Slashdot Items Tagged "employment"

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Friday February 02, 2024 @05:29PM Japan To Introduce Six-Month Residency Visa For 'Digital Nomads'
Monday January 15, 2024 @06:15PM AI To Impact 60% of Advanced Economy Jobs, Says IMF Chief
Monday January 08, 2024 @04:39PM 'Only 700 New IT Jobs' Were Created In US Last Year
Tuesday May 30, 2023 @07:14PM Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted For H-1B Visa Fraud
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:50AM Employment Checks and Screening
Friday December 09, 2022 @08:23AM Settling Employment Disputes in Los Angeles through Mediation
Saturday September 24, 2022 @03:11PM LinkedIn Ran Social Experiments On 20 Million Users Over Five Years
Thursday September 01, 2022 @07:13PM The T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Hasn't Created Jobs -- It's Cut Thousands
Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:35PM A Record 4.5 Million Americans Quit Their Jobs In November
Friday November 05, 2021 @02:20AM Red Hat Forced To Hire Cheaper, Less Senior Engineers Amid Budget Freeze
Tuesday September 21, 2021 @04:46PM Amazon Relaxes Drug Testing Policies, Will Lobby To Legalize Marijuana
Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:05PM Nokia To Cut Up To 10,000 Jobs Over Next Two Years
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:59PM Worker Fired For Declining a Face Scan Awarded $23,200
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:18PM JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge
Monday July 06, 2020 @04:31PM Fujitsu Announces Permanent Work-From-Home Plan
Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:58PM Federal Workforce Too Reliant On College Degrees, Says Trump Administration
Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:21PM Oregon Supreme Court Approves Measure To Limit Self-Checkout Lanes
Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:00PM Apple Lawsuit Tests If An Employee Can Plan Rival Startup While On Payroll
Thursday November 14, 2019 @07:17PM Uber Hit With $650 Million Employment Tax Bill In New Jersey
Friday November 08, 2019 @09:49PM Share of Cryptocurrency Jobs Grew 1,457% In 4 Years
Thursday September 05, 2019 @05:04PM The Next Hot Job: Pretending To Be a Robot
Friday August 30, 2019 @10:03PM Google Contractors In Pittsburgh Are Unionizing With a Steel Workers Union
Friday August 23, 2019 @06:45PM Google Agrees To Meet With YouTubers Union Right Before Deadline
Monday July 08, 2019 @04:51PM Amazon Staff Will Strike During Prime Day Over Working Conditions
Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:25PM Robots To Take 20 Million Jobs, Worsening Inequality, Study Finds
Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:17PM One Day of Work a Week Is Most 'Effective' Dose For Mental Health, Study Says
Friday June 07, 2019 @10:08PM Better Broadband Lowers Unemployment Rates, Study Says
Tuesday May 07, 2019 @06:08PM Successful IT Startup Actively Hires People On the Autism Spectrum
Thursday April 25, 2019 @05:38PM People Who Claim To Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours
Friday April 12, 2019 @05:23PM Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing'
Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:18PM Facebook Ad Platform Could Be Inherently Discriminatory, Researchers Say
Saturday January 12, 2019 @12:44PM Federal Shutdown May Send Millennial Workers To Exits
Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:42PM AT&T Preps For New Layoffs Despite Billions In Tax Breaks and Regulatory Favors
Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:19PM Software Developer Tops List of U.S. News & World Report's Annual Best Jobs Rankings
Friday December 21, 2018 @07:36PM More Companies Are Trying a Four-Day Work Week
Wednesday September 19, 2018 @05:31PM Evernote Slashes 15 Percent of Its Workforce
Tuesday September 18, 2018 @05:10PM Wharton Professor Says America Should Shorten the Work Day By 2 Hours
Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:38PM Boeing Is Calling Back Its Retirees To Try To Fix Delays At Its 737 Jetliner Plant
Monday September 10, 2018 @10:06PM Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major
Friday July 20, 2018 @05:05PM Uber Drivers 'Employees' For Unemployment Purposes, New York Labor Board Says
Friday July 20, 2018 @12:08AM New Zealand Firm's Four-Day Week an 'Unmitigated Success'
Wednesday July 18, 2018 @08:06PM eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' In the Bay Area
Monday July 02, 2018 @06:06PM Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation
Sunday June 17, 2018 @01:55AM Studies Find Evidence That Meditation Is Demotivating
Wednesday May 16, 2018 @05:32PM Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax
Friday May 04, 2018 @09:40PM Canada Facing 'Brain Drain' As Young Tech Talent Leaves For Silicon Valley
Friday May 04, 2018 @07:23PM The Rise of the Pointless Job
Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:18PM Theranos Lays Off Almost All of Its Remaining Workers
Tuesday April 03, 2018 @06:39PM Apple Hires Google's AI Chief
Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:10PM Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook
Friday March 23, 2018 @06:44PM New York Councilman Proposes Bill That Would Grant NYC Workers 'Right To Disconnect'
Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:52PM South Korea To Shut Off Computers Past 19:00 Hours To Stop People Working Late
Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:55PM Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs
Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:53PM IBM Sues Microsoft's New Chief Diversity Officer To Protect Diversity Trade Secrets
Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:50PM Microsoft Launches LinkedIn-Powered Resume Assistant For Office 365 Subscribers
Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:04PM Valve Bans Developer After Employees Leave Fake User Reviews
Wednesday February 07, 2018 @07:19PM Foxconn Unit To Cut Over 10,000 Jobs As Robotics Take Over
Friday February 02, 2018 @10:45PM Uber Study Says Self-Driving Trucks Will Result In More Truck Drivers, Not Less
Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:27PM Amazon Patents Wristbands Designed To Track and Steer Employees' Movements
Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:15PM Xerox Cedes Control To Fujifilm, Ending Its Independence
Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:59PM Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap
Monday January 29, 2018 @05:30PM Inside Amazon's Mini Rainforest Work Space Spheres
Friday January 19, 2018 @06:57PM Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says He Does Not Regret Firing James Damore
Tuesday January 09, 2018 @08:02PM Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots
Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:30PM The Most Productive Days and Times In 2017
Friday December 29, 2017 @04:09PM AT&T Sheds Thousands of Employees After Touting GOP Tax Plan, Giving Out Bonuses
Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:30PM Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook To Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:21PM Google To Open AI Center In China Despite Search Ban
Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:01PM The Silicon Valley Paradox: One In Four People Are At Risk of Hunger
Thursday December 07, 2017 @09:31PM GE Cuts 12,000 Jobs In Response To Falling Demand For Fossil Fuel Energy
Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:15PM Australian Man Uses Snack Bags As Faraday Cage To Block Tracking By Employer
Friday October 27, 2017 @05:09PM Wall Street's Research Jobs Are the Most Likely To Be Upended By AI
Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:40PM Tesla Hit With Labor Complaint On Behalf of Fired Factory Workers
Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:44AM Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent
Friday October 20, 2017 @08:46PM Tech Companies To Lobby For Immigrant 'Dreamers' To Remain In US
Thursday October 19, 2017 @04:28PM Almost Half of Tech Workers Worry About Losing Their Jobs Because of Ageism, Says Survey
Wednesday October 18, 2017 @05:16PM Bankers Publicly Embracing Robots Are Privately Fearing Job Cuts
Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:11PM Tesla Faces Lawsuit For Racial Harassment In Its Factories
Thursday September 28, 2017 @07:48PM IBM Now Has More Employees In India Than In the US
Monday September 18, 2017 @04:16PM Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold?
Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:12PM Wisconsin State Legislature Signs Off On $3 Billion Foxconn Incentive Package
Monday September 11, 2017 @05:46PM The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers In Dead-End Jobs
Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:05PM Only 13 Percent of Americans Are Scared Robots Will Take Their Jobs, Gallup Poll Shows
Friday September 01, 2017 @04:34PM Tesla Faces Labor Board Complaint Alleging Interference With Unionization
Tuesday August 22, 2017 @04:34PM Autonomous Forklift May Eat Up Warehouse Jobs
Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:55PM Wisconsin Won't Break Even On Foxconn Plant Deal For Over Two Decades
Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:08AM Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo On Gender Differences
Monday August 07, 2017 @03:33PM Google Grapples With Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts
Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:43PM Tesla Factory Workers Pushing For a Union Send Letter of Requests To Company's Board Members
Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:02PM New Data On H-1B Visas Prove That IT Outsourcers Hire a Lot But Pay Very Little
Tuesday August 01, 2017 @03:35PM New Data On H-1B Visas Prove That IT Outsourcers Hire a Lot But Pay Very Little
Monday July 31, 2017 @04:09PM The US Is Becoming a Hot Spot For Outsourcing
Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:18PM German Court Rules Bosses Can't Use Keyboard-Tracking Software To Spy On Workers
Monday July 17, 2017 @06:22PM Long Working Days Can Cause Heart Problems, Study Says
Monday July 10, 2017 @08:28PM Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich
Thursday July 06, 2017 @06:22PM SoundCloud Lays Off Nearly Half Its Staff, Closes Two Offices
Wednesday July 05, 2017 @04:40PM Chicago To Make Future Plans a Graduation Requirement
Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:28PM Samsung Plans To Open $380 Million Home Appliance Plant In US, Creating Almost 1,000 Jobs
Tuesday June 27, 2017 @08:42PM Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's In-House Vending Machines
Monday June 26, 2017 @10:00PM Amazon Robots Poised To Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses
Monday June 26, 2017 @03:59PM Judge Sentences Man To One Year In Prison For Hacking Smart Water Readers In Five US Cities
Friday June 23, 2017 @03:49PM IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees To Work In Bed Bug Infested Office
Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:05PM Google Launches Its AI-Powered Jobs Search Engine
Friday June 16, 2017 @06:16PM Former CenturyLink Employee Accuses Company of Running a Wells Fargo-Like Scheme
Friday June 09, 2017 @03:54PM Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI?
Thursday June 08, 2017 @08:09PM Uber's Self-Driving Unit Gets New Head of Hardware After Levandowski Firing
Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:13PM Verizon Expected To Cut Up To 1,000 Yahoo, AOL Jobs After Acquisition
Friday June 02, 2017 @04:58PM 'Our Streets Are Made For People': San Francisco Mulls Ban On Delivery Robots
Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:17PM Tesla Fires Female Engineer Who Alleged Sexual Harassment
Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:04PM A New Report Finds No Evidence That People Will Work Less Under a Universal Basic Income
Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:43PM Uber Fires Executive Accused of Stealing Google's Self-Driving Car Secrets
Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:17PM US Senator Introduces the First Bill To Give Gig Workers Benefits
Thursday May 25, 2017 @05:00PM Chinese Company Offers Free Training For US Coal Miners To Become Wind Farmers
Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:29PM Renewable Energy Powers Jobs For Almost 10 Million People
Monday May 22, 2017 @11:03PM LeEco Said To Lay Off Over 80 Percent of US Workforce
Friday May 19, 2017 @05:23PM Robots Could Wipe Out Another 6 Million Retail Jobs
Friday May 19, 2017 @05:10PM About 37,000 AT&T Workers Go On Three-Day Strike
Friday May 19, 2017 @04:03PM Uber Threatens To Fire Engineer Accused of Stealing Trade Secrets From Waymo
Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:11PM Google To Launch a Jobs Search Engine In the US
Monday May 15, 2017 @04:43PM Microsoft Job Posting Hints At VR MMO
Monday May 15, 2017 @03:41PM A Lowe's Hardware Store Is Trialling Exoskeletons To Give Workers a Helping Hand
Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:35PM IT Worker Who Trained H-1B-Visa-Holding Replacement Aims For Congress
Friday May 05, 2017 @07:39PM The Parts of America Most Susceptible To Automation
Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:03PM Apple Pledges $1 Billion Toward Creating Manufacturing Jobs In US
Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:19PM IT Contractors In Australia Are Not Being Paid Due To Dispute With Payroll Service
Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:41PM Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds
Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:58PM San Francisco Politician Jane Kim Is Exploring a Tax On Robots
Friday April 28, 2017 @05:41PM Washington State Orchard Owners Look To Robots As Labor Shortage Worsens
Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:00PM University of California IT Workers Replaced By Offshore Outsourcing Firm To File Discrimination Lawsuit
Friday April 21, 2017 @04:59PM Apple Hires Top Google Satellite Executives For New Hardware Team
Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:28PM Plastc Swiped $9 Million From Backers, Now It Plans To File For Bankruptcy and Shut Down
Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:32PM Boeing To Lay Off Hundreds of Engineers Amid Sales Slowdown
Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:41AM Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans
Monday April 17, 2017 @06:19PM Chinese Warehouse Cut Labor Costs In Half With a Fleet of Tiny Robots
Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:32PM More Americans Now Work Full-Time From Home Than Walk and Bike To Office Jobs
Monday April 10, 2017 @07:31PM McDonald's Is Now Accepting Snapchats As Job Applications
Friday April 07, 2017 @05:28PM Walt Mossberg Is Retiring
Friday April 07, 2017 @05:14PM RightHand Robotics Automates a New Type of Warehouse Work: Recognizing, Picking Up Items From Boxes
Wednesday April 05, 2017 @11:55PM Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees
Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:32PM GM Hooking 30,000 Robots To Internet To Keep Factories Humming
Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:03PM Former Snapchat Employee Presses To Unseal Allegedly Doctored Usage Statistics
Monday April 03, 2017 @09:42PM Companies Start Implanting Microchips Into Workers' Bodies
Monday April 03, 2017 @06:20PM Verizon Is Rebranding Yahoo, AOL As 'Oath'
Monday April 03, 2017 @05:16PM Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With a Terrible Tech Manager?
Monday April 03, 2017 @04:15PM Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off
Saturday April 01, 2017 @12:09AM Rogue System Administrator Faces 10 Years In Prison For Shutting Down Servers, Deleting Core Files On the Day He Was Fired
Monday March 27, 2017 @09:42PM GameStop To Close At Least 150 Stores Due To Poor Q4 Sales
Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:15PM 17,000 AT&T Workers Go On Strike In California and Nevada
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:44PM Uber Is Using In-App Podcasts To Dissuade Seattle Drivers From Unionizing
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:01AM Work-Life Balance: Cryptographer Fired By BAE Systems For Taking Care of Dying Wife
Monday March 13, 2017 @09:09PM A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death
Monday March 13, 2017 @04:46PM Online Job Sites May Block Older Workers
Monday March 13, 2017 @04:32PM Lloyds To 'Offshore' 2,000 Jobs In IBM Data Center Outsourcing Deal
Friday March 10, 2017 @05:23PM New Bill Would Allow Employers To Demand Genetic Testing From Workers
Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:04PM Why Your Boss Will Crush Your Innovative Ideas
Thursday February 23, 2017 @02:40AM Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job
Friday February 17, 2017 @05:08PM Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes
Friday February 17, 2017 @04:38PM EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal
Monday February 13, 2017 @06:10PM H-1Bs Reduced Computer Programmer Employment By Up To 11%, Study Finds
Thursday February 09, 2017 @10:34PM Tesla Employee Calls For Unionization, Musk Says That's 'Morally Outrageous'
Thursday February 09, 2017 @08:08PM eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya
Tuesday February 07, 2017 @06:05PM Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers
Tuesday February 07, 2017 @04:56PM There Are Now Twice As Many Solar Jobs As Coal Jobs In the US
Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:11PM Tesla Sues Former Autopilot Executive For Allegedly Stealing Secrets, Poaching Coworkers
Monday January 23, 2017 @04:05PM Foxconn Considers $7 Billion Screen Factory In US, Which Could Create Up To 50,000 Jobs
Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:13AM Microsoft To Lay Off 700 Employees Next Week, Report Says
Friday January 20, 2017 @05:44PM Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal As SVP of Engineering
Friday January 20, 2017 @03:02AM Facebook Has a Team That Handles Mark Zuckerberg's Page
Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:14PM Tesla Is Investing $350 Million In Its Gigafactory, Hiring Hundreds of Workers
Friday January 13, 2017 @06:50PM Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life
Friday January 13, 2017 @05:28PM Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000
Wednesday January 11, 2017 @04:44PM Microsoft Anti-Porn Workers Sue Over PTSD
Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:35PM Sonos CEO John MacFarlene Steps Down From the Company He Helped Found
Friday January 06, 2017 @06:17PM Theranos Is Laying Off 155 People, About 41 Percent Of Its Workforce
Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:43PM Department of Labor Sues Google Over Compensation Data
Wednesday January 04, 2017 @07:20PM Medium Cuts Staff By One-Third, Shuts Down New York and DC Offices
Wednesday December 21, 2016 @01:26AM White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots
Tuesday December 13, 2016 @10:14PM IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump
Tuesday December 13, 2016 @08:06PM Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down, Will Now Lead PC-Focused VR Team Within Facebook
Monday December 12, 2016 @05:29PM Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans
Thursday December 08, 2016 @05:53PM Yik Yak Lays Off 60 Percent of Employees As Growth Collapses
Tuesday November 22, 2016 @07:39PM Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China
Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:46PM Surveillance Firm 'Geofeedia' Cuts Half of Staff After Losing Access To Twitter, Facebook
Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:17PM AOL To Cut 500 Workers To Narrow Focus On Mobile, Video
Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:33PM Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook
Monday November 07, 2016 @07:19PM Facebook Threatens LinkedIn With Job Opening Features
Monday November 07, 2016 @06:35PM Facebook Users Sue Over Alleged Racial Discrimination In Housing, Job Ads
Monday October 31, 2016 @07:21PM Uber Drivers Are Company Employees Not Self-Employed Contractors, Rules British Court
Tuesday October 25, 2016 @09:21PM Google Fiber Pauses Operations, CEO Leaves, and About 9 Percent of Staff Is Being Let Go
Monday October 24, 2016 @09:34PM Twitter Plans To Cut About 300 Jobs As Soon As This Week: Bloomberg
Friday October 21, 2016 @06:34PM Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech
Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:40PM HP Plans To Cut Up To 4,000 Jobs Over Next 3 Years Amid PC Slump
Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:02PM Baby Boomers Don't Have a Stronger Work Ethic Than Later Generations, Says Study
Monday October 10, 2016 @04:53PM Facebook Launches 'Workplace' So You Can Use Facebook At Work For Work
Wednesday October 05, 2016 @11:21PM Theranos To Shut Down Its Blood-Testing Facilities, Shrink Workforce By 40%
Monday September 26, 2016 @06:45PM US Department of Labor Is Suing Peter Thiel's Startup 'Palantir' For Discriminating Against Asians
Friday September 23, 2016 @10:43PM The Verge's Deputy Editor Chris Ziegler Was Secretly Working For Apple For Two Months
Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:12AM 21st Century Fox Sues Netflix Over Executive Poaching
Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:56AM Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report
Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:21PM Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts