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Week in Review – Popular Content
How an Instagram Post Led to an N.F.L. Cheerleader’s Discrimination Case (New York Times)
Bailey Davis, a former New Orleans Saints cheerleader, was fired for violating a social media policy that does not apply to the team’s male players. Davis has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Tags: Discrimination, EEOC
The Russian Robot That’s Hiring Humans (Bloomberg)
Robot Vera can cut the time and cost of recruiting by a third, its creators say. Now they’re teaching it to recognize anger, pleasure, and disappointment.
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Tags: AI, Recruiting
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“The Workplace Is Killing People and Nobody Cares” (Stanford Business School)
A new book examines the massive health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees.
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Tags: Organizational Behavior, Health Care
PWC’s millennial employees led a rebellion—and their demands are being met (LinkedIn)
By 2013 millennials, who represented two-thirds of the company’s workforce, were no longer so willing to shelve their personal lives indefinitely for the possibility of a lucrative partnership years down the road.
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Tags: Millennials, Work-life Balance
Cisco commits $50 million to end homelessness in Silicon Valley (TechCrunch)
Homelessness in Santa Clara County has gotten worse, with the overall homeless population increasing 13 percent to 7,394 in 2017 over the course of two years. Santa Clara also has the third highest rate of chronic homelessness in the entire country.
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Tags: Business News
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