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Amazon workers aren’t happy with the company’s controversial RTO scheme – and they’re making their voices heard
Amazon staff are up in arms over a controversial return to office (RTO) mandate imposed by the company earlier this month. The new working arrangements, unveiled by CEO Andy Jassy in mid-September, will require all staff to return to the office five days per week from January 2025, and will see hotdesking scrapped. Amazon has employed a hybrid work policy…
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How much are companies willing to spend to get workers back to the office? – Computerworld
Even so, you don’t have to go back more than two or three decades to a time when most journalists, even in large newsrooms, had their own offices. That’s how Swedish offices used to look, people had their own rooms — not “cubicles,” but real rooms, with a door, and a small Do Not Disturb lamp. There was desk, pictures…
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Amazon CEO wants workers back in the office five days a week – Computerworld
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has announced that the company’s employees will soon have to work from the office five days a week, just as they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, workers were only required to be in the office three days a week. “Looking back over the past five years, we continue to believe that the benefits of being together in…
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Hybrid workers aren’t disconnected from office colleagues — they’re happier, more productive, and have better workplace relationships
Flexible and hybrid work models have a marked positive impact on employee productivity and foster better connections between staff and management, according to research from Zoom. A survey commissioned by the firm exploring the rise of hybrid work models, their impact, and the strategic imperatives driving changes in working arrangements found the majority (64%) of enterprises had already implemented a…
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PricewaterhouseCoopers’ new CAIO – workers need to know their role with AI – Computerworld
“Just last year, we made a three-year, $1 billion commitment to expand and scale our AI capabilities and help our clients reimagine their businesses through the power of genAI. Building upon this commitment, in May we signed an agreement with OpenAI, making PwC OpenAI’s first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise and largest user of the product, further enhancing our leadership position in AI.…
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Workers are using generative AI tools on the sly, and it needs to stop
UK workers are so keen on generative AI that they’re paying for it themselves, prompting serious concerns about enterprise security. A new report from Deloitte reveals that four-fifths of employees who have used generative AI for work believe the technology will make their current job easier, while nearly seven-in-ten reckon it will make their job more enjoyable. But while enterprise…
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UK proposes giving digital workers the ‘right to switch off’
Britain’s new Labour government is the latest legislature to consider how it might make it easier for digital workers using always-on technologies to turn them off at the end of the working day. In Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay, published before it won the UK’s July general election, it promised to address the issue, saying “We will bring in…
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US citizen charged with aiding North Korean hackers moonlighting as tech workers
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Nashville resident for helping North Korean hackers gain positions at US and UK tech companies. Matthew Isaac Knoot, 38, is accused of being responsible for the US-side of a campaign to get threat actors positions at prominent firms in a bid to steal information and extort ransoms. Knoot was charged on…
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