So, Elon Musk has saved Twitter then
Very rough numbers here: Elon Musk wasn’t lying last October when he told Bloomberg that 75 percent of the employees at his newly acquired toy, Twitter.com, wouldn’t lose their jobs under his...
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Regional airline Flybe has ceased trading and all its scheduled flights have been cancelled, the UK Civil Aviation Authority has announced. “All Flybe flights have now been cancelled. Please do not go...
View ArticleAnd the bias shows up
Long Observer piece about Twitter: In an impossible-to-follow tweet thread that unfolded over several hours, Taibbi published the names and emails of rank and file ex-employees involved in...
View ArticleAnother of those startlingly good job offers
Articles can be anywhere between 300 and 1,800 words. OK. We operate with milestones of 10 articles each and pay $5 per published article. Hence, we pay $50 each time a 10-article milestone is reached....
View ArticleThe Twitter problem
Surely no organisation could survive the termination of the entire “human rights” department, the abrupt demand that everyone return to the office, or the insistence that staff be “hardcore” or else...
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What you need to make a payments business succeed is a large number of people who might like to make payments to each other. Elon Musk is going head to head with his old company PayPal as Twitter gears...
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A charity which cancelled its own “racist, sexist and ableist” exhibition has announced a new £211,000-a-year diversity role. The Wellcome Trust, a London-based health research foundation, is...
View ArticleMistake Arriving!
The vast majority of companies taking part in the world’s largest trial of a four-day week have opted to continue with the new working pattern, in a result hailed as evidence that it could work across...
View ArticleTheft might not be the answer
Ukraine desperately needs to keep its own Army equipped, to keep the country alive, and to pay for the vast amount of reconstruction that will be needed. The IMF estimated in December that the country...
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Sell any company building itself a new HQ? Alarm bells about profligacy and incompetence at Croydon council should have been ringing very loudly after the local authority spent more per square foot...
View ArticleFun this, isn’t it?
Timed to go to the toilet. Told off for leaning. Monitored for each package completed. As a worker at Amazon, I often feel that we aren’t being treated as people. But for me, the moment I knew we...
View ArticleYes, this is rather the point, isn’t it?
Also not great? The fact that a lot of tech CEOs seem to be watching what Musk is doing at Twitter with great interest. To paraphrase Scott Galloway from the high-profile tech podcast Pivot, if Musk...
View ArticleRetauranteur wants office work
Rilly? A billionaire businessman has warned that working from home is holding the UK economy back. Richard Caring, a former clothing retail supplier who owns a number of Mayfair establishments such as...
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Britain’s startup ecosystem dominates VC funding but it boasts one of Europe’s worst gender pay gaps, new report shows European startups pay women 81 cents for every euro they pay to men on average as...
View ArticleWhat a sensible tax policy this is
North Sea oil producer Harbour Energy had its profits all but wiped out by windfall taxes as it warned it had cut investment and staff. The company was hit with $2.4bn (£2bn) of taxes – including...
View ArticleHow many clients?
On the website, he offers exorbitantly priced consultancy for a daily fee of €250,000, stating that “the fee incorporates the fact that my work should generate you a leverage or value added of at least...
View ArticleAmnesty International are indeed ignorant twats then
Amnesty International said Saudi Aramco’s profits were “shocking”, and should be used to fund a “human-rights-based” transition to renewable energy. “It is shocking for a company to make a profit of...
View ArticleFun facts about Mexico
When it comes to touristic cities around the world, there is always something new you can learn every day. When you start to think about Mexico, what comes to your mind? Maybe tequila, tacos,...
View ArticleIn violation of Mr Townshend
Up the Organisation: However, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) said inexperienced officers had been exploited by “very experienced” offenders amid flaws in recruitment which meant that governors...
View ArticleGovernment investment of the day
Oh, how I laugh. One of the big make Britain green projects is the rare earth refinery being built at Saltend. To ally with a mine in Angola. And yes, of course there’s government support for it. All...
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