What Is the Twitter Trust and Safety Council?
While Buzzfeed was breaking the news that Twitter’s long-rumoured new algorithmic timeline would be debuting soon, Twitter was busy announcing its new Trust and Safety Council. #RIPTwitter dominated and continues to dominate the conversation on and about the social network this week, with the council’s announcement taking a backseat – or perhaps even more aptly, […]
All Quiet On the January Jobs Report Front
All Quiet On the January Jobs Report Front The January Jobs Report is in: nonfarm payroll employment is up by 151,000 and the jobless rate is now at 4.9%. Happy Jobs Friday! We’re done here, right? Well, almost. As predicted, job growth slowed in January and some of the retail jobs the economy added in […]
Flexibility Stigma: How Bias Against Remote Work Causes Overwork
We’ve talked about the flexibility gap – a difference in quality of life between those who can and cannot work from home, which will widen over time if trends about remote work and the elimination of non-creative work continues. Researches are now talking about flexibility stigma – the bias against remote workers that causes them […]
#OscarsSoWhite Should Have You Looking to Your Own House
The Twitter hashtag #OscarsSoWhite started last year in reaction to the overwhelming whiteness of nominations for Hollywood’s favourite award. This year, with the slate of nominees even more uniformly white, the hashtag returned, along with blistering critiques of the film industry’s lack of diversity in front of and behind the camera. And as the awkward […]
Working and Living in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The theme for this year’s World Economic Forum gathering in Davos was the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The idea goes that we are in midst of, or depending on who you ask, on the cusp of another revolution in industrial production and design, this one driven by ever-deeper levels of automation, machine learning, new materials and 3D […]
What Is a Work Perk Worth?
One of the trends B4J is keeping an eye on in 2016 is the growing popularity of unique perk and benefit packages as a way for employers to differentiate themselves in a competitive marketplace. These packages can come bundled with a generous salary, but increasingly, as trends in tech HR spread to other industries, they supplement […]
