ComputerWorld IT Management

JUNE 8, 2023

Google has updated its hybrid work policy, cracking down on employees who aren’t consistently working from the office. In memos seen by reporters at The Verge and CNBC , Google said it will start tracking office badges to see how often workers are coming into the office.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook will let its employees continue to work from home through July 2021, the company announced today. It joins other companies like Google , will also allow employees to work remotely until next summer due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We regret the error.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. The issue appears to be entirely on T-Mobile’s end: While AT&T tells The Verge that its network is “operating normally” and Verizon says its network is “performing well,” T-Mobile confirmed that it’s working to fix “a voice and data issue that has been affecting customers around the country.”.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The New York Times reports today that the company is working on a copycat of Clubhouse, the buzzy invite-only social audio startup. Twitter is also working on a Clubhouse competitor called Spaces , which is in beta at the moment.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Parrish, a program manager on Apple Maps, was terminated for deleting files off of her work devices during an internal investigation — an action Apple categorized as “non-compliance,” according to people familiar with the situation.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

JUNE 8, 2023

Google has updated its hybrid work policy, cracking down on employees who aren’t consistently working from the office. In memos seen by reporters at The Verge and CNBC , Google said it will start tracking office badges to see how often workers are coming into the office.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Apple is reportedly working on a VR headset that will include a fabric design, a fan, and an expensive price tag. Apple is reportedly working on “some of its most advanced and powerful chips” for this unannounced VR headset, with some chips reportedly beating its own M1 Mac processors.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The company is currently investigating claims Gjøvik made about a hostile work environment. I asked them to mitigate the hostile work environment while they investigate, and they initially offered me EAP therapy and medical leave. This seems to include me not using Apple's internal Slack.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Microsoft is allowing its employees to work from home permanently. The Verge has received Microsoft’s internal guidance, and it outlines the company’s flexible working plans for the future. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Microsoft’s hardware labs.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google plans to keep 200,000 full-time and contract employees working remotely until at least July 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported. Facebook , Twitter, and Square have already announced plans to allow workers to continue working remotely indefinitely.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

. “How, when, and where employees do their jobs has dramatically changed and DTO aligns with more flexible ways of working.” ” The new policy is in addition to corporate holidays, leaves of absence, and time off for sick days, mental health, jury duty, or bereavement, The Verge reported.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Initial reports suggested Verizon might be having issues, but Verizon spokesperson Kevin King tells The Verge that its network is operating “business as usual.”. T-Mobile has not responded to requests for comment from The Verge. Image by Downdetector.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. It’s a commitment from the platform to dealing with people who use Tor in an equitable fashion,” Muffett told The Verge over Twitter direct message. Tools like SecureDrop, which The Verge and other sites use to receive secure documents, also run through Tor.

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2022

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. The problem doesn’t seem to be affecting everyone, as some staffers at The Verge had PlayStation Plus errors while trying to play Elden Ring , but for others, things are working just fine. We are conducting an investigation and restoration work, so please wait for a while.”.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2022

Photo illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge; Jason Davis / Getty Images. One slide from a pitch deck viewed by The Verge describes a “viral influencer network” as the secret to making client content take off, showing a single video being passed around by a network of friendly faces. s Facebook following. s Facebook following.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook will require its US employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when they return to the office, the company confirmed to The Verge on Wednesday. “As We continue to work with experts to ensure our return to office plans prioritize everyone’s health and safety.”.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

On Friday, it appears a large number of Basecamp employees are taking Hansson up on his offer: according to The Verge contributing editor Casey Newton’s sources, roughly a third of the company’s 57 employees accepted buyouts today. The last 3yrs I led the iOS team working alongside @dylanginsburg and @zachwaugh — they are the best.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Workers at a Houston, Texas facility that processes repairs for Apple, Dell, and Lenovo reportedly say they are working in “sweatshop” conditions, according to a story from Insider. Some employees told Insider that they had to work 60 hours a week just to make ends meet.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Apple employees will return to offices February 1st | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Apple employees will return to offices starting February 1st as part of a hybrid work pilot and will be able to work remotely for four weeks a year. They’ll be able to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Apple is delaying its plan to return to mandatory in-person work because of the increase of COVID cases driven by the Delta variant, according to Bloomberg. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for example, told The Verge last year that he sees around half of the company permanently shifting to remote work within the next five to ten years.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Workers at the site handle moderation, customer service, and other tasks for Facebook and WhatsApp — and a work stoppage has already been threatened if the situation is not resolved. If these issues are not resolved immediately a work stoppage will be enacted,” the letter promised.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Screenshot: Jay Peters / The Verge. Screenshot: Jay Peters / The Verge. Screenshot: Jay Peters / The Verge. Fortunately, weapons were added to everyone’s inventory, so players worked to fend off the incoming zombie troopers (though the zombies didn’t seem to pose any real threat). Screenshot: Jay Peters / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 1, 2022

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Attentive readers may recall that Microsoft said the following this past September : “We remain committed to providing updates to Surface Duo, and we’re working to bring Android 11 to existing customers before the end of this year.” We are officially in 2022. Know what that means?

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge. People work at Apple because they are design fanatics. Fewer leaks mean fewer distractions and more time to focus on the work. Working at Apple is widely seen as the pinnacle of success in the tech industry, even more than the company’s biggest rivals. It was leaked to The Verge.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Photo by Alex Castro / The Verge. Our favorites for all your new devices While it’s really great to get a new tech device — a phone, a laptop, a game console, a Kindle, or a TV — as a gift, it’s even cooler to start working or playing with it. So take a look at what The Verge staff recommends, and enjoy! But where to begin?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As we work to ensure that tragedies such as this one are not repeated, we seek answers about what happened at your Edwardsville warehouse,” the letter continues, “and whether your policies may have contributed to this tragedy.”. “As It takes issue with a long list of problems at Amazon facilities. Bush, who represents a district in St.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A YouTube spokesperson told The Verge that the feature is currently rolling out to Premium subscribers, and that a launch for all iOS users (including the free ones) in the US is in the works.

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The Verge

AUGUST 23, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The effort has already gained support from organizers like Timnit Gebru, who worked at Apple prior to joining Google in 2018. Now, she tells The Verge , “I experienced so many egregious things when I was at Apple, and always wondered how they manage to get out of the spotlight.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2020

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge. Tesla began making cars again at its Fremont, California plant over the weekend despite an ongoing battle with local officials about whether it should remain closed during the pandemic, The Verge has learned. News of the employees being called back was previously reported by Business Insider.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. While workers on the third floor were told to clock out, go on unpaid voluntary time off (VTO), and evacuate, employees on the other floors were allegedly left to continue working as an unidentified vapor spread throughout the facility.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. An internal Amazon email seen by The Verge confirms that its Prime Day shopping event will take place October 13th and 14th, and that the company will make an official announcement September 27th. Whatever the date, Amazon likely wants to keep Prime Day and Black Friday sales from overlapping.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. And a manager at the Southlake store apparently had asked employees to come even if they had called in sick: NBC spoke with four current and former employees at the Southlake store who said they’ve received calls from their manager encouraging them to come to work, even when they called out sick.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Some health experts have expressed concern about employees who are still sick having to work. Public health experts have said it’s supported by research, but some have expressed concern about employees who are still sick being brought back to work.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

The company, a subsidiary of Google-parent Alphabet, is releasing the data for free, with some scientists comparing the potential impact of the work to that of the Human Genome Project, an international effort to map every human gene. There is a HumanProteome.zip effectively, I think it’s about 50 gigabytes in size,” Jumper tells The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. After taking a first look at the Xbox Series X earlier this month , The Verge now has a working Xbox Series X unit with a 1TB expansion card and Microsoft’s updated controller. Stay tuned to @verge for my initial preview impressions. Photography by Tom Warren / The Verge.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A report from The Verge late last year detailed the difficulties many hourly Apple employees face, including low wages and a high-stress workplace. Workers at other Apple stores are also involved in union drives, but not all are working with the CWA.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Facebook was down for six hours on Monday | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Employees were unable to connect with each other on company message boards, and some told The Verge they were using work-provided Outlook email accounts to communicate.

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