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June 26, 2018

Starting July 1, employees working in the hilly city of San Francisco must be paid $15 an hour. San Francisco’s new Consideration of Salary History ordinance will go into effect on July 1, 2018. The Parity in ...

Apple employees get standing desk: Tim Cook says ‘sitting is the new cancer.’

Diana Coker

June 15, 2018

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently disclosed a new detail about Apple work environment: the introduction of standing desk for all Apple employees. "Everyone gets a standing desk," Cook said in an interview with The C...

Walmart offers its US employees tuition benefit

June 10, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured, News, Trends

The world's second-largest employer and largest retailer Walmart has introduced a new tuition benefit for its employees and eligible family members in the US. Introduced in partnership with education benefit p...

CEO of World’s Largest Luggage Maker Resigns After Resume Scandal

June 5, 2018

On Friday, world’s largest luggage maker Samsonite announced its CEO stepped down following allegations that he lied on his resume. A research report issued by U.S.-based activist investment fund called Blue O...

Workaholic Americans are not taking vacation days: Are you one of them?

May 9, 2018

Featured, News, Trends, Workplace Culture

In 1971, American psychologist Wayne Oates wrote “Confessions of a Workaholic: The Facts about Work Addiction,” adding a word to the American lexicon; the Oxford English Dictionary credits him with inventing th...

Starbucks once again sets the precedent as the most progressive company in the world

April 18, 2018

Many believe racial training programs the corporate version of, “But I have a black friend”. While some say unconscious bias training at work would accomplish little other than protecting corporates from potent...

Africa’s Largest Architecture Practice Pledges to Take Action on Gender Diversity

April 16, 2018

Africa's largest architecture practice, Boogertman + Partners has responded to its Move the Needle Initiative by promising to tackle gender pay gap. According to the report, the South African studio realized it...

Facebook’s Head of Security is Leaving Amid Data Scandal

March 21, 2018

As Facebook scandal increasingly become more dooming, the departure of its Chief Security Officer (CSO), Alex Stamos is looking inevitable as a result of internal disputes traceable to how the company is handli...

Foster + Partner Releases Gender Pay Gap Report and the Numbers are Not Surprising

March 8, 2018

In 2017 the UK government made it mandatory for employers with 250 or more employees to publish their gender pay gap report on their respective public-facing websites. This report must be submitted to the gover...

Iceland mandates equal pay law to break down last of the gender barriers in the workplace

January 4, 2018

Iceland has taken a monumental step in its attempt to close the gender pay gap. A new law makes equal pay for equal work a must in the country – regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or nationality. The n...

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