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JPMorgan plans to end hybrid work option, ask staff to work from office 5 days a week: Report
'The people who work for you not going to the office. That bothers me. I don't allow that,' JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon had said at an event late last year.
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‘I am rich and I have no idea what to do’: Vinay Hiremath after selling startup for $975 million
The Indian-origin co-founder of Loom also described breaking up with his girlfriend as 'extremely painful' but the 'right call'. 'If my ex is reading this. Thank you for everything. I am sorry I couldn’t be what you needed me to be,' he wrote.
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82% workers who use AI at work are unhappy, finds study: 'Much of my education is now worthless'
The study -- conducted on 1,018 scientists working at a large US-based research and development lab -- found that the participants discovered 44 percent more materials, resulting in a 39 percent increase in patent filings and a 17 percent rise in downstream product innovation.
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Lawyer quits job to work in tech with Rs 1.3 crore pay cut after burnout: 'I'm really happy'
'It felt like I had to choose between showing up for my job in the way that was expected of me and showing up for the people I love in the way that I wanted to. I panicked about the tension between the two,' the 32-year-old said.
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Man who saved 70% of his income to retire at 34 shares why he stopped being 'hyper-frugal'
Opening up about experiences he regrets missing, Brandon Ganch said he wished he had not skipped bachelor parties in his twenties to avoid pricey airfare.
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Blinkit CEO took 2.57 minutes to pack an NYE order, apologises for being 'slow': 'Sorry for the delay'
'The average picking time at this store is 1 minute 46 seconds (sorry for the delay and happy new year to whoever's order this was),' Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa said.
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Ex-Amazon manager says Bengaluru employees happily work 60 hours a week, attend 3 am calls
'In my five years there, I witnessed multiple leaders asking why they were on calls at 3 am Bangalore time?' former Amazon senior manager, Adam Broda, said. 'The explanation would (almost) always be the same...'
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Not just Secret Santa, Bengaluru's Cubbon Park said no to these 7 activities
While a few restrictions were put into place in the last few years, in 2023, Cubbon Park introduced a fresh set of prohibitions that irked several citizen associations.
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Ex-Google techie says he got a promotion and Rs 80 lakh bonus 8 months after being hired
'My first two months at Google? Honestly, they were weird,' Jerry Lee, who worked with the tech giant for three years, said.
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Bengaluru woes: Startup founder says he faced bias as he didn't study at IIT or speak Hindi
Dhruv Suyamprakasam moved to Bengaluru twice, in 2010 and in 2016. And both times, he returned to his hometown after spending little over a year in the city.
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This fintech company hasn't hired new staff in 1 year. CEO says AI can now perform all tasks
'We stopped hiring about a year ago, so we were 4,500, and now we're 3,500 [employees],' Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said.
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Woman in love with married colleague paid Rs 1.4 crore to his wife as 'divorce fee'. But then...
Han was married with two daughters when he got into a relationship with his co-worker. He also welcomed a son with his girlfriend in 2022.
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CEO of $661 million-company reveals a trick to identify whether job seekers are 'doers' or 'talkers'
'I’m not hiring people because their presentation skills are phenomenal. I’m hiring them typically because I need certain tasks and certain jobs done,' CEO Omar Asali said.
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Shark Tank judge and millionaire Barbara Corcoran reveals why she refuses to fly first class
Barbara Corcoran said she 'couldn’t fathom justifying' the price tag of a first-class or business-class ticket.
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Why Italy is selling old homes to international buyers for Rs 260
These sales have lured in international buyers as far as the Middle East. Buyers must complete the renovation work on their homes within three years of acquiring it.
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Sam Altman on why he is okay with a 'low' salary and no equity as OpenAI CEO: 'This is my childhood dream job’
Sam Altman is already a billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion, thanks to the equity he owns in Reddit, Stripe, and nuclear fusion firm Helion. On the other hand, a 1 percent stake in OpenAI is worth $1.57 billion.
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Taiwanese artist designs gun that collects her tears, freezes and shoots it at those who hurt her
Yi Fei Chen said she was spurred by an argument with a teacher--where she was reduced to tears--to create the 'tear gun'. After collecting tears, the device takes 20 seconds to freeze them and turn them into 'bullets'.
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Ex-Google executive shares 3 red flags to avoid in resumes: 'Don’t go over 5 bullets...'
Former Google executive Jenny Wood recommended against overdoing parts of the resume as it may question the job seeker's judgment.
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Woman buys house in Italy for Rs 85, spends Rs 3.8 crore in renovations: 'I will never sell it'
When Meredith Tabbone bought the 17th-century house, it had no electricity or running water and had 'two feet of pigeon poop on the floor'.
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Jeff Bezos's salary at Amazon was $80,000 but he made $8 million for every hour in 2024
Between 2023 and 2024, the Amazon founder made $8 million for every hour in the year.
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36-year-old self-made millionaire reveals her biggest investing mistake: 'Tough to identify...'
'I was paying over 2 percent in fees. They sold me an annuity better suited for people in their 50s. I was 26,' Tess Waresmith said, recalling her experience with a financial advisor during her early days as an investor about a decade ago.
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Bill Gates reveals how he turned idle time into deep thinking: 'It was also crucial to my success'
During his time at Microsoft in the ’90s, Bill Gates used to take an annual 'Think Week,' when he would isolate himself in a cabin on Washington’s Hood Canal with nothing but a big bag of books and technical papers.
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CEO of $210 billion company expects employees to work after midnight, holds meetings on weekends
'I don’t believe leaders are born. I believe leaders are trained,' Lisa Su, 55, said. She is the head of AMD, a US-based chipmaker that rivals Nvidia and Intel.
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Motorola Solutions CTO Mahesh Saptharishi: AI-powered cameras can save 10,000 lives a year
Mahesh Saptharishi said that the 'smart' cameras--that don’t cost much more than a more basic or 'dumb camera'--can also help the police in surveillance.
