Facebook’s new live video tool offers great possibilities for building community if you’re smart about using it.
Online video is nothing new, and neither is Facebook, but in the past year, Facebook has rolled out a new tool to all users that combines the two in intriguing ways. Facebook Live allows anyone to broadcast live video to friends and followers while interacting with the people who are tuned in.
We don’t so much adapt to less-than-ideal work environments as merely put up with them.
For most of us, our workspace is what it is. If your employer has cubicles or one long communal table, then that’s where you work, and the best you can do is adapt. The trouble is that many of us don’t adapt to less-than-ideal work environments as well as we could. More often, we just put up with them.
Could this startup’s “radically transparent” internal communications system with cameras trained on all employees be the future of work?
The very first thing Ryan Smith says to me is, “it’s probably the furthest thing from the big brother app that you could ever think about.” He knew where my mind was going.
Pouring yourself into your job isn’t necessarily a bad thing, just as long as you set boundaries.
A recent study conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health found that “more than one in every four Americans say they had a great deal of stress in the previous month.” That would come out to about 115 million Americans, give or take.
We talked to hiring experts to find out which questions trip up most job candidates, and the better answers that could win you the job.
Going on a job interview can make you feel like you’re back in school taking an exam. Instead of the “test” having one clear and right answer, however, responding to questions feels like hopeful guesses mixed with uncomfortable posturing.
Not even a year after launch, the playlist is boasting some big, impressive numbers.
We knew that Discover Weekly was a hit when we saw our friends on Spotify listening to the personalized playlist in droves. Now the data keeps rolling in: Discover Weekly has streamed nearly 5 billion tracks since its launch last July. All told, 40 million Spotify listeners have used Discover Weekly. That’s about three times the number of people using Apple Music and Tidal combined.
The IRS, sharing-economy companies (such as Uber and TaskRabbit), and contract workers may have to work together to fix the problem.
The U.S. tax system was not prepared for the rise of on-demand or sharing-economy businesses like Uber and TaskRabbit. Or maybe it’s that sharing-economy contractors have trouble navigating the labyrinthine tax code.
The use of language and the ability to tell a story helps level the playing field for women entrepreneurs seeking funding through Indiegogo.
From glass ceilings to wage gaps, women in the workforce are often at a disadvantage. For female entrepreneurs, the challenges are sometimes even greater. But recent research has uncovered something that is working in women founders’ favor: storytelling on crowdfunding platforms.
The company’s top marketing guys in North America talk about a changing brand, the new medium of VR, and a new approach to selling phones.
Samsung is getting an image makeover. Historically, the South Korean electronics giant has been seen by Westerners as huge, foreign, inscrutable, and old school. But the company is trying to put forward a different face in its public appearances and TV commercials.
As labor changes, so too will labor organizations. Many unions are still trying to understand exactly how.
This weekend, the 3,000 member delegates of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the organization’s highest governing body, gathered together in Detroit for a convention the union hosts every four years. At the meeting, the SEIU sets its goals and priorities. One of those new goals, agreed upon through a floor vote, includes, “Becoming a Technologically Advanced Organization.” The SEIU also plans to hire a “Strategic Technology Director” and build a network of thought leaders, which it has termed “the Innovation Center,” to experiment with new ways to organize labor.
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