Neowin News Feed for: Employee

Microsoft Japan boasts 40% productivity jump thanks to four-day workweek experiment

Steven Parker — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:34:01 +0000

This past summer, Microsoft Japan told employees to stay home on Fridays and for one month implemented a four-day workweek. The result was a jump in productivity and a rise in sales. Read more...

Download: How to Transform Employee Worst Practices Into IT Security Best Practices

News Staff — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 19:00:01 +0000

Get clear direction on how to improve your organization's security posture by “inoculating” employees who fall for social engineering attacks. Claim your free white paper while stocks last! Read more...

Sacked Google employee files lawsuit against company citing bias

Sharath Ravishankar — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:08:01 +0000

A lawsuit has been filed against Google by an employee it sacked recently, who alleges that the company exhibits bias against white and Asian men in favor of women and people of color. Read more...

Ex project manager suing Google for encouraging employees to spy on each other

Steven Parker — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:56:01 +0000

Google could find itself in hot water for its internal confidentiality policies that all of its employees are required to sign, as it encourages violations of Californian labor laws and spying. Read more...

Former Apple executive goes to jail; must pay company $4.4 million

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:48:01 +0000

One of Apple's ex-employees has been found guilty of selling confidential info to Apple's suppliers who would later send some cash the employee's way. He confessed and entered a plea agreement. Read more...

Riots break out at Foxconn production facility, dozens arrested

Steven Parker — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:39:27 +0000

Foxconn is back in the news, this time after hundreds of its employees not only helped a thief get away from two security guards calling out for help, but then rioted causing further damage. Read more...

Microsoft UK pays former female executive over £1 million

John Callaham — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:00:46 +0000

A new report claims that the UK division of Microsoft has paid a former female executive over £1 million after she was allegedly passed up for the managing director of Microsoft UK. Read more...

Facebook sacks employee for insider trading

Piers Hausjell — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:23:51 +0000

According to the New York Times, Facebook has fired one of its senior employees, Michael Brown, for insider trading after he purchased shares through a secondary market which violated the company's policies. At the time,... Read more...

Confessions of an Apple store employee

Ross Dundas — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:26:29 +0000

The corporate world of Apple is clouded in secrecy. But what is it like to actually work there? Popular Mechanics has an amazing article based on an interview with an apple store employee which gives... Read more...

Foxconn worker commits suicide after losing iPhone prototype

Sam Symons — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:12:58 +0000

Apple's a company well known for secrecy; you'll know so after having read the article we posted about it not too long ago. Though, can this obsession with secrecy actually be harmful to a human... Read more...

Former Microsoft employee responds to spying allegations

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:24:42 +0000

Microsoft recently accused Mike Mullor, a former employee for applying for his job in Microsoft under false pretenses and using his role at the company to gain access to confidential data. Mullor, Chairman and Founder... Read more...

iPod boss to step down, to be replaced with ex-IBM employee

Mike Brown — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:52:45 +0000

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the head of Apple's iPod division, Tony Fadell, is stepping down for personal reasons, according to close sources. Partly involved in the development of the iPhone, Fadell will... Read more...

Google employee details stolen in burglary

Tom Warren — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:55:58 +0000

Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 has been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies... Read more...

IBM Offers Reward For Lost Employee Data

Wed, 16 May 2007 18:41:42 +0000

IBM admitted that a contractor is believed to have lost multiple tapes containing identifying information on an undisclosed number of current and former IBM employees. The tapes hold employment data on them, including names, addresses,... Read more...

Employee Stock Options Still Key for Adobe

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:51:36 +0000

Despite a series of high-profile executive firings and resignations connected with the backdating of stock options that are shaking the US technology industry, the president of Adobe believes there will be little effect on the... Read more...

Sony Employee Fired for Comparing PS3 to Xbox 360

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:49:45 +0000

A former employee of Sony Online Entertainment has spoken out about how an online article criticising the PlayStation 3 ended up getting him fired from the company. In an interview with... Read more...

Save Jeeves! - A Former Employee Speaks Out

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:39:38 +0000

As posted on this and other sites, one of the most famous icons of the internet, the butler of Ask Jeeves, is about to get sacked. A fan and former employee speaks out --... Read more...

AOL employee sells off private user information

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:29:28 +0000

If was an AOL user, asides from being majorly angry, this guy would have just made my hit list! * U.S. investigators said on Wednesday they had arrested an America... Read more...

Microsoft employee sues Kazaa

Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:05:33 +0000

There's a new legal battle over Kazaa -- and this time it has nothing to do with swapping copyrighted music online. A native of Romania is filing suit and he claims that... Read more...

Ex-Apple employee says company a 'failure'

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:53:32 +0000

Michael Mace, once a marketing director at Apple, says that overall, Apple Computer has been a "massive failure." Instead of changing the world from "bad computer design and stifling corporate dictates," Apple today is "the... Read more...

Ex-Microsoft employee sentenced to 7 months for software piracy

Sat, 12 Oct 2002 04:42:38 +0000

If you have been chatting on IRC warez channels with someone called Warlock and you haven't seen him for the last 4 months, you might have been chatting with a former Microsoft employee who has... Read more...

Bill Gates; Microsoft boosts employee security

Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:07:53 +0000

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday the software giant was boosting security measures after six employees were exposed to a letter that had tested positive for anthrax. "Obviously, like all companies,... Read more...