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Companies switching to remote workforces will probably hire more staff overseas, outside the U.S. Source: Twitter, Apple, Google and Facebook employee work changing amid Covid This puts offshoring on steroids…
Last week, Singapore pulled the plug on its own Bluetooth-based smart phone contact tracing app: Covid-19 tracking apps were hailed as a way to help countries out of lockdown. Instead…
Told ‘ya: Testing of the small devices, which can be worn on the end of a lanyard or carried in a handbag, follows limited take-up of an earlier smartphone-based system…
Many corporations moved large offices out of suburbs to downtown locations viewed as appealing to young millennials: And with each of these moves, there were perks: Millennial talent was more…
The linked report is a very thorough analysis of what is being done in countries throughout the world in regards to cell phone data for Covid-19 tracking, and looks at…
First: India mandates workers use COVID-19 tracing app, France rolls out tracing tool and other tracking efforts | MobiHealthNews The WSJ also reports that China’s health tracking app will be…
I previously wrote about covid tracking apps and that what a “tracking app” is varies tremendously by country. Please read that first. There is another issue that crops up –…
Yes! This is a permanent elimination: The University of California board of regents, in a landmark move that could reshape the college admissions process across the country, voted Thursday to…
The biggest challenge for these apps going forward is adoption. The more phones that opt-in to the system, the more successfully it can detect how the virus spreads. Apple and…
The shift to remote work has led some companies to come up with quick digital solutions for tasks that have become hard to tackle during the coronavirus pandemic. Source: Emptying…