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☆ Tech and business leaders will be looking for 3 things during the Harris-Trump debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

And that really, for tech, is going to determine what matters," he told Business Insider. "That was a clear effort to court business and tech," Tusk said. "That was really eye-opening, because that is not usually thought of as a business issue, it's thought of as a social issue," Snyder told Business Insider. But business and tech leaders will be looking at more than just policy on Tuesday night. AdvertisementLarsen believes that Harris may be able to provide the country with the reset that he and other business leaders are looking for.

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☆ There's a double-edged sword high performers face at work, and it's costing employers their talent
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-07 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

High-performing women have it the worst, the analysis found, with 38% of language used in their performance reviews containing exaggerations, clichés, and fixed-mindset labels. Poor feedback is bad for retentionGood-quality feedback is vital to keep top talent. Separate Textio research from 2023 found that workers who receive poor feedback are 63% more likely to leave their jobs within a year. The consequences of poor feedback can also be severe and wide-ranging, Murphy said. "Performance feedback should be delivered in real time whenever possible rather than waiting for a year-end review," Rosen said.

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☆ High performers at work get the worst feedback, and it's driving them to quit
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

High-performers and women aren't getting quality feedback in the workplace, and it could be driving them to quit. "As people are providing feedback for these high performers, they feel the need to provide more, but it is more often surface-level," Snyder tells CNBC Make It. Meanwhile, 30% of high performers leave their organization within their first year, according to Textio data. Women get more personality-based feedback and internalize negative reviewsThe Textio analysis also finds that there are gendered biases in what kind of feedback is delivered to men, women and nonbinary employees. Women and nonbinary employees were more likely to internalize negatively stereotyped feedback, such as being described as emotional, unlikable or difficult.

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☆ 'The scholar, the pragmatist, and the rainmaker:' How three Bloomberg Beta VCs bet on AI before it became a buzzword
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Bahat brings this same radical directness to Bloomberg Beta, the early-stage venture capital fund housed within the larger Bloomberg empire that he's run for the past decade. And Bloomberg Beta was making investments in generative AI as far back as 2015, before the term "generative AI" even existed. "It felt like we were just waiting for the right moment," said Cham, Bloomberg Beta partner and de-facto chief technologist, "where the rest of the world would see it." Bloomberg Beta made the decision early on to publish its entire operating manual on GitHub, including sensitive information about average check size and investment criteria. Kieran Snyder, the founder of generative AI startup Textio which Bloomberg Beta invested in in 2015, has a shorthand for describing the role of Beta's three partners.

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☆ 10 ways artificial intelligence is changing the workplace, from writing performance reviews to making the 4-day workweek possible
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Here are 10 ways AI tools such as ChatGPT have entered the workplace — and what may come out of it. Nick Patrick, the owner of the music-production company Primal Sounds Productions, told Insider he used ChatGPT to fine-tune legal contracts for clients. "You really got to find time to, like, learn this skill," Nigam previously told Insider. Companies are using AI to write their performance reviewsManagers may find writing performance reviews for their employees a tough task. He told Insider: "Any technology that increases productivity, ChatGPT included, makes a shorter workweek more feasible."

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☆ Activision fails to increase representation of women as it faces 2025 goal
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Video game publisher Activision Blizzard failed to increase its representation of women in the first quarter of 2022, according to a diversity report it released on Thursday. Executives have pledged to make women more pervasive inside the company after media reports described cases of harassment of women, prompting government investigations. Microsoft , an Activision Blizzard competitor and partner, began talks to acquire the game publisher after the reports pushed down the game publisher's stock price. In 2021 the company set a goal to reach 35% by 2025. "We'll continue to measure the impact of these changes, as we're confident this work will contribute to our goal of becoming the most welcoming and inclusive company in the industry," Hines wrote.

☆ Activision increased representation of women and non-binary people by 2 percentage points as it faces 2025 goal
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Video game publisher Activision Blizzard increased representation of women and non-binary people by 2 percentage points from November 2021 to December 2022, according to data shared with CNBC. The company said women and non-binary employees represented 24.3% of its workforce in November 2021 but that figure has increased to 26.3% as of the end of 2022. Executives have pledged to make women more pervasive inside the company after media reports described cases of harassment of women, prompting government investigations. Microsoft , an Activision Blizzard competitor and partner, began talks to acquire the game publisher after the reports pushed down the game publisher's stock price. In 2021 the company set a goal to reach 35% for full-time non-binary and women workers by 2025.

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