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☆ Jim and Pam Knew How to Survive a Soul-Crushing Office
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Alexandra Molotkow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Office crushes, in all their mercurial glory and pain, continue to shape our working lives in deeply meaningful ways. But through all these changing norms, workplace crushes remain remarkably common. Jim, after all, doesn't even ask Pam on a date until the season-three finale of "The Office." That most workplace crushes never lead to consummated relationships doesn't make them any less powerful. An admitted serial crusher, she still gets work crushes — last year she counted "a solid eight."

Persons: Derek, Brendan, Michael Rosenfeld, Manny, Sean Horan, we're, she'd, Karis, Stefan, Darcy, —, Helen Fisher, Lakshmi Rengarajan, Rengarajan, smolder, Jim, Pam, I've, it's, I'd, Slack, Mikel Jaso, didn't, couldn't, weirdly, they'd, Johnny C, Taylor Jr, MeToo, Ayear, Tiana Reid, texted Derek, Alexandra Molotkow Organizations: Society for Human Resource Management, Stanford, Fairfield University, Match.com, BI Karis, Society for Human, York University Locations: New York City, Singapore, Brendan's, New York, Chicago, Toronto

☆ Russian election hopeful wants to end Ukraine war
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsRussian election hopeful wants to end Ukraine warPostedYekaterina Duntsova, who wants to run for president, told Reuters the Kremlin should end the conflict in Ukraine, free political prisoners and undertake major reform to halt the slide towards a new era of "barbed wire" division between Russia and the West. Sean Hogan has more.

Persons: Duntsova, Sean Hogan Organizations: Reuters Locations: Ukraine, Russia

☆ Some fund managers see merit in China's deeply discounted stocks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Summer Zhen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

U.S. asset manager Fidelity International is highlighting China's looser monetary policy and the government's recent 1 trillion yuan ($137.10 billion) borrowing-and-spending sovereign bond plan as a tailwind for the country's stock markets. London-based £3 billion fund manager Somerset Capital Management likewise finds China exciting. The stock market has yet to recover, but has stabilised. Morgan Stanley estimates long-only foreign investors now have their deepest underweight positions in China and Hong Kong equities in years. Chinese stocks could see a short-term sentiment pick-up given foreign funds have such light positions in the market, said Redmond Wong, Greater China market strategist at Saxo Markets.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, ”, Marty Dropkin, Mark Williams, Morgan Stanley, Patrick Ghali, Sean Ho, Vivek Tanneeru, Redmond Wong, Summer Zhen, Xie Yu, Vidya Ranganathan, Kim Coghill Organizations: REUTERS, Fidelity, Asia Pacific, Fidelity International . London, Somerset Capital Management, Nasdaq, Japan’s Nikkei, Sussex Partners, Hong, China, Hang Seng Tech, Monetary Fund, Cambridge Associates, Capital, “, Triata, Matthews Asia, Saxo Markets, Thomson Locations: HONG KONG, China, U.S, Asia, Hong Kong, London, Boston, San Francisco, Greater China

☆ Why Poland's election swing is not so clear cut
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsWhy Poland's election swing is not so clear cutPostedPolish voters have turned out in record numbers and seem to have ousted the country’s ruling nationalist party. It opens the way for opposition parties to take control of Warsaw and repair Poland's relationship with the European Union. But those who voted for change could have to wait until next year for it to happen. Sean Hogan explains.

Persons: Sean Hogan Organizations: European Union Locations: Warsaw

☆ Will Ukraine support suffer under Fico's Slovakia?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsWill Ukraine support suffer under Fico's Slovakia? PostedRobert Fico's election win in Slovakia after he had campaigned to end military aid to Ukraine shows creeping discontent in Central Europe over the war with Russia, but will he pull the pin on supporting the conflict? Sean Hogan explains.

Persons: Robert Fico's, Sean Hogan Organizations: Will, Fico's Locations: Will Ukraine, Fico's Slovakia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Central Europe, Russia

☆ Zoom says it won't use your calls to train AI 'without your consent' after its terms of service sparked backlash and prompted people to talk about ditching the service
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Sarah Jackson | Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Zoom angered users after its terms of service suggested it could use calls to train AI. Zoom also says it won't use the content of calls to train its AI models "without your consent." On August 6, the tech news blog Stack Diary pointed out the section of Zoom's terms of service. But as Stack Diary points out, the clarification may not fully protect your calls, based on the specific language in Zoom's terms of service. The clarifications in Zoom's terms of service come as members of the public have expressed outrage over their data being used to train AI.

Persons: Gabriella Coleman, Brianna Wu, Smita Hashim, Aparna Bawa, Sean Hogle, — includingSuzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, — Organizations: Harvard, Hacker, Hacker News

(Reuters) - A group of at least eight partners has left law firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, including national labor and employment chair John Barber, to start a new firm. Barber and seven other labor and employment lawyers based in California have left Lewis Brisbois, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday. Lewis Brisbois co-chairman Bob Smith said in the Sunday statement the firm thanks the lawyers and wishes them well. Lewis Brisbois in February hired a new cybersecurity group, poaching six attorneys from Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker including co-chair Robert Walker. Read more:44-member Lewis Brisbois cybersecurity team jumps to Constangy firmLaw firm Lewis Brisbois hires cybersecurity co-chair after group departureOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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