• Facebook outlines plans to increase workforce diversity

    Facebook outlines plans to increase workforce diversity

    Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on Thursday outlined plans to improve minority representation in the higher ranks of the company. In a blog post on the social network’s website, the chief operating officer said Facebook will have 30 percent more people of color, including 30 percent more black employees, in leadership positions within the next five years. …
  • How to keep a strong relationship with your ‘work spouse’ in quarantine

    How to keep a strong relationship with your ‘work spouse’ in quarantine

    When Christopher Rim and Wafa F. Muflahi met seven years ago as undergraduates at Yale, they became close friends, which evolved into a strong working relationship. For the past five years they’ve been colleagues at education and college consulting firm Command Education in Midtown, where Rim’s the CEO and Muflahi’s a partner and senior program …
  • Apple reportedly offers coronavirus tests to returning employees

    Apple reportedly offers coronavirus tests to returning employees

    Apple is reportedly offering coronavirus tests to employees at its Bay Area campus as they begin to return to the office after months of working from home. In addition to having their temperature taken and being required to wear a mask at One Infinite Loop, Apple workers will have the option to get a nasal …
  • Facebook says employees can work at home until year end

    Facebook says employees can work at home until year end

    Facebook said on Friday it would allow its workers who are able to work remotely to do so until the end of the year as the coronavirus pandemic forces governments to extend stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of the disease. The social media giant also expects most offices to stay closed until July 6, …
  • Angry WeWork tenants hire lawyers in effort to claw back rent

    Angry WeWork tenants hire lawyers in effort to claw back rent

    WeWork’s tenants are lawyering up. Attorneys for cash-strapped clients of the office-subleasing startup are demanding that the company stop billing them for office space they can’t use because of coronavirus lockdowns and that it return the cash it has already collected for April and May. “As long as this pandemic prohibits our clients from using …