Sentences with phrase «of tech employees»

The proposed tax could prevent wide swaths of tech employees from accepting stock options and RSUs.

Globally, 17 % of its tech employees are women, an increase of one percentage point over the previous year.

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He tells the story of an employee who, having summoned the tech to fix a balky printer, demanded the IT guy fix his glasses, too.

Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

Whichever way voters go as polls close in the California's Democratic primary, some employees of tech companies in the Bay Area have already cast their votes with their dollars, reports The Hill.

This is the kind of thing that makes tech managers everywhere reach for the Aspirin; employees taking IT matters into their own hands is a perennial headache, and I sympathize with that.

Widely publicized accusations from an Uber employee have shined an even brighter spotlight on the sexism and lack of diversity in the tech world.

Apple is following the likes of Amazon with its new health care initiative for the tech giant's employees and their families.

«With the emergence of artificial intelligence and advancements in HR tech, organizations will have the ability to not just collect employee experience insights through explicit channels, they'll also be able to mine employee data that reveals patterns of behavior, emotion, productivity, etc,» Barker, Qualtrics» employee - experience manager, wrote to me.

Many of those companies have promised to do better, but change is slow, as shown in the diversity reports that a number of tech firms now regularly publish that detail the demographic makeup of their employees.

Retention of diverse employees is also a focus for Saujani, who noted that while tech companies like SpaceX now have more gender balance among interns and young hires, they do a poor job maintaining it: 30 - 40 % of women leave quickly.

The 2015 Liberal election platform had a proposal to limit the benefits of the 50 % employee stock option deduction by placing a cap of $ 100,000 on annual eligible stock option gains but this was dropped after intense lobbying by startups in the tech and resource industry who rely heavily on non-cash compensation such as stock options to attract much needed, specialized talent to their firms.

As the business landscape is changing more and more rapidly — particularly due to the impact of new tech on customers expectations and staff behavior — being responsive requires a certain level of flexibility and vision from your employees.

For all the campus's high - tech trappings, most of its toilets are essentially just holes in the floor, and each bathroom includes a bucket where employees dump their tea leaves.

Male employees make up 79 percent of tech jobs, 81 percent of engineering, and 84 percent of leadership positions.

While Slack's work force — around 600 employees — is tiny next to the likes of Google and Facebook, the company is growing so rapidly that its hiring over the next year or two could make it one of the first major tech companies to reach, or approach, gender and ethnic parity.

Most institutions frown on this sort of thing because they think «bring your own tech» is inherently insecure — that employees will lose their gadget loaded with sensitive company data — yet Kundra believes the reverse is true.

The success of Dublin's tech community comes down to the fact that everyone and everything — companies, employees, residential buildings — are in the same area, making even a trip to the grocery store a networking opportunity.

• In May, Susan Fowler advocated that tech companies end forced arbitration, end the practice of buying their employees» silence with severance packages and non-disparagement agreements, end unnecessarily strict confidentiality agreements, institute training and enforce zero - tolerance policies:

In industries like tech, they are offered lower starting salaries than their male counterparts for the same job at the same company 63 percent of the time, and, according to some employees, still experience discrimination even at companies like Google.

The Silicon Valley worker benefits and perks — the free, fresh produce and transcendental meditation pods — have become symbols of the riches created in the tech sector and how good it has been to workers, but the hype belies the truth that many of the employees operating within big tech companies are working on second - class contract terms.

Almost half of his 110 employees have stayed in the company for five years or more, which is hard to achieve in a sector that sees tempting new tech jobs multiply by the minute.

More pejoratively: The term «tech bro» also refers to a tech company employee who acts entitled, lacks self - awareness and is tone deaf about sensitive issues such as the realities of urban poverty.

Microsoft makes money on a huge assortment of tech products, and employees can — and do — move from team to team.

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

While President Obama has supported a few proposals that benefit high - growth, high - tech entrepreneurs (like the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, most of his policies have been hostile to the interests of Main Street business owners, particularly those running labor - intensive businesses with low - wage employees.

After graduating from the Atlanta Tech Village, we were lucky to sublease square feet of office space for our rapidly growing team that's now at 110 employees!

Microsoft employees on Sunday urged each other on Twitter to take advantage of a reported offer by the tech giant to 100 percent match employee donations to the ACLU.

The firm is already helping a variety of major cancer centers with its tech; the new worker benefit program will allow employees to consult with their doctors by giving them their medical history and getting their specific cancers genetically sequenced.

All of our employees are are techs that Ty had worked with throughout the years.

Custom workflows and mobile support help large enterprises bring their internal tech stacks up to speed, since Sapho's friendly interface satisfies the usability expectations of modern employees.

Facebook knows a thing or two about millennials — According to a recent study by Payscale, the median age at the tech company is 28, meaning the vast majority of its employees fall squarely within the generation's age bracket.

Facebook joins a long list of big - name global tech firms to significantly beef up their parental leave offerings for full - time employees in recent months, including Netflix.

The ranking compares the seven hottest startup scenes in the U.S. across measures that matter most to new entrepreneurs: median tech - employee earnings, maximum personal income tax, property tax, the cost of housing and the cost of office space.

With an established tech identity and access to highly - skilled employees coming out of local universities, Austin would be a natural choice for Amazon HQ2.

And it's not just tech giants — companies of all stripes have become more flexible, actively seeking to keep employees happy and engaged, whether through work - life balance initiatives or management strategies that encourage employee feedback, input and advancement.

Like many tech giants, a large proportion of its employees are immigrants.

Top executives of tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Twitter and the like have put out statements extending support to YouTube employees

Even high - paid startup and tech employees are known to feel the sting of rising housing costs.

That's exactly the situation with a number of employees at Epicenter, a Swedish tech startup.

Employees say: «Having worked at a handful of NYC - based tech companies, many play favorites, lack diversity and don't hesitate to ask you to all but sell your soul to the company.

Thurston, a onetime professional cyclist who maintained MapMyFitness's position as a top fitness app from the iPhone's earliest days, tells the story in his new office in downtown Austin, in a brand - new building where giant images of Under Armour athletes adorn the walls (amid, of course, motivational mantras) and several hundred new engineers and other tech employees work.

Additionally, a majority of employees say being a micromanager is the worst trait a boss can have, according to a recent Comparably survey of over 2,000 employees at tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Uber.

«The tech preppers do not necessarily think a collapse is likely,» Yishan Wong, Reddit's former CEO and one of Facebook's first employees, told The New Yorker.

A tech company based in Manchester called BitSol Solutions offers its employees a full week of paid leave if they get a new pet.

So you can't help but wonder just how much does the average big tech employee make and how much of a gap is it versus the top bananas?

Non-compete agreements, which many tech companies make new employees sign as a condition of employment, are controversial.

In a statement, furnished to tech news site Geekwire, which broke the news of the lawsuit last week, Amazon said it works to resolve such cases in a way that protects the company and enables employees to take new jobs.

A year ago, the company revealed its plan for establishing an Indianapolis tech center with 2,000 employees by the end of 2021, the first among its four planned hubs in the U.S., with the others in North Carolina, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Even Silicon Valley tech companies, which consistently rank at the top of diversity rankings for their treatment of LGBT employees, have their own problems with difference — namely that they tend to be overwhelmingly white and male.