Sources: after cutting ~3,700 staff, Twitter asks dozens to return upon realizing some are needed to build features Musk wants and others were sacked in error
Twitter Inc., after laying off roughly half the company on Friday following Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition …
Sources: Twitter is strongly considering taking away its verified users' badges if they don't subscribe to Twitter Blue
Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification — Twitter is strongly considering making its users pay to remain verified …
Sources: Twitter could make Twitter Blue a $20/month subscription that verifies users; staff have until November 7 to build the feature or face being fired
Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.
Mailchimp CEO Ben Chestnut stepped down in August 2022 after sending an email saying that staff announcing their pronouns in meetings “does more harm than good”
even coercive. Read it in full: https://www.platformer.news/ ... James DePorre / @revshark : I think he had a good point. https://twitter.com/...
Google agrees to pay $118M to settle a gender pay discrimination lawsuit with about 15,500 female employees, according to the law firms representing the women
Robert Burnson / Bloomberg :
Google agrees to pay $118M to settle a gender pay discrimination lawsuit with about 15,500 female employees, according to the law firms representing the women
Robert Burnson / Bloomberg :
Intuit says it has agreed to acquire Mailchimp for $12B in cash and stock
- Intuit will buy email marketing company Mailchimp for $12 billion, the companies announced Monday. — Intuit said it will use the acquisition to accelerate growth among small bus...
Apple places female engineering program manager on administrative leave after she tweeted about sexism in the office
Ashley Gjøvik says the employee relations team implied she should stay off Slack pending an ongoing investigation — Apple has placed senior engineering program …
Four former Google employees earn class action status from CA judge in gender pay gap lawsuit against the company; over 10,800 women will seek $600M+ in damages
- Suit represents 10,800 women seeking more than $600 million — Company said it has spent eight years making sure pay is fair
30 current and former Mailchimp staffers detail the conditions that led to a “mass exodus” of women and people of color, including high profile execs, directors
Current and former Google employees say the company's HR routinely offers mental health counseling and medical leave when staff complain about racism and sexism
and even participate in it.” Oh I feel this in my bones. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Tiffani Ashley Bell / @tiffani : I read this this morning and I had to put it down for a sec wh...
Eleven current and ex-Mailchimp employees say company executives knew about allegations of racism and sexism at the company, some as early as 2014
is anyone listening? https://www.theverge.com/... @alex : a classic dodge https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Here's @ZoeSchiffer with a ...
Eleven current and ex-Mailchimp employees say company executives knew about allegations of racism and sexism at the company, some as early as 2014
is anyone listening? https://www.theverge.com/... @alex : a classic dodge https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Here's @ZoeSchiffer with a ...
A high-profile engineer at Mailchimp accuses the company of “sexism and bullying” in her resignation announcement
- Mailchimp engineer Kelly Ellis quit Wednesday after accusing the company of “sexism and bullying.” — Ellis said in a Twitter thread that she resigned after a conversation about ...
Internal memo: Sundar Pichai apologizes over the handling of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru's departure and says he will investigate
Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized Wednesday for the company's handling of the departure of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru and said he would investigate …
Coinbase publishes a “clarification” of its mission, stating it won't take on activism outside of its focus or debate causes or political candidates internally
There have been a lot of difficult events in the world this year: a global pandemic, shelter in place, social unrest …
Leaked audio recordings and internal posts show Mark Zuckerberg's balancing act, as employees demand a harder line against Trump but users want the opposite
Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, which affected equities, crypto, and options trading until late in the day
Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC :
In leaked video, Sundar Pichai admits at an all-hands that Google is “genuinely struggling” with employee trust as it defends the hiring of former DHS official
At company's weekly town hall with employees, executives assail leaks and defend hiring DHS official
In leaked video, Sundar Pichai admits at an all-hands that Google is “genuinely struggling” with employee trust as it defends the hiring of former DHS official
At company's weekly town hall with employees, executives assail leaks and defend hiring DHS official