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Amazon (AMZN) has begun rolling out a short-form video and photo feed in its app. Though the feature, called Inspire, immediately drew comparisons to TikTok, Oliver Messenger, director of Amazon Shopping, told Yahoo Finance Live that it wasn’t TikTok’s success that encouraged the company to build Inspire – it was customer feedback. “We spend a lot of time listening to customers,” said Messenger. “We have survey sessions, we have usability labs, and there are also ways within the app… Source link

Google offices may have slides, climbing walls, nap pods, and basketball courts, but they aren’t adult playgrounds, at least not wholly. “I think that the assumptions are very surface level,” Joshua Bridie, Google’s director of global interior design, tells AD. Movies like The Internship and video tours of the tech giant’s workspaces have long offered glimpses into the home bases of Googlers across the globe, prompting common adjectives to surface when discussing the infamous… Source link

The most anticipated soccer tournaments, or football as it’s known globally, are here and for the first time ever, is occurring at the same time as key holiday shopping days. The convergence of these two things will amplify a trend we are seeing with consumer behavior, as people will be lured from their workday into more personal activities. While timing seems to be the connection between these two distinct events, a new consumer trend is in fact behind it. In short, the world has seen a… Source link

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By Leika Kihara NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he was working “at the absolute most amount…from morning til night, seven days a week” when asked about his recent acquisition of Twitter and his leadership of automaker Tesla Inc. “I have too much work on my plate that is for sure,” Musk said by videolink to a business conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali. Musk is chief executive of both companies and also runs rocket firm SpaceX, brain-chip… Source link

Comment on this story Comment For the first time since its 2016 launch, Google Assistant is getting parental controls. You might think the chatty virtual assistant, which the company says is used by 700 million people a month, already had some. For years Google has allowed parents to grant children Assistant access by way of its Family Link app, but offered relatively few restrictions. In the next few weeks, when these tools land on a smart speaker, screen or clock near you, you’ll be able to… Source link

A recent Microsoft (MSFT) survey found that employers and workers still disagree over whether remote work boosts or kills productivity. In a new interview with Yahoo Finance, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said companies should consult the data to determine workers’ performance — rather than assume they’re getting more work done in the office. The company’s recent Work Trends Study, which surveyed 20,000 people across 11 countries, found 87% of employees say they’re more productive… Source link

Between countless apps and communication channels, the digital workplace is not always easy to navigate, and it may be costing companies millions.  According to software company Salesforce, 86% of executives and employees point to ineffective collaboration and communication as the main causes behind workplace failures. In fact, poor communication costs big employers with 100,000 employees $62.4 million a year in job errors and productivity loss. But in an era of remote work, where… Source link

Two-and-a-half years into the pandemic, millions of Americans are still suffering from long-term effects of COVID-19, otherwise known as Long COVID. The health impacts are clear, What’s not clear is the impact on the economy and the workplace. “I’m desperate to get back to work, but I still can’t work at a desk or talk for more than 20-30 minutes without needing to rest for hours at a time,” Charlie McCone, a 32-year-old based out of San Francisco, told Yahoo Finance. “I feel like… Source link

For most of the past few years, Google–like every company–has been rethinking how its employees work. During the pandemic, most of them worked from home. Now that it seems to be mostly over, a lot of managers would like those employees to come back to the office.  Balancing that tension are leaders trying to figure out the best way to help employees be productive, or even what that even means. Google, a company known for spending a lot of energy and resources creating interesting and… Source link