Nearly 60% of the over 700,000 jobs lost in the first wave of pandemic layoffs were jobs held by women, according to data from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. But women in search of a
On his personal Facebook account, Mark Zuckerberg offered an update on the company’s roadmap for bringing employees back to work in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.In the post, he acknowle
The number of initial jobless claims in the United States totaled 5.2 million last week as the COVID-19 fallout continues to ripple through workforce, following staggering figures of over 6 million i
California will be the first state to give cash to immigrants living in the country illegally who are hurt by the coronavirus, offering $500 apiece to 150,000 adults wh
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation's (LAEDC) latest report showed more than 2.6 million jobs at high or medium risk in the Los Angele
Most of NASA’s facilities around the country have been shut down, and while some teams can work (and drive a Mars rover) from home, others are knuckling down to get some crucial missions out th
You don’t need your PhD in economics to know the economy is in rough shape right now due to the impact of COVID-19, but ServiceNow today pledged that it would not lay off a single employee in 20
Canyon Bridge has told MPs that the majority of the chip designer's staff will remain UK-based, Sky News learns.
The COVID-19 outbreak has not only caused global disruption, it has also changed the cybersecurity threat landscape. We are observing changing patterns of behaviors from threat actors and noticing wav
02:28 "Initially it was thought that COVID-19 was essentially a disease for the elderly. And that was the expectation in the UK," says Wasim Hanif, a consultant physician and a profess
Amazon has already hired over 100,000 new employees in the past four weeks as a result of the uptick in demand it’s seeing due to the global coronavirus pandemic, but it’s looking to add
Turkey introduced a new coronavirus lockdown over the weekend that took many by surprise and led to Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu offering his resignation late Sunda
Some of us have learned how to be uniquely scrappy during this pandemic. I’m talking socks as masks and chickpea water as a vegetarian egg-white replacement type of scrappy.And you will learn in this
The White House in Washington, D.C., April 8, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Joel Wendland-Liu is an associate professor of the Integrative, Religious and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand V
As workers moved from office to home and students moved to being educated online, demand for new PCs surged in Q1, but Canalys found that shipments actually dropped 8% in spite of this, due to COVID-1
Another week in quarantine.As the world adjusts to working from home under mandatory stay-at-home orders, hackers are keeping busy. Microsoft said this week that coronavirus-related attacks are on the
Tesla started Friday to furlough its sales and delivery workforce — with the least experienced employees bearing the brunt of the action — days after a companywide email announced salary cuts and redu