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Mayday! A distressing outlook for the future of labor

A worker at a port in Ningbo, southeast China's Zhejiang Province, April 30, 2021. /Xinhua Editor's note:Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based communication expert, lecturer at the United States I

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COVID-19 turned many workers into stay-at-home parents. What's next?

02:37 During the pandemic, many parents have found themselves leaving the workplace for a new full time job at home – taking care of the kids. But will months of full-time parenting har

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American families need more than alleviation of pandemic effects

Volunteers waits to assist people with their vaccination appointments at a clinic in Los Angeles, California, April 10, 2021. /Getty Editor's note:Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based communicati

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A new job title, ‘stay-at-home parent’ amid COVID

02:33 During the COVID-19 pandemic, many parents in the U.S. have found themselves leaving the workplace to do a full-time jobathome– taking care of the kids.Will that harm their chance

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Robo-advisor StashAway gets $25M Series D led by Sequoia Capital India

Investment app StashAway has raised a $25 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from returning investors Eight Roads Ventures and Square Peg. After regulatory approvals for

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5 emerging use cases for productivity infrastructure in 2021

When the world flipped upside down last year, nearly every company in every industry was forced to implement a remote workforce in just a matter of days — they had to scramble to ensure employees had

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Live long and prosper: Challenges and lessons in aging Asia

Asia has been a global economic powerhouse in recent decades. But the region is well on track to a gray future, as Asian countries are growing older faster and on a larger scale than any other par

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Iran, world powers resume nuclear talks amid Natanz attack tensions

World leaders are in attendance at talks in Vienna, which aims to bring the U.S. back into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal. /Reuters Iran and world powers have resumed talk

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RWDSU head says rerun election ‘very likely’ following Amazon union vote loss

However the outcome of today’s vote count turned out, there was one thing we knew for certain: it wasn’t going to mark the end of the battle between Amazon and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Sto

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Amazon defeats warehouse union push, RWDSU challenges results

Efforts to unionize Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse were defeated by a wide margin in the second day of vote counting. More than half of the 3,215 votes cast broke in in factor of the retailer. T

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Industry experts bullish on $500M KKR investment in Box, but stock market remains skeptical

When Box announced it was getting a $500 million investment from private equity firm KKR this morning, it was hard not to see it as a positive move for the company. It has been operating under the sha

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Norwegian corporate training startup Attensi raises $26M from NYC’s Lugard Road, DX Ventures

Corporate training startup Attensi — which originally emerged out of Oslo, Norway — has raised $26 million from New York-based Lugard Road Capital, DX Ventures (a VC fund backed by Delivery Hero), and

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EHR startup Canvas Medical raises $17M and partners with insurance heavyweight Anthem

Canvas Medical, an electronic health records (EHR) startup, today announced their $17 million Series A and a new partnership with Anthem, one of the biggest health insurance companies in the country.T

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Messaging platform Gupshup raises $100 million at $1.4 billion valuation

A startup that began its journey in India 15 years ago, helping businesses reach and engage with users through texts said on Thursday it has attained the unicorn status and is also profitable.San Fran

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Heading to a beer garden next week? Changes have been made to the NHS Test and Trace app

The updates mean every person in a group must check in when in a pub or outdoor venue rather than just one member.

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PingPong is a video chat app for product teams working across multiple time zones

From the earliest days of the pandemic, it was no secret that video chat was about to become a very hot space.Over the past several months investors have bankrolled a handful of video startups with sp

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Report finds going remote made workplaces more hostile for already marginalized groups

The last year wasn’t an easy one for just about anybody, but a new report from Project Include shows that the shift to remote work affected some groups more negatively than others. Unsurprisingl