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What we’ve learned about working from home 7 months into the pandemic

When large parts of the world were shutting down in March, we really didn’t know how we would move massive numbers of employees used to working in the office to work from home.In early March, I

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In The Spotlight: Nanaia Mahuta, Maori woman taking global stage

Less than a month ago, when New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardernjust won a landslide election victory, nobodyhad thought Nanaia Mahuta, a longtime Maori parliamentarian, was going to be her

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Slintel grabs $4.2M seed to grow sales intelligence platform

As the pandemic rages on, companies are looking for an edge when it comes to sales. Having the right data about the customers most likely to convert can be a huge boost right now. Slintel, an early st

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Bentley is making the shift to an all-electric lineup

Bentley Motors, the ultra luxury automaker under VW Group, will only produce plug-in hybrid and all-electric cars starting in 2026 with an aim to drop all combustion engines in the next decade.The com

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Implementing a data-driven approach to guarantee fair, equitable and transparent employee pay

Your pay is important. It’s usually something most people don’t understand — why are we paid what we’re paid? Ultimately, this lack of clarity can lead to confusion and negative feelings that af

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Juggle secures $2.1M to expand its ‘flexible work’ SaaS marketplace for senior execs

As we’ve seen, some startups are pivoting to re-model themselves for the radically different world of the COVID-19 pandemic. But others literally turned out to have a business model which, although th

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Global Business Daily: Trader nerves, BMW buoyed by China, Ant update

"The polls are proving wrong again."That's currency analyst Giles Coghlan, at HYCM, a trading services company based in London, who remarked on the volatile stock markets across Europe and the U.S. t

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UK Ministry of Defence to Regain Management Over Production of Atomic Weapons

The UK Ministry of Defence will now retrieve control over its the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) site which produces, designs and supports British nuclear weapons,

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BMW reports strong Q3 growth backed by China's recovery

German luxury carmaker BMW reported on Wednesday a better-than-expected profit growth for the third quarter, thanks to the rebounding demands, especially China's strong recovery from the COVID-19

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Walmart reportedly ends contract with inventory robotics startup Bossa Nova

Robotics and automation startups have seen a strong uptick in interest over the course of the pandemic. And it’s easy to see which companies have a newfound interest in automating their workforce amid

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Reliance Jio Platforms tops 400M subscribers, explores expanding services outside of India

Reliance Jio Platforms, the telecom venture run by India’s richest man (Mukesh Ambani), had 405.6 million subscribers in the quarter that ended in September, becoming the first operator outside

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Coronavirus, consolidation taking toll on energy jobs

/CFP Oil and gas companies worldwide are taking an axe to their employment rolls, shedding workers to survive what is expected to be a prolonged stretch of weak demand.Exxon Mobil Corp said it

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Boeing deepens job cuts as twin crises extend losses

Boeing Co unveiled a fourth straight quarterly loss and deeper job cuts on Wednesday as the coronavirus pandemic and the lengthy grounding of its 737 MAX continued to hammer revenue. The U.S. planema

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Mexican president pledges to ban outsourcing of jobs

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed Tuesday a blanket ban on sub-contracting or outsourcing of jobs by private companies, saying the practice has bee

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Robust.AI raises a $15M Series A to improve problem solving for collaborative robots

Robust.AI today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A, led by Jazz Venture Partners. Existing partners Playground Global, Liquid2, Fontinalis, Jaan Tallinn and Mark Leslie also particip

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COVID-19-positive doctors asked to keep working in Belgium

Health workers in some hospitals in Liege, Belgium's third largest city and a coronavirus hotspot, have been asked to continue working even if they test positive for the virus as long as they are

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Reddit will allow employees to work from anywhere, going forward

Spurred on by the seemingly endless COVID-19 pandemic — and no doubt inspired by similar moves from companies like Twitter — Reddit today announced plans to offer its staff the opportunity to work re