Blog Microsoft Finally, Officially Pulls the Plug on Internet Explorer Happy Valentine’s Day — Internet Explorer is now dead. After announcing it would phase out the legacy browser last year, Microsoft announced that it permanently disabled Internet Explorer 11 on consumer versions of Windows 10. The browser was available on Windows 10 previously, despite Microsoft noting that it was “retired” and “out of support.” Windows […]
Blog Barney the Purple Dinosaur is Back and has a New Look Barney is back, and while Mattel has not yet officially confirmed it, we’re guessing he still loves you. Toy giant Mattel (MAT) announced Monday that Barney, the friendly (and, let’s be honest, cringe-worthy to a large group of Millennials who watched him as pre-schoolers, and to their parents) purple dinosaur is making a triumphant […]
Blog NYC Ending COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate New York City, which once had the nation’s strictest workplace vaccination rules for COVID-19, is ending one of its last such mandates, saying it will no longer require the shots for municipal employees including police officers, firefighters and teachers. The vaccine mandate, which led to the firing of hundreds of city workers who declined to […]
Blog EBay Will Cut 4% of Its Workforce EBay Inc. is cutting about 500 employees — or 4% of its workforce — as the e-commerce company continues to face slower consumer spending after a brief pandemic boom. The reductions are in response to the “macroeconomic situation around the world,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Iannone said Tuesday in a statement, and are necessary to […]
Blog A 30% National Sales Tax A 30% national sales tax? Abolishing the IRS? What the FairTax Act of 2023 would do. There is hardly an area of American life more subject to partisan debate than the tax code. Democrats want to raise taxes. Republicans want to slash them. At least that’s how the well-worn narrative goes. But, in actuality, debate […]
Blog Jobs Without a Degree? Georgia Senate advances bill cutting college degree requirements for state jobs GA would join states such as CO and MD in eliminating some degree requirements A Georgia Senate committee is advancing a bill that would instruct an agency to examine qualifications for state government jobs and not require a college degree unless truly necessary. The […]
Blog Watch Out, Managers: The Job Cuts Are Coming For You Next Thousands of workers have already gotten pink slips this year, and it seems managers may be next. Companies like Meta and FedEx are paring back managerial jobs; others like Intel are cutting pay. Managers may be an easy target as companies correct course after over hiring in the past few years. Managers, beware: Layoffs have […]
Blog Meta Layoffs Meta layoffs: CEO Mark Zuckerberg hints at more job cuts, middle managers at stake, say reports After firing 11,000 employees in November last year, Meta layoffs are planning for more layoff as Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has now put middle managers at the company on notice, said reports. During a meeting with the […]
Blog Philips to Cut 13% of Jobs Philips to cut 13% of jobs in safety and profitability drive Dutch health technology company Philips will scrap another 6,000 jobs worldwide as it tries to restore its profitability and improve the safety of its products following a recall of respiratory devices that knocked off 70% of its market value. Half of the job cuts […]
Blog ‘They Fire, We Hire’ ‘They fire, we hire’ – Germany seizes on Silicon Valley’s woes Faced with a tight labor market and a shortage of workers with key software engineering skills, some German companies are looking at thousands of layoffs in Silicon Valley as an opportunity to recruit top talent. The U.S. West Coast has always been the main […]