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☆ Workday Has Become the Most-Hated Workplace, Business Software
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Matt Alston | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Every HR professional and hiring manager I spoke with — whose lives are supposedly made easier by Workday — described Workday with a sense of cosmic exasperation. "Workday does not have oversight or control of our customers' job application processes.") If candidates hate Workday, if employees hate Workday, if HR people and managers processing and assessing those candidates and employees through Workday hate Workday — if Workday is the most annoying part of so many workers' workdays — how is Workday everywhere? (Workday's "customers choose the frequency at which they conduct reviews, not Workday," said the spokesperson.) "HR software sucking" is a big tent.

Persons: you'd, Workday's, —, David Duffield, Teladoc, UKG, Cory Doctorow, It's, He'd, Matt Alston's, Stone Organizations: Fortune, Netflix, Goodwill, Spotify, Washington Post, Ohio State University, FedEx, Nintendo, Honda, LinkedIn, IBM, Oracle, Bank of America, Automation, Rippling, Systems, Facebook, Wired Locations: San Francisco, Amazon's, It's, Bonusly, Maine

☆ Billionaire golf fans' favorite tournament, the Masters, kicks off this week in Augusta
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Madeline Berg | Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The Masters Tournament begins this week at Augusta National Golf Club. That's thanks to the Masters Tournament, the first in an annual run of major professional golf championships and a favorite of the superrich. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice became one of the first women to join Augusta National in 2012. But if you're not a member, you're not invited by a member, you're not getting on Augusta National." The names of Augusta National members are kept confidential, though their green jackets are a tell.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, —, Dirk Ziff, Stanley Druckenmiller —, Barnabas Carrega, Carrega, State Condoleezza Rice, Timothy A, Clary, weren't, Darla Dee Moore, Richard Rainwater, Augusta National's, Billy Casper, Horton Smith, Jamie Squire, Phil Knight —, Robert Rowling, Herbert Allen Jr, David Duffield, Ernest Garcia, Greg Mondre, Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, that's Organizations: Augusta National Golf, Private, Service, Michelin, Golf, Bloomberg, State, Augusta National, Getty, Augusta, Augusta Regional Airport, Nike, reselling, Ticketmaster Locations: Augusta , Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States, Carvana

☆ A new startup from 2 Twitch alums is trying to get Gen Z to watch TV
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Entertainment companies face a generation problem, with Gen Z shunning TV shows and movies over social video and livestreams. A new startup is pitching a solution by bringing TV to Gen Z where and how they already watch, rather than trying to train them in a new habit. The company, Gaggl TV, licenses TV shows and distributes them to creators to watch with their followers on social platforms. In a deal with Fremantle, Gaggl got the rights to old TV shows like '70s-era "The Price is Right: The Barker Era" and is distributing them to five Twitch streamers. "TV companies just put stuff on Twitch and don't realize it's the creators people are coming to see," Harris said.

Persons: Gen, Gaggl, Khleo Thomas, Peter Park, Bridget Case, Richard Karn, Megan Fraher, Fraher, Adam Harris, James Duffield, Greg Miall, Harris, Gen Z's, Twitch, Bob Ross, he's Organizations: Business, Fremantle, Amazon, Greece's, Paramount, Gaggl Locations: Fremantle, livestreaming

The National Sleep Foundation's annual Sleep Awareness Week, which runs March 10 to March 16 this year, brings with it a wealth of sales on everything from mattresses to fun sleep accessories. Below, we've added links to some of today's best sales and compiled 14 of the best sleep-related products currently on sale. From our best overall mattress recommendation to a few minor accessories, there's something for everyone this Sleep Awareness Week. Leesa Sapira Hybrid Mattress (Queen) $1,599.00 $1,999.00 Save 20% The Leesa Sapira Hybrid Mattress has great edge support and motion isolation. Shop at LeesaBusiness Insider's best overall mattress of 2024 is now on sale for 20% off.

Persons: you've, you'll, Pillow, VAVA, Duffield, Luna, Anker, that's Organizations: Business, King, Cal, Bluetooth, Casper Locations: Brooklinen

☆ Workday names Sequoia's Carl Eschenbach as co-CEO, alongside Aneel Bhusri
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Workday said on Tuesday that co-CEO Chano Fernandez is leaving the company and being replaced by Sequoia Capital's Carl Eschenbach, a former VMware executive and member of Workday's board. Eschenbach will serve alongside Aneel Bhusri, who co-founded the company in 2005. Bhusri became a co-CEO again in 2020 with the appointment of Fernandez, a former SAP executive who joined Workday in 2014. Before Workday, Bhusri held leadership roles at PeopleSoft, which Oracle acquired in 2005 for $11.1 billion. WATCH: Workday co-CEO on the firm's quarterly results and why its finance applications saw strength

☆ Twitter's clumsy handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story spurred enough bipartisan criticism to risk the existence of the internet as we know it
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Twitter's decision to throttle stories about Hunter Biden's laptop prompted bipartisan criticism. Some lawmakers have since called to repeal Section 230, a law "that created the internet." The criticism has since intensified a movement to repeal Section 230, which could change the Internet forever. Much of Taibbi's thread focused on Twitter's handling of the New York Post's October 2020 story about Hunter Biden's laptop, which the Post reported was left in a Delaware repair shop. Representatives for Khanna did not answer questions about the congressman's current position on whether or not to repeal Section 230.

☆ Prime Medicine dipped 10% in its public debut. We dug through the biotech's 283-page filing to find 5 key takeaways about the company's plan to commercialize gene editing.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Andrew Dunn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The gene-editing biotech Prime Medicine went public on Thursday. From a key patent to an uncertain timeline, here are five takeaways from Prime's filing. Its goal is to advance prime editing, a twist on CRISPR gene editing that could allow for a wider range of edits to DNA. Prime editing, another version of next-generation gene editing, works like a word processor, "searching for the correct location and replacing or repairing a wide variety of target DNA," the filing said. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesDavid Liu, a Harvard gene-editing scientist who co-invented base editing and prime editing, is Prime's largest shareholder.

☆ Prime Medicine is gearing up for a $200 million IPO. We dug through the biotech's 282-page filing to find 5 key takeaways about the company's plan to commercialize gene editing.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Andrew Dunn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

From an uncertain timeline to the clinic to a key patent, here are 5 takeaways from Prime's filing. The company's goal is to advance prime editing, a twist on CRISPR gene editing that could allow for a wider range of edits to DNA. Prime editing is another version of next-generation gene editing. Prime's filing comes in a difficult market for biotechs, but particularly for companies that have yet to start human testing. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesDavid Liu, a Harvard gene-editing scientist who co-invented base editing and prime editing, is currently Prime's largest shareholder.

☆ Найден эффективный способ защиты от ночных укусов комаров
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-25 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

И специалисты задумались: сможет ли "искусственное солнце" снизить количество ночных укусов комаров? Команда учёных под руководством профессора Джайлза Даффилда (Giles Duffield) изучила комаров Anopheles gambiae, являющиеся основным переносчиком малярии в Африке. Специалисты провели эксперимент, изучая в лабораторных условиях поведение комаров. В течение 12 часов ночи исследователи с интервалом в два часа проверяли склонность комаров кусать руки волонтёров. Специалисты также провели и другой эксперимент, во время которого в помещении с комарами свет включался каждые два часа.

Persons: Giles Duffield, Anopheles gambiae, Джайлз Даффилд ( ) Locations: НотрДам, Африка

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