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Microsoft cut nearly 2,000 employees deemed low performers this year.The cuts come as the company reevaluates its performance review process, people say.Microsoft had been notoriously tough in reviews, but took a softer stance under CEO Satya Nadella.In 2023, a Microsoft employee asked to take on a lighter workload when his…
Tesla is hiring for roles based in Mumbai, India.The recruitment efforts come just days after Elon Musk met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Tesla has long sought to break into India, the world’s third-largest auto market.Tesla is amping up its recruitment efforts in India just days after the country’s prime…
Anna-Louise Dearden commuted 140 miles daily for a job in London while living in Wellingborough.She moved to the countryside for family and affordability, buying a Victorian home in 2004.Dearden now freelances and values flexibility and balance over daily supercommuting.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Anna-Louise Dearden, a…
We bought a fixer-upper in Canada while living in Australia, then moved our family across the world.Living in active construction for years was much more destabilizing than I ever imagined.My husband and I spent double our budget, missed time with our kids, and almost lost each other.In 2017, we were…
My family had outgrown our home in the city and had to choose our next move: suburbs or country.I’d seen what a typical childhood looked like for city kids and didn’t want that life for my children.So, we packed up an moved from a city of 700,000 to a small…
The thought of taking our tired kids out to a dinner they likely wouldn’t enjoy wasn’t appealing.Instead, we left them in our rental armed with devices, made sure they were safe, and set out.This experience allowed us to embrace our kids’ independence once we were back home too.It was the…
By Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) – Country Garden (HK:), once China’s top developer and now facing a liquidation lawsuit, is expected to report steep losses when it publishes long-overdue results on Tuesday, analysts say, as a prolonged property sector crisis weighed on sales. Country Garden delayed the publication of…
(Corrects headline and paragraph 1 with removal of $10.3 billion debt figure, which was the bond size and not the total debt restructuring) HONG KONG (Reuters) -Chinese property developer Country Garden (HK:) on Thursday proposed a deal to restructure offshore debt providing its creditors multiple options including converting debt into…
By Ju-min Park and Hongji Kim MUAN COUNTY, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country’s entire airline operation system as investigators worked to identify victims and find out what caused deadliest air disaster in the country. All 175…
Blackstone’s holiday video series is back, and this time the firm is going country.The video combines another original song with a slew of reality television parodies.BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and fashion designer and reality TV star Jenna Lyons make cameos.Blackstone on Thursday launched its most ambitious holiday video yet, featuring…
