EPA Set to Eliminate Over 1,200 Employees By September
“JOBS, JOBS, JOBS,” the Trump campaign liked to say. But upon assuming office, one of the first things that Trump did…
Furloughed Employees During the Shutdown, Visualized
Sometimes a picture can help make sense of a situation. This viz shows the proportion of government employees who are…
Apple May Be Using Retail Store Employees to Fix Their Crap Maps
Mac Rumors claims that Apple is "turning to select Retail Store employees to help improve Maps for iOS 6." What a…
Foxconn Shuts Factory After 2,000-Employee Brawl Breaks Out
Foxconn has had to close down a factory in Taiyuan, China, which employs 79,000 people after a massive brawl broke out…
Facebook Tells Users Not to Give Passwords to Employers As Senate Prepares Anti-Snooping Bill
Facebook's chief privacy officer Erin Egan has sent a warning to social network's users: never give your password to…
Volkswagen Is Forcing Employees to Turn Off Their BlackBerrys So They'll Stop Working All the Time
BlackBerrys are still the de facto standard in the work force and represent a sort of leash an employer has on an…
Would You Rather Stand Or Sit At Your Desk All Day?
The latest office trend sweeping the nation is stand up desks, according to the Wall Street Journal. A growing number…
Google Engineers Are Smarter, Make More Money Than Motorola Counterparts says WSJ
Here's a report that'll raise the hackles of some Motorola employees. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google…
Foxconn Employees Are Being Replaced By Robot Workers
Foxconn, prominent manufacturer for such companies as Apple and Sony and home to many an exhausted employee, has…
A Supermarket Accidentally Opened When No Employees Were Working
What would you do if you walked into a supermarket with no employees inside? Dump everything into 5 carts and run?…
Tech Start-Up Exclusively Hires People with Asperger's Syndrome for Their Technological Prowess
Aspiritech, a Chicago-based tech start up, is a software testing firm that exclusively hires people with Asperger's…
Dell Marketing Stunt Fails Spectacularly: Two Idiot Employees Arrested
To celebrate the release of the new Dell Streak tablet, a genius Dell sales manager in Round Rock, Texas wanted to…
Burger King Employees Fired For Printing 'F— You' On Customer's Receipt
And here I thought Burger King was the classy fast food establishment! Oh wait that's Wendy's. Anywho, two California…
Microsoft (Obviously) Claims Google Employees Would Be Better Off Sticking With Windows
Microsoft really didn't like that a Google employee went public, telling the world the big G is swapping employees'…
Nintendo Investigating Foxconn Conditions
Contrary to a lot of reports, more than just Apple's products are made at Foxconn's Shenzhen factories. Nintendo, whose…
The Math Behind The Foxconn Suicides
This goes some way to explaining why employees at Foxconn may be killing themselves. According to The Telegraph,…
12th Foxconn Employee Jumps; Becomes 10th To Die
Despite Foxconn allegedly asking all employees to sign contracts promising not to kill themselves, another worker has…
Palm Bribes Key Employees to Stick Around as SVP of Software Jumps Ship
An SEC filing shows that Michael Abbott, Palm's Senior Vice President of software and services, will be leaving the…
Remainders - The Things We Didn't Post: Greener Pastures Edition
In today's Remainders: new beginnings. Tim Bray, co-founder of XML, starts a new job at Google (and has his sights set…
Canon Employees Are Forbidden to Sit Down, Walk at Normal Pace
You might think your job sucks, but at least your boss wasn't insane enough to remove all the chairs and install…