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“Genuinely embarrassed” | Sam Altman apologizes after learning strict OpenAI NDAs threatened to claw back employee equity
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said he is “genuinely embarrassed” after the exit of two high-profile safety...
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‘Tragedy’ | Bank of America employee dies unexpectedly - the second this month
Adnan Deumic, 25, was a credit trader, having joined Bank of America's global markets team in 2022...
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Honoring HR | Happy International HR Day! Make a wish, to shape a better future of work
On May 20 each year, organizations across the globe come together to celebrate the HR profession and...
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IG U-turn | Meta rescinds job offer to human trafficking expert after he condemned Instagram during a 'sextortion' webinar
Paul Raffile, a cyber-intelligence analyst who specializes in human exploitation including sextortion...
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‘Bring our employees along’ | Mastercard says trust & training are key to managing “fear” as AI helps it schedule job interviews 90% faster
The payment technology company's EVP of People Operations and Insights, Anshul Sheopuri, and Chief...
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Fast fashion | Report claims 75-hour weeks 'still the norm' in Shein's supply chain despite promise to fix overwork culture
The report follows Public Eye's first investigation in January 2021, which alleged workers at factories...
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Pichai probe | Google employees grill CEO on cost-cutting, layoffs, & "decline in morale" in all-hands meeting
Google's CEO and CFO faced a barrage of questions from employees during a company meeting last week,...
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As young as 13 | Janitorial company fined $649,000 after hiring child labor to clean slaughterhouses
Fayette Janitorial Service has been fined $649,000 by the Department of Labor (DOL) after hiring child...
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‘Devastated’ | Investment banking employee at Bank of America dies
Bank of America says it will do whatever it can to support the family and its team.
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‘Fake work’ & ‘BS’ jobs | Leading VC investor claims half of Google does "no real work"
“Anyone who works in a 10,000+ person or larger white-collar job company knows that a bunch of the...
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‘Greedy corporations’ | Uber & Lyft accused of dodging $266mn in benefit contributions through employee misclassification
A Massachusetts State Auditor released a report on Tuesday, April 30, accusing companies like Uber and...
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'It shouldn't be easy' | Nvidia boss accepts he's 'hard to work for' but says that's deliberate
In a recent interview with 60 Minutes, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang embraced his reputation as a 'demanding...
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Tesla trouble | EV giant lays off employee who slept in car to be more productive
Tesla, the Texas-based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer helmed by controversial businessman Elon Musk,...
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25% pay raise | Biden hails 'power of collective bargaining' as last-minute UAW & Daimler Truck deal averts strike
United Auto Workers (UAW) and Daimler Truck struck a tentative deal at the eleventh hour on Friday, including...
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“Workplaces are getting worse” | Walmart, Waffle House, & Uber among those blasted for “unsafe and reckless” work practices in 'Dirty Dozen' report
The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) released its 2024 “Dirty Dozen”...
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'Casting aside worker safety' | SpaceX employee injury rate rockets ahead of industry average for the second year running
Records shared by OSHA reveal that at one facility in Brownsville, Texas, the aeronautics company owned...
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Spotifallout | Spotify CEO admits laying off 1,500 employees disrupted workforce "more than we anticipated"
When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age...
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‘Craft excellence’ | Shopify offers employees pay raises for upskilling as alternative to unwanted “corporate ladder” promotions
The program, called '~Mastery,' was introduced by Shopify in February, and is an attempt to to transition...
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'Little to no accountability' | House intelligence committee: CIA failed to properly handle sexual assault claims among its employees
In a series of eight findings, the committee reports that victims allegedly saw “little to no accountability...
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Retention rethink | FTC set to vote on controversial noncompete clause ban with NCAs costing workers $3bn per year
Noncompete agreements are clauses included in contracts between a worker and employer that prohibit the...
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