Google Expects to Reopen U.S. Offices Over Next Month

Google said staff may start returning to some of its U.S. offices over the next month, another indication of how companies are preparing for a more normalized environment as Covid-19 vaccinations pick up. The search-engine giant owned by Alphabet Inc. said Wednesday the initial return period will be voluntary as offices begin to reopen but with capacity limits, according to an email from Google’s top people executive Fionna Cicconi. “Conditions vary… Source link

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BlackRock Has Begun Trading Bitcoin Futures

TipRanks Keep on Buying These 3 EV Stocks, Says Analyst Following Conference Investors are always on the lookout for the next big thing, the next industry that will bring the great returns. Predicting what stock sector will blast off is an inexact science, at best; but like politics, stocks run downstream from culture. And right now, culture is all-in for clean energy and electric cars. Observing the electric vehicle (EV) stock sector for Colliers Securities is industry expert Michael Shlisky…. Source link

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Deshaun Watson lawyer releases supportive statements from 18 masseuses

HOUSTON — As the 20th and 21st civil suits against Deshaun Watson became public on Wednesday, the attorney representing the Houston Texans quarterback countered with a lengthy release of on-the-record statements from 18 female masseuses who claim they had only positive business interactions with Watson. In terms of strategy, it’s the most significant public response to date from Watson’s attorney, Rusty Hardin, countering the layered, sexually driven narrative that has been put forth in… Source link

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Google union wins dispute over discussing pay

Google is telling workers they are allowed to discuss pay and working conditions as part of a settlement agreement with the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), Bloomberg reports. The move settles a labor dispute brought by AWU in February. The initial complaint alleged that managers at Adecco, a Google subcontracting firm, banned workers from talking about wages and bonuses. It also said that Adecco retaliated against contractor Shannon Wait after she posted pro-union messages on Facebook. The… Source link

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Google to welcome some employees back to office in April.

Google employees in the United States will likely be allowed to return to the office next month, the company said on Wednesday. Google and other tech companies that shuttered their offices at the start of the pandemic are gradually reopening work spaces as vaccines become widely available. Facebook told employees that its Menlo Park headquarters would open in May, and Uber has allowed a limited number of employees to return to its San Francisco offices. Other tech companies, like Twitter,… Source link

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Are You Ready To Join A Cohort? Google Releases FLoC

FLoC’s Privacy Protections How Is This Different To The Previous Process? Cohort Eligibility Google Launches Privacy Sandbox Website With Mozilla’s Total Cookie Protection and DuckDuckGo’s additional privacy protections, we’ve been waiting to see how Google responds to calls for more privacy while browsing. Some internet users don’t like the idea of their data being collected and used. In contrast, advertisers rely on information from third-parties to serve personalized ads to an… Source link

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Do you obey public-access mandates? Google Scholar is watching

Google Scholar’s co-founder, Anurag Acharya.Credit: Amit Basu Google Scholar, the popular free search engine for scholarly literature, revealed an unexpected feature on 23 March: it is keeping track of whether research papers covered by funders’ public-access mandates are free to read. A scientist’s Google Scholar profile now displays how many of their papers should be free to read because a funder requires it; how many… Source link

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Is It Too Late to Buy General Electric (GE) Stock?

Longleaf Partners Fund, a Memphis-based fund under Southeastern Asset Management, recently released its Q4 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The fund posted a return of 22.75% for the quarter, outperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 12.15% in the same quarter. You should check out Longleaf Partners’ top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of 2021. In the Q4 2020 Investor Letter, the fund highlighted… Source link

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One tax break Democrats should grant the wealthy

With President Biden rolling out his big infrastructure plan on Wednesday, Congress will now debate the tax changes that should go along with it. One of those changes should be a tax cut that would benefit wealthy taxpayers, mostly in blue states. You read that right. Yes, Biden rode to the White House promising to raise taxes on the wealthy, not cut them. Polls show voters strongly support higher taxes on those who earn the most. But first Congress should rectify a mistake Republicans made… Source link

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Google Promises Not to Muzzle Staff on Pay, Settling Labor Case

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Google promised not to silence workers who talk about their pay, part of a settlement resolving one of the first legal complaints filed by a new union representing hundreds of employees and contract workers at the internet giant. “WE WILL NOT tell… Source link

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