Tag: careers
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I tried Elon Musk’s productivity hack of breaking my entire day into 5-minute slots. It was annoyingly inflexible – but I got a lot more done.
Elon Musk at a press event on the grounds of the Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin. Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images As the CEO of three companies, Elon Musk has a lot on his plate. He works excessive hours and breaks his time into five-minute segments to get things done. I tested out his system…
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Google is right to cut remote workers’ pay. The alternative is inequity and an overpaid nomadic class.
Westend61/Getty Images Isabelle Roughol is the host of Borderline, a podcast and newsletter about living and working across borders. Tech companies who say they'll dock remote workers' pay are being fair, not greedy, she argues. This is because employers consider cost of living and cost of talent when calculating pay. This is an opinion column.…
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Do you need a college degree to be in marketing?
The technology sector is creating a statement. You don’t need a college diploma to find a job nowadays. More than half of those coders at Google don’t have a college diploma and many organizations are eliminating this requirement from applications. Google is planning to establish three additional classes : one to data analysts, you for…
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Silicon Valley’s workforce is falling out of love with massive tech campuses. Experts predict what will take its place are networks of satellite offices.
Amazon's office in Boulder, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post through Getty Images The future of the tech office is not clustered in Silicon Valley, specialists advised Business Insider. Rather, tech companies will likely adopt a”hub-and-spoke” version, with satellite offices built across the US. At a post-coronavirus era, employees might have a”remote-first” job schedule, and…
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What a dream retirement plan looks like for 10 of the richest CEOs in America
Bill Gates has already retired as CEO, but Warren Buffett is still going strong. Rick Wilking/Reuters Retirement is inevitable, even for the world’s richest CEOs. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk will retire eventually. While some of the world’s richest CEOs say they can’t imagine retiring,…