Dell cuts costs and asks staff to take unpaid leave
Dell has decided to respond to the economic downturn we are currently seeing across all markets around the world. It is doing so in a number of ways in a bid to try…
View ArticleGoogle reprices underwater employee stock options
Google has given its employees a chance to exchange ‘underwater’ stock options in an offer that expired today. {ad} The move allowed employees that had stock options granted prior to Feb. 3, 2009 to…
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BT offers employees one year off for 25% pay
Many companies are attempting to save money at the moment with the more common ideas being shutting down operations for a week, or an extended break over the holiday period. But the British…
View ArticleIs Microsoft a fun place to work at?
There’s a video making the rounds created by Microsoft employees where they try to show the fun side of Microsoft in a quirky way. Instead of showing the benefits of working at Microsoft,…
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Google uses high-tech nap pods to keep employees energized
Google employees certainly get a lot of cool perks. In addition to being able to eat gourmet food for free at their Googleplex headquarters, located in Mountain View, California. It appears some...
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Microsoft giving 90,000 employees Windows 7 phone
Microsoft has decided as part of its push to get Windows 7 phones into as many hands as possible all employees will be getting one for free. When you consider Microsoft has around…
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Facebook beats Google on salary and employee satisfaction
Google has a problem: it is losing staff to Facebook. In an attempt to stop the brain drain the search giant is in some cases taking drastic measures to hold on to people.…
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Google CEO Larry Page links bonuses to social media success
Google is known for being a trend-setting company that’s usually ahead of tech trends. The company has hit almost all the bases right with mobile (Android), search, shopping, mail, and so on, but…
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3 Foxconn employees charged for pre-launch iPad 2 design leak
In the build up to the launch of the iPad 2 there was a lot of speculation as to what Apple had done to make its second-generation tablet better than the first. But…
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Foxconn reopens after riots led to shutdown
It takes a lot to shut down Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn, but after some 2,000 employees rioted on the company’s campus, leading to a response of 5,000 police officers, there was not much…
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It would take a Foxconn worker 14 months to save enough to buy an iPhone 5
If a Foxconn factory worker decided to start saving up for the latest version of the iPhone or iPad today, by the time he or she had enough money to buy it, it…
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White Xbox One is for employees only, is Microsoft missing an opportunity?
Microsoft has decided to reward members of its Interactive Entertainment Business team by gifting them an Xbox One come launch day. You’d expect nothing less for a team that has been working so…
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Apple facing class-action lawsuit by 20,000 of its own employees
Apple is seen by many as a company that you’d seize the opportunity to work for, but apparently that’s not always the case. Just ask 20,000 Apple employees in California who are suing […]
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Apple is about to fire hundreds of Beats staff
Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine have had big smiles on their faces ever since Apple agreed to acquire Beats Electronics for $3 billion back in May. But employees of the audio company would […]
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Virgin copies Netflix, lets staff take as much leave as they want
When computers first appeared in the workplace they allowed companies to be more productive and freed up staff from doing the more menial and mundane tasks. We’ve since progressed to a state where […]
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Supreme Court says Amazon doesn’t have to pay workers to wait in security lines
Amazon warehouse workers have not been happy for years now with their need to stand in line waiting for a security check. The checks are necessary to ensure no products are being stolen, […]
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Apple wins class action lawsuit over employee bag searches
Apple has managed to defeat a class action lawsuit started by its own retail employees over the regular bag searches being carried out every time they leave one of the stores. The employees […]
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