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Amazon orders employees to work from office 5 days a week, internet calls it 'stealth layoff'
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's announcement has been called a 'stealth layoff' by many on social media because it is likely to push employees who want to prioritise a better work-life balance into finding new jobs.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes leaders are turning into event managers. Here's why
'If I say I have a meeting, nobody is going to show up but if I say I have an event, people are going to come,' Satya Nadella said during a chat with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
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Mark Zuckerberg reveals his biggest mistake as head of Facebook: 'It was a political miscalculation'
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said he regretted not being more outspoken about the pressure from the US government in 2016 and added that now, he’s found the right balance on political issues.
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Nadella on Microsoft's 'productivity paradox': 85% managers think workers are slacking, 85% staff say...
Satya Nadella also stressed on the need for industry leaders to develop soft skills to better manage their employees in a changing environment. 'We have this paradox on how you can see these things in two different ways. And the only way around it to me is you have got to use data. Dogma is not going to help,' he said.
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Melinda French Gates faced sexism working with ex-husband Bill Gates: 'If I went to a president...'
Melinda French Gates has also been deploying what social media has dubbed as 'microfeminism' in her work. 'I’ve been in situations in the last year where speakers will go to answer a question. Maybe there’s both men and women who want to answer, and for whatever reason the man gets in there first,' she said.
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40-year-old suffers brain haemorrhage after listening to loud music: Report
A CT scan of the patient revealed a blood clot in his brain due to a ruptured blood vessel, a doctor from Ambikapur Government Medical College said, adding that the DJ's loud music might have caused it.
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Ex-senior employee of Google, Yahoo, and Facebook says taking a demotion was 'a great move'
The founder-CEO of Rising Team Jennifer Dulski had started her career with Yahoo that offered her half the money other companies did. 'Most of my peers didn't understand that choice at the time,' she said.
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Edelweiss Mutual Funds CEO Radhika Gupta on why she doesn't own luxury cars: 'I can afford it but...'
Talking about the evolution of her relationship with money over the last two decades, Radhika Gupta said, 'Eighteen years ago, when I graduated from college and people would say Oh! You don't have a fancy handbag? I would feel insecure about it. Now, if ...'
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Odisha man marries 15 women, blackmails them using explicit videos, arrested: Report
The accused, Biranchi Narayan Nath, used several names and took up various professions, sometimes a railway officer or an income tax officer and even a customs and central excise officer. 'During investigation, we found he had defrauded numerous other women in many states. His phone records showed nearly 15 women fell into his trap,' a senior crime branch officer said.
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This 29-year-old 'minimalist' millionaire does not own a home: 'I don’t have a family, so why?'
Unlike his peers, Timothy Armoo does not like buying extravagant things. 'I’m generally quite a minimalist person,' he said. Also, unlike his peers, he has no interest in investing in real estate. 'I actually don’t own a house.'
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Bye 9 to 5, hello 10 to 4: Employees are reaching office late and leaving early, shows data
The report also highlighted how work-life balance is becoming a priority for a growing number of professionals across the world. Another recent survey found that more employees have been preferring a healthy work-life balance, flexible hours, and mental health support to climbing the corporate ladder.
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Albert Einstein's letter warning of atomic weapons sold at auction for Rs 32.7 crore
Written in the summer of 1939, the letter warned that Germany could develop 'extremely powerful bombs' using uranium and urged the US President to 'speed up' the country's work on the subject eventually leading to the Manhattan Project and the development of atomic bombs.
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Ex-Twitter employee wins Rs 5 crore after he was fired for not responding to Elon Musk's email
X used messages the former employee sent to his colleagues on Slack to prove that he intended to leave the company. But the man, who had worked with the social media platform for about a decade said 'at no time have I indicated to Twitter that I am resigning my position'.
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'I'm happy I got laid off from Deloitte': Ex-employee says her Rs 76 lakh salary was not worth it
The 25-year-old said she came from a low-income family and always felt like an outsider among her peers who were dressed in designer pieces. The 11-hour shifts during the busy months also had a negative impact on her physical and mental health. 'My back ached from being glued to my seat all day... I gained 9 kg in just a few months,' she said.
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol shares career advice: 'It’s a cliché, but you absolutely have to believe...'
Brian Niccol also opened up about what set him apart from other candidates when it came to getting the CEO role at Starbucks. He said that it was his confidence and a five-word phrase he used that convinced recruiters that he was indeed perfect for the job.
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Mumbai entrepreneur slams KreditBee for denying loan without male guarantor: 'Women are just as capable'
Simran Sainani's post struck a chord with other women entrepreneurs. Shilpa Vadrevu, a founder from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, claimed that her loan applications too were rejected by banks despite having an 'excellent credit score' because she did not have a male co-applicant.
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Elon Musk reacts as 'childless cat lady' Taylor Swift supports Kamala Harris: 'I will give you a child'
Elon Musk, who welcomed his twelfth child in June, has been a vocal advocate for people producing more babies while Taylor Swift identified herself as a 'childless cat lady' -- a reference to comments made by Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance in 2021 about 'childless cat ladies' running the country.
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Bill Gates wants to work another 20-30 years like his friend Warren Buffett 'if my health allows'
Currently, Bill Gates is a technology advisor for Microsoft and spends much of his time using his $128 billion fortune to fund potential solutions for global problems such as climate change, poverty, and disease, among others.
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Kamala Harris pays tribute to Indian grandparents: 'Their fight for a better future live on in me'
Kamala Harris said that her maternal grandmother traveled across India—'bullhorn in hand'—to speak with women about accessing birth control.
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Bengaluru's Brookfield Layout residents pool in Rs 4 lakh to restore dug-up road with help from Bescom
The entire project was estimated to be worth Rs 5.07 lakh. Bescom paid Rs 1.5 lakh while the residents crowd funded the rest. 'The quality of life matters a lot to the thousand-odd families that stay in the neighbourhood,' said Siddharth, the top contributor.
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Namibia to kill over 700 wild animals to feed its people amid severe drought, famine
The animals set to be killed include 83 elephants, 30 hippos, 60 buffaloes, 50 impalas, 100 blue wildebeest, 300 zebras, and 100 elands. Over 157 animals have already been culled in the African country, yielding about 63 tons of meat.
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Anupam Mittal is 'blown away' by good roads in Rajasthan: 'Mumbai waalon ne kya paap kiya?'
Even filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri joined ranks with Anupam Mittal and trolled BMC for its 'innovative' footpath designs and poor quality roads. Last week, he shared a news story on how Mumbai residents began to perform pothole pujas in a unique protest against bad roads. 'It's so bad that it's funny,' Agnihotri had said.
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Over 100 tons of rotting dead fish raise a stink in Greek city as country declares emergency. Watch
'The situation with this dead fish will be the death of us,' said Stefanos Stefanou, the president of the local association of restaurants and bars. 'What visitor will come to our city after this?'
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'ChatGPT is like talking Taylor Swift to grandfather': Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma made the comment after observing the difference in the results produced by both ChatGPT and Perplexity when asked the same question.
