCO
The amount spent on financing education doesn’t match the view that education is important, said Priyadarshani Joshi, a research officer on UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report team. Nobody would argue that education isn’t important, “but the money does not seem to add up,” Joshi told CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia last Friday as she spoke about […]
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The job interview question that helped this 25-year-old negotiate her $115,000 salary
Welcome to Paycheck to Paycheck, where workers across the U.S. share how much they earn, how they got to their salary and their best negotiating tips. Ready to join the salary transparency conversation? Apply to be a part of the series here. In this installment, a 25-year-old shares how she makes $115,000 working as a senior data […]
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Op-ed: That college degree is no longer the only path to achieving the American Dream
Foto Sipsak | Getty Images For decades, a college education was the “golden ticket” to the American Dream, translating into higher lifetime earnings and better job security. To that point, the median college graduate makes a total of $2.8 million throughout their career, compared to $1.6 million (a 70% difference) earned by their high school […]
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Tech is hitting the brakes on hiring, but that doesn’t mean a broader slowdown is coming
San Francisco Compassandcamera | Getty Images U.S. employers added more jobs than expected in April amid a tight labor market, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. But the tech sector, which boomed during the pandemic, is showing signs of contraction. Facebook parent company Meta is pausing hiring and scaling down some recruitment plans, Insider […]
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Women are doing more thankless tasks at work — here’s how to help fix the problem
Morsa Images | Stone | Getty Images Lise Vesterlund felt she was “spread too thin” at work, but it was only when the economist started discussing it with friends that she realized the source of the problem — “non-promotable tasks.” Vesterlund, the Andrew W. Mellon professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, coined the […]
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Employees everywhere are organizing. Here’s why it’s happening now
Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, left, speaks next to Christian Smalls, founder of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), during an ALU rally in the Staten Island borough of New York, U.S., on Sunday, April 24, 2022. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images After years of declining influence, unions are having a […]
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Starbucks criticizes Biden’s visit with union leaders, requests White House meeting
US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on economic growth, jobs, and deficit reduction in the Roosevelt Room on Wednesday May 4, 2022. Demetrius Freeman | The Washington Post | Getty Images Starbucks is asking the White House for a meeting after President Joe Biden met with an organizer who is helping its coffee shops unionize. […]
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Here’s where the jobs are — in one chart
Strong hiring in the manufacturing, transportation and warehousing and health-care sectors during April helped the U.S. economy notch its 12th straight month of job gains of 400,000 or more. The U.S. economy added 428,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, the same gain as in March that followed a jump of 714,000 in […]
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