Google is finally ending forced arbitration for its employees, Axios reports. These changes will go into effect for both current and future Google employees on March 21. For the contractors Google works with directly, it will remove mandatory arbitration from their contracts. The caveat, however, is that it won’t require outside firms that employe contractors […]
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Zendesk just hired three former Microsoft, Salesforce and Adobe execs
Today, Zendesk announced it had hired three new executives — Elisabeth Zornes, former general manager of global support for Microsoft Office, as Zendesk’s first chief customer officer; former Adobe executive Colleen Berube as chief information officer and former Salesforce executive Shawna Wolverton as senior vice president, product. The company emphasized that the hirings were about […]
View More Zendesk just hired three former Microsoft, Salesforce and Adobe execsDoorDash subsidizes driver wages with tips
It’s true that DoorDash offsets the amount it pays its drivers with customer tip, according to an FAQ page on its own site. “For each delivery, you will always receive at least $1 from DoorDash plus 100% of the customer tip,” DoorDash states on a Dasher FAQ page. “Where that sum is less than the guaranteed […]
View More DoorDash subsidizes driver wages with tipsInvestors are still failing to back founders from diverse backgrounds
The large majority of venture dollars are invested in companies run by white men with a university degree, according to a new report by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. This new data reveals that despite the lip service investors have paid to backing founders from diverse backgrounds, much, much, more work needs to be done to actually […]
View More Investors are still failing to back founders from diverse backgroundsStudy confirms women and people of color crushed it at the 2018 box office
The future is female, diverse, and lucrative as hell.
A new study conducted by USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has revealed what many 2018 moviegoers already knew: Women and people of color crushed it at the box office.
Looking at the 100 highest-grossing films from each of the past 12 years, USC’s research team broke down 2018’s diversity gains by comparing last year’s casting stats with previously established casting trends.
Here are a few of the study’s major finds about the top 100 films of 2018, compared to the top 100 films of each year since 2007: Read more…
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View More Study confirms women and people of color crushed it at the 2018 box officeGoogle expands partnership with Founder Gym to support underrepresented founders
Google for Startups has expanded a partnership with startup training program Founder Gym to better serve underrepresented founders through a new scholarship program. The program typically charges $396 to participate, but thanks to this partnership with Google for Startups, Google will cover the costs for select scholarship recipients to participate in the six-week program. This partnership […]
View More Google expands partnership with Founder Gym to support underrepresented foundersOracle says racial discrimination lawsuit is ‘meritless’
Oracle says the racial discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is “meritless.” This comes after Oracle declined yesterday to comment on the OFCCP’s filing that alleges Oracle withheld $400 million in wages from underrepresented employees. “This meritless lawsuit is based on false allegations and a seriously flawed […]
View More Oracle says racial discrimination lawsuit is ‘meritless’Oracle allegedly withheld $400 million in wages from underrepresented employees
Oracle has allegedly withheld $400 million in wages from racially underrepresented workers (black, Latinx and Asian) as well as women, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs said in a filing today. The OFCCP is the office within the DOL that enforces equal pay and ensures government contractors comply with anti-discrimination regulation. In […]
View More Oracle allegedly withheld $400 million in wages from underrepresented employeesOkta appoints former Charles Schwab exec to board of directors
Former Charles Schwab chief marketing officer Becky Saeger becomes Okta’s third female board member.
View More Okta appoints former Charles Schwab exec to board of directors‘Breaking Bad’ star RJ Mitte and ‘bionic actress’ Angel Giuffria are on a mission to change disability representation in Hollywood
Angel Giuffria is known as the ‘bionic actress’ because she wears a high-tech prosthetic arm that she likes to tinker with and customizeRJ Mitte is an actor who reached worldwide fame following his portrayal of Walter Jr. on the show ‘Breaking Bad’.&…
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If you picked up a print copy of the New York Times on Thursday, you were greeted with a special cover highlighting the record number of women (131) who are part of the 116th Congress.
But they’re not all featured on one cover. There are 27 different covers featuring both new and continuing members of Congress, one for each of the 27 regions where the Times delivers print editions.
A gif with all 27 covers of the @nytimes special section coming Thursday of the record number of women in the 116th Congress#nytimes @bizherman pic.twitter.com/rufnIiq3Ik
— Tom Jolly (@TomJolly) January 16, 2019 Read more…
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Why Google engineers worked full-time to combat sex trafficking
When the government seized classified-ads site Backpage, forcing it to shut down in April, it became a lot harder to find and locate potential victims of sex trafficking. While it was symbolically good that the site, whose CEO later pled guilty to charges of sex trafficking, shut down, it created a significant technical challenge for law enforcement and […]
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