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Demoralized, stressed out, and struggling to take care of family members. Energized, efficient, and connected to their coworkers.These are some of the feelings Amazon employees described in interviews with Business Insider as they adjust to its five-day return-to-office mandate.We contacted dozens of employees to understand how the mandate was going…
It’s performance review season at TikTok, and some staff with low scores have been given a choice.They can either go on a performance-improvement plan or leave with severance, employees told BI.The company last year asked managers to deliver more low scores during review cycles.It’s review season for US staff at…
A judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate fired federal probationary employees.The judge said the explanation for firing them for performance issues was a “sham” and a “lie.”The ruling affects employees in the departments of Defense, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, and others.A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to…
Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. I’m Steve Russolillo, BI’s chief news editor, filling in for Jamie Heller these next couple of weeks.I’ve got Katie Notopoulos’ impassioned argument about daylight-saving time on my mind. She…
In a Deloitte survey, 26% of leaders said their organizations were seriously exploring autonomous agents.ServiceNow, SAP, and Salesforce are among the firms that have debuted AI agents to do work tasks.This article is part of “AI in Action,” a series exploring how companies are implementing AI innovations.When clients of the…
Netflix cemented its streaming crown in 2024 and grew its workforce.We analyzed US work-visa data from late 2022 to 2024 to see how much Netflix pays employees.The streamer has offered base salaries between $80,000 and $1 million a year for certain roles, data shows.Netflix won the streaming wars in 2024,…
A judge ruled that federal workers associated with the White House DOGE office can be subpoenaed in a current lawsuit.The lawsuit filed by AFL-CIO seeks information on how the DOGE office is handling sensitive data.US District Judge John Bates highlighted DOGE’s “unclear” structure and authority as keys to the legal…
21 employees from the agency rebranded the US DOGE Service resigned on Tuesday.The signatories said in a joint letter that they refuse to “jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data.”Elon Musk and a spokeswoman for the White House DOGE Office responded to the resignations on X.Twenty-one civil service employees resigned from the agency…
Verizon is seemingly looking to capitalize on rival AT&T’s full-time RTO mandate.In a recruiting email, Verizon mentions remote and hybrid openings amid “changing RTO policies across the industry.”AT&T told BI that its workers “always have a choice” about what company to work for.The rivalry between two of telecom’s biggest players…
Bosses are increasingly watching what their employees are doing during the workday.Demand for employee surveillance software rose 54% from March 2020 to June 2023, a study found.Pressure is on for bosses to cut costs and root out unproductive workers, sources say.If you’re reading this during your workday, there are pretty…
