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In the past few days, social media platforms have taken unprecedented action. Twitter permanently suspended Mr. Trump’s account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”  Parler — a social media app that’s become popular among conservatives and far-right extremists — was dropped from Apple’s App Store

Yesterday, what had typically been a routine process in presidential transitions descended into one of the darkest days for American democracy. Congress’s procedure to certify the election results in favor of Joe Biden was halted when a mob of President Trump’s supporters infiltrated the U.S. Capitol building.

Chewy Shaw, an engineer at Google in the San Francisco Bay Area said that Google’s union was a necessary tool to sustain pressure on management so that workers could force changes on workplace issues. A Microsoft professional asked the Blind network, “Google workers announce plans to unionize. Should other

The many changes imposed by the pandemic are acting as another challenge to the 9-to-5 workday model, which was already under threat before the pandemic. Remote working, relatively uncommon before the pandemic, has gone mainstream. Before covid-19 roughly 5% of Americans working from home. By May the

Nine months into pandemic-induced telework, employees’ priorities are changing. Company culture seems to matter as much — if not more — than it used to.  In fact, on Blind,  the largest anonymous professional community with 4.1M users from big tech, unicorns, and startups, we learned that 45% of professionals say

A software engineer salary can vary widely depending on which employer he or she works for, experience level and location. In 2019, there were 26.4 million software developers worldwide, according to an EDC study. It was projected to grow to 27.7 million in 2023 28.7 million in

Earlier this year interest arose about the company perks that have long been a part of Silicon Valley tech culture and how it would translate to remote work, once it was clear employees weren’t going back to the office this year.  “Can employees expense lunch?”  “What about gym memberships?