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Just hearing the words “open enrollment” is enough to make anyone groan with boredom. But what if you could enroll in health insurance at work by talking to a computer? You’re asked a few simple questions about your family, your lifestyle and your medical history, and within nine minutes, you’re done. Enter Jellyvision and Alex, […]
Just hearing the words “open enrollment” is enough to make anyone groan with boredom. But what if you could enroll in health insurance at work by talking to a computer? You’re asked a few simple questions about your family, your lifestyle and your medical history, and within nine minutes, you’re done. Enter Jellyvision and Alex, […]
After a video of his unhinged verbal and physical attack on a customer wearing a Trump t-shirt went viral, a clerk at an Atlanta vape store has reportedly been fired. Score one for Twitter vigilante justice? Seemingly triggered by Ian Furgeson’s pro-Donald Trump t-shirt (though we don’t know what happened before he started recording), a […]
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Business Insider/Danielle Muoio Every six months, Uber conducts an employee survey. Business Insider has seen the results of the latest survey for the 1,100-employee self-driving car unit released to employees earlier this week. Most employees praised the unit’s renewed focus on safety as the company puts its cars back on the public road for testing […]
Troy Wolverton/Business Insider Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, this week defended Google’s work on Project Maven — its controversial pilot program with the Pentagon. Employee objections to the work, which involved developing artificial-intelligence technologies for use by the Defense Department, were based on a misunderstanding of the nature of the work, […]
A black Facebook employee’s post alleging racial discrimination at the social media giant has gone viral, depicting a racially tone-deaf company and challenging the “progressive” Silicon Valley company’s public image. Mark Luckie shared the message with Facebook management and employees earlier this month after leaving his post as Strategic Partner Manager for Global Influencers focused […]
Screenshot via Twitter Video shows a man launching into a racist tirade at a Dunkin’-Baskin Robbins store in Miami Beach, Florida. The man can be seen and heard repeatedly shouting the N-word at an employee there. It is not entirely clear what set the man off, but a witness told the local ABC affiliate WPLG […]
Saudi Arabia may have done more than use large-scale social media campaigns to stifle political opposition. New York Times sources claim the country was “grooming” a Twitter engineer, Ali Alzabarah, to snoop on the accounts of dissidents and other targets. Western officials reportedly warned Twitter in late 2015 that Alzabarah had not only grown close […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty LinkedIn announced its intent to buy the employee survey software company Glint in a deal said to be valued at more than $ 400 million. Glint specializes in employee surveys measuring satisfaction with management, compensation, and other internal issues. The company last raised $ 20 million in November 2017, at a $ 220 million valuation. […]
