Collaborate Disseminate
A new attendance policy has made the life of train conductors and engineers a nightmare, and there’s nothing they can do about it. Continue reading America’s Freight Train Drivers Are Exhausted and Overworked
In a letter to the CEO, call centers employees are demanding sick leave if they test positive for COVID. Something they don’t currently have. Continue reading Medicare and ACA Call Center Workers Demand Basic COVID Protections
More money for the now very buzzy business of reshaping how people work: Worksome is announcing it recently closed a $13 million Series A funding round for its “freelance talent platform” — after racking up 10x growth in revenue since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a remote working boom. The 2017 founded […] Continue reading Worksome pulls $13M into its high skill freelancer talent platform
Amid cut-throat competition in the education system and workforce, phenomena like ‘996 culture’ and ‘involution’ have come to dominate the public consciousness. Continue reading Overworking and Humiliation Are Rampant in China’s Toxic Workplaces
As COVID-19 infections surge in parts of the U.S., many workplaces remain empty or are operating with skeleton crews. Most agree that the decision to return to the office should involve a combination of business, government and medical officials and scientists who have a deep understanding of COVID-19 and infectious disease in general. The exact […] Continue reading Amid pandemic, returning to offices remains an open question for tech leaders
Up until 2013, Adobe sold its software in cardboard boxes that were distributed mostly by third party vendors. Continue reading CIO Cynthia Stoddard explains Adobe’s journey from boxes to the cloud
Virtual events are the new norm for product rollouts in 2020, with Slack taking to the internet earlier today to talk about a new part of its service called Slack Connect. On the heels of Apple’s lengthy and pretty good virtual WWDC that took place earlier this week, Slack’s event, part experiment and part press conference, […] Continue reading Slack announces Connect, an improved way for companies to talk to one another
It’s time to shift focus from delivering software to delighting customers. Welcome to a new era of modern software delivery. Continue reading 4 enterprise developer trends that will shape 2021
Email is one of those things that no one likes but that we’re all forced to use. Superhuman, founded by Rahul Vohra, aims to help everyone get to inbox zero. Launched in 2017, Superhuman charges $30 per month and is still in invite-only mode with more than 275,000 people on the waitlist. That’s by design, […] Continue reading Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra says recession is the ‘perfect time’ to be aggressive for well-capitalized startups
“I never imagined that we would have had to put our pandemic plan into action. But because we had a tested strategy already in place, we didn’t miss a beat when COVID-19 struck.” Continue reading ‘One day we were in the office and the next we were working from home’