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Facebook Share Twitter Share In a recent edition of the Republican business section  an article appeared concerning the decision by Verizon to divest it’s Yahoo and AOL holdings, “Verizon to see off media brands Yahoo, AOL,” May 4, page A8. The Board of Directors of Verizon approved a $3 million bonus to the current head of Yahoo to assure that he remain in place for six months. Think of the absurdity of that number which works out be about $3 thousand per hour for a 40 hour week during… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google says it expects about 20% of ifs workforce to still work remotely after its offices reopen this fall, while some 60% will work a hybrid schedule that includes about three days in the office and two days “wherever they work best.” The remaining 20% can change their location to a different Google office. The policy announced Wednesday relaxes the company’s stricter earlier stance. “The future of work is flexibility,” CEO… Source link

Dive Brief: Alphabet, the parent company of Google, “does not provide a safe environment for those who face harassment in the workplace,” a group of more than 1,700 employees said in an April 9 public letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The letter claims the existence of a “long pattern where Alphabet protects the harasser instead of protecting the person harmed by the harassment,” citing instances in which alleged harassers received “exit packages” upon resigning… Source link

Bloomberg WHO Sees Pandemic on Wrong Path; Korean Wave: Virus Update (Bloomberg) — The pandemic is on the wrong trajectory after six straight weeks of increased cases, according to a World Health Organization officer, who said “vaccines will not end the pandemic.”South Korea’s president will hold an urgent meeting on Monday with the country’s top health officials, Yonhap News reported, after authorities warned the country is in the early stage of another wave of infections. Pfizer… Source link

Employee protesters at Google headquarters in 2018. James Martin/CNET More than a thousand… Source link

Google workers who want to return their offices in Kirkland and Seattle can do so starting April 20, the company has announced. But the choice to go is voluntary until September, when a modified return to the office is planned. Until then, employees are free to continue working remotely. Rendering shows what Google’s Kirkland Urban campus will look like upon completion. Rendering courtesy of Google. Some buildings at Google’s Kirkland Urban and South Lake Union campuses will be among the… Source link

Google’s Atlanta expansion is part of a $7 billion nationwide expansion by the company this year, which includes hiring 10,000 new full-time workers. A company spokeswoman declined to provide a breakout of how many new jobs Google will create in Atlanta this year. Atlanta has rival suitors on the East Coast for future Google projects. Google said last week that it will boost the size of its investments and hire more workers at existing offices in Boston, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

“I believe a lasting economic recovery will come from local communities, and the people and small businesses that give them life,” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, said in a news release. “Google wants to be a part of that recovery. That’s why we plan to invest over $7 billion in offices and data centers across the U.S. and create at least 10,000 new full-time Google jobs in the U.S. this year.” Source link

Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) is the backbone of much of the internet, counting millions of websites as its customers, ranging from Airbnb (ABNB) and Ancestry.com to McDonald’s (MCD) and Volkswagen.  The world’s largest cloud provider, it has ensured that video chatting apps like Zoom (ZM), streaming services like Netflix (NFLX), and virtual learning platforms have operated throughout a pandemic that has kept everybody at a physical distance. And according to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels,… Source link

Benjamin Cruz, a former instructional designer in Google’s Cloud division, was caught off guard when a colleague told them that their skin was much darker than she expected. Cruz, who is Mexican American and prefers to be identified by the pronouns they/them, reported the incident to human resources in 2019 where personnel told them they should “assume good intent,” Cruz recalled in an interview. Unsatisfied, Cruz asked human resources to look deeper into the incident,… Source link