Bestselling author James Patterson has awarded $500 bonuses to 600 employees at independent bookstores across the United States. That’s a total of $300,000, as the Associated Press reported on Wednesday, Dec. 13. The employees were nominated by their store owners, managers, peers,
Meghan Markle has often appeared at pains to demonstrate her feminist credentials, to use her platform to advance the cause for women’s rights. And who could blame her? Equality among the sexes is a worthwhile pursuit, especially for someone with the capacity
A mental health firm that employs Prince Harry has been blasted for its “toxicity” by former employees following a round of cuts. BetterUp, which employed the Duke of Sussex as its chief impact officer two years ago for a reported £1 million
Employees following a four-day workweek model perform better and enjoy improved well-being, a long-term trial has found. South Cambridgeshire District Council trialled the reduced working week on full pay earlier this year and is now seeking to extend the experiment following glowing
JERUSALEM – A new report has accused some teachers and staff members of a controversial U.N. agency of praising the Hamas slaughter of Israelis, Americans and other foreign nationals on Oct. 7 in Israel. The jihadi terrorist organization Hamas murdered 1,400 people, including
A new study found that employees are more likely to be lazy when working near or with robots versus working on their own or with a group of people. Scientists at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany provided images of circuit
A new study found that spending too much time on your emails might not be worth the stress. Productivity platform Slack conducted a study of 8,000 U.S.- and U.K.-based small business employees — and the results were telling. Those employees drafted an average
Lecturers and other staff at some 40 U.K. universities staged a new round of strike action on Monday in a long-running dispute over pay and work conditions, disrupting college students as many turned up at campus for “freshers’ week,” or their first
A wider ban on China state employees from using Apple’s iPhones is not surprising and seeks to limit a Western company’s market access, the chairman of the U.S. House panel on China told Reuters on Thursday. “This is textbook Chinese Communist Party
The United Nations said Friday that five staff members who were kidnapped in Yemen 18 months ago have walked free. In a brief statement, Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said all “available information suggests that all