Leaders from technology companies landed in 18 of the 50 spots on Glassdoor’s annual list of the Highest Rated CEOs when the job search website revealed its Employees’ Choice Awards...
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Startup Spotlight: Polly.ai uses chatbot technology to assess employee happiness
Polly.ai is utilizing chatbots to help managers assess employee happiness.
The Seattle-based startup on Tuesday officially rolled out its chatbot product, which integrates with popular office collaboration app Slack...
Yelp employee who complained online about pay and got fired is ridiculed. But was she right?
A twenty-something tech worker who took to Medium to complain about her pay has become something of a cause celebre on the social networks.
A woman who goes by the online handle, Talia Jane, worked as a customer-service agent for Yelp, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews. She wrote an open letter to...
Zillow could spend more than $60M defending itself in a lawsuit centered around just one employee
The legal tensions are escalating between Zillow and News Corp.-owned Move Inc. And with good reason. There’s a lot of money at stake. In its fourth quarter earnings report this week, Zillow’s profits fell short of expectations, after the Seattle online real estate...
Court agrees, company can fire employee for Yahoo messaging after fair warning
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that companies are allowed to monitor employees' Internet activities, including online chats, provided they have been warned beforehand that the private use of company resources is forbidden. Because this decision has been handed down by the ECHR, the highest human rights court in Europe,...
TINYpulse raises $6M to help companies assess employee morale
TINYpulse has struck a chord with companies who want a better way to assess employee morale. The Seattle-based startup today announced a $ 6 million funding round to help fuel growth for its employee happiness platform. Arthur Ventures led the round, which included participation from Varenne...