Like every other company, Amazon sent all employees who could work from home to work from home in 2020. But what they didn’t do was start paying for internet and electricity costs for their employees, according to a lawsuit filed by an Amazon engineer in California. On the surface,
How do you find a job? Everyone is hiring, but it sometimes feels like no one can find a job. This is not true! Companies hire all the time, and there are some things you can do to make job hunting more manageable and less painful. Keep in
I’m a W-2 employee on salary, and I’m exempt. I have two weeks of PTO. Can my boss do the following? 1) not give me a bare minimum of 2-3 days of paid sick leave 2) not allow me to make up time that I take to go
Wynter, a target customer feedback tool, is looking for people to join its HR panel. Participate in messaging research surveys and get paid for your feedback and comments ($90 to $800/hr). It takes ~1-15 min to be part of one survey. Super low time commitment. See what some of
Like many people, when I need to schedule a meeting, I use an electronic tool that tells people my availability and lets them match theirs. I use Calendly, but there are many others out there. It seems to me like pretty much everyone else does as well. It
Activision doesn’t have a great reputation for company culture, even if its games, such as World of Warcraft, are best sellers. They got sued for “bro culture,” which includes allegations of “cube crawls,” which is like a pub crawl, but from cubical to cubical, harassing female employees as they go. They also just
Elon Musk is a great social media troll and the world’s richest person. He likes to poke and provoke, but he also runs businesses that include a lot of hands-on work. He sent a memo to employees at Tesla. Someone leaked the memo (and I expect that someone
