Since at least February, DoorDash drivers have known the company was at times dipping into their tips to cover their base pay. But it wasn’t until Tuesday night that the on-demand meal delivery service said it would stop. What changed? More customers finally got wise to how their tips were being used. And they didn’t […]
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Amazon employees, joined by workers from other tech companies, march past the Amazon Spheres during the Global Climate Strike on Sept. 20, in Seattle. Karen Ducey/Getty Images An energetic crowd of hundreds of Amazon workers gathered around the Spheres, a 90-foot-tall glass building at the center of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, to hold up signs reading
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In America and other aging societies around the world, it has become common for the elderly to be cared for by their graying children or older workers. That’s largely because the younger labor force is shrinking, and few want to do such low-paying, back-aching work. Japan sees an answer in robots. At Minami Tsukuba nursing
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Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan speaks at a 2018 launch event for sea.citi, alongside Amazon public policy manager Eileen Sullivan, and sea.citi CEO Nick Merriam. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Tech workers in progressive cities such as Seattle and San Francisco have a bad rap when it comes to civic engagement. As a Seattle Google engineer
FILE PHOTO: A screen displays the company logo for Uber Technologies Inc. on the day of it’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 10, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo (Reuters) – Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc said it launched an app called Uber Works to connect temporary workers looking
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Randstad’s Tania De Decker on how pharma, biotech and other life sciences companies are enabling growth through the gig economy. The life sciences industry is renowned for its rapid hiring practices. When the US Food and Drug Administration finally approves a new medication, therapy or nanodevice, HR departments at pharma and biotech firms must swiftly
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There are many ways you can reward the hard work of your employees. Compensation, benefits, recognition and appreciation address key areas in the employer/employee reward system. While compensation, benefits and recognition are obvious options, there are a lot of ways to say “Job Well Done!”. You can show your appreciation by rewarding your employees with
Bob Iger, the chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, said that the country’s most influential businesses have a duty to effect social change and fill in the gaps of public policy. “I do think companies, particularly large companies, have an obligation to try to solve some of these problems on behalf of their
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Unlike some of its rival technology giants, Amazon.com Inc. has never claimed a loftier purpose than selling its shoppers what they want, quickly and cheaply. Its mission statement: to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company.” As political storms have overtaken Facebook and Alphabet’s Google in the last few years, Amazon’s pursuit of commerce over utopian visions
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General Motors’ 46,000 employees represented by the United Auto Workers will strike Sunday night, the first major labor action in over a decade against a US carmaker and the largest walkout since 1982. The current GM contract with the UAW, under negotiation all summer long, lapsed with no extension at midnight on Saturday; pro forma
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