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Apple’s frontline employees are struggling to survive
Zoe Schiffer, The Verge, 02 December 2021The death of Jimmy Bailey and the mental health issues he experienced working at Apple illustrates a potentially widespread problem for the company's frontline workers. When something goes wrong — a bad manager, a missed paycheck, an untenable onslaught of work — many say they have no one to turn to for help. “Corporate makes decisions based on...
socio political environment
Tech titans, bored with their empires, are searching for new frontiers
Kevin Roose, The Sydney Morning Herald, 01 December 2021In 2015, when Jack Dorsey rejoined Twitter as its interim chief executive, he raved about the app with quasi-religious fervour, calling it “the closest thing we have to a global consciousness”. But on Monday, Dorsey left the pulpit. He resigned, saying in an email to Twitter employees that he believed the company should “stand on its own, free...
socio political environment
Tel Aviv has been named the world’s most expensive city to live in
ABC News, 01 December 2021Last year, Tel Aviv was the fifth-most expensive city in the world to live in. But the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) latest Cost of Living survey says the Israeli city is now the costliest on the planet. First off, the Israeli currency, the shekel, has been very strong, which makes local prices more expensive when they're converted into...
socio political environment
Political leadership and the larrikin myth
Big Ideas Podcast, ABC, 01 December 2021Australia has a larrikin tradition, stretching back to Ned Kelly and Henry Lawson. But, is a lot of what passes for larrikinism, a fabrication? Has it been used as a form of class cover, or has this faux-persona been exploited by political leaders for...
socio political environment
leadership communications
Omicron: how the new variant could shape the pandemic
Babbage Podcast, The Economist, 30 November 2021In this episode of the Babbage podcast, Professor Sharon Peacock, one of the world’s top variant hunters, predicts Omicron will be more transmissible than previous strains. She also discusses how the search for scientific clues…
socio political environment
Corporate disclosure and political giving hits record
Lorraine Woellert, POLITICO, 30 November 2021The number of public companies that disclose or prohibit political spending hit a record this year and more corporations are assigning directors the responsibility of decision-making amid an era of hyper-partisanship. An annual ranking found that 370 companies, up from 332 last year, either ban or disclose political spending, including...
socio political environment
2 out of 3 members of university governing bodies have no professional expertise in the sector. There’s the making of a crisis
Alessandro Pelizzon et al, The Conversation, 30 November 2021To say Australian universities are in crisis "is to state the obvious". A common narrative suggests the most immediate cause of the current crisis is “reduced international student revenue and income from investments, such as dividends” during the pandemic. However, many commentators have noted that the problems besetting Australian...
crisis management
socio political environment
Inflation in 19 nations using euro hits record high of 4.9 per cent
Pan Pylas, Associated Press, 30 November 2021Consumer prices across the 19 countries that use the euro currency are rising at a record rate as a result of a huge spike in energy costs this year. Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency, said the eurozone’s annual inflation rate hit 4.9 per cent in November, the highest since record keeping began in 1997 and up from 4.1 per cent in...
socio political environment
He’ll keep the blue check, though: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down
Joshua Benton, NiemanLab, 29 November 2021There is no social media platform more important to the state of contemporary journalism than Twitter. It’s where journalists — and news junkies in need of a fix — disproportionately choose to spend their time. So, a change at the top of Twitter is significant news. This week, Twitter's CEO, Jack Dorsey, made the sudden public announcement that...
socio political environment
Australian executive pay ‘roars back’ with 70 per cent increase for top 50, analysis finds
Ben Butler, The Guardian, 26 November 2021The remuneration of Australia’s highest-paid chief executives has exploded by an average of almost 70 per cent in the past year, new data shows. Kogan boss, Ruslan Kogan, enjoyed the biggest increase among the top 50 highest paid executives, his pay skyrocketing from $594,000 to almost $9m this year – an increase of more than 1,400 per cent –...
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