From Airbnb’s $2,000 to travel, to Netflix’s year of paid maternity leave, thousands of employee reviews reveal the best benefits and perks.
Landing a dream job isn’t always just about the actual work. Among the best companies to work for, employee review platform Glassdoor found that employees were just as jazzed about mission-driven company cultures, great career advancement opportunities, and amazing benefits and perks.
Intel has made progress since it announced its $300 million diversity initiative last year, but retention in some areas is still a problem.
It’s been a year since Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich announced a $300 million, five-year plan to bring the company’s workforce to “full representation” by 2020. A few months ago, we reported that the company surpassed its hiring goals for 2015.
The cost-conscious plan for 2016 includes simplification in the form of layoffs, budget cuts, and a focus on fewer products and countries.
Yahoo’s webcast about how it did in the fourth quarter of 2015 began in spirited fashion, with the traditional “Yahoooooooooo!” yodel. But the actual news that followed was sobering, even though the company beat Wall Street’s expectations with quarterly revenue of $1.28 billion. And more sobering still were the plans CEO Marissa Mayer announced for 2016, which include layoffs, discontinuation of services—and the possibility that part or all of the company could end up being sold off.
After putting booksellers out of business, Amazon is set to open its own retail chain.
Amazon, the online retailer that killed off so many independent bookshops, is getting ready to launch its own brick-and-mortar book chain. According to the Wall Street Journal, the CEO of a major mall operator, General Growth Properties, revealed on Tuesday that Amazon intends to launch hundreds of bookstores.
IBM researchers warn building automation networks could give hackers a way in to corporate networks or an opportunity for physical sabotage.
Increasingly Internet-connected office heating and lighting systems could be a target for hackers seeking a backdoor into corporate networks, warns IBM’s X-Force security research group.
The company that dominates fitness wearables cares more about fashion these days.
More than any other company that makes fitness wearables, Fitbit’s strategy involves a whole lot of devices that, through different designs, feature sets, and price points, try to offer something for everybody. The Fitbit Blaze, for instance, which the company unveiled last month, is the the closest thing to a smartwatch that the company has announced so far, but with a focus on fitness over general-purpose apps that sets it apart from the Apple Watch and its direct competitors.
Musk says all the attention from canceled order must mean it’s “a slow news day.”
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has canceled a venture capitalist’s Tesla Motors Model X order after he wrote a blog post criticizing a Tesla event. In the original post on Medium titled “Dear @ElonMusk: You should be ashamed of yourself,” venture capitalist Stewart Alsop wrote of his frustration over a Model X launch event he attended.
The video reveals the building is close to completion.
A new video shot by a drone shows that Apple’s Campus 2, dubbed the “spaceship,” is moving into the final phase of its construction, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2016. The video was shot by drone pilot Duncan Sinfield and shows that the exterior ring, from which Campus 2 gets its nickname, is fully constructed in places. The large glass panel windows that will cover the structure have been fitted into place in some portions, and in other places the roof is being lifted onto the building.
Buybacks are a move to retain employees in light of weak IPO activity.
Private startups are buying back increasing amounts of stock from employees, reports the Wall Street Journal. The move comes at a time when IPOs of startups have slowed, or have been underwhelming when they did go public.
100 low-income households in Kansas City now have the best Internet access money can buy—for free.
Starting today, every family in a Kansas City townhouse community called West Bluff will have access to Google Fiber, the gigabit-speed Internet access that makes other flavors of broadband feel like a sluggish anachronism. And they’re getting it for free.
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