How to scrub yourself from the internet, the best that you can

Data brokers collect detailed information about who we are based on our things like our online activity, real world purchases and public records. Together, it’s enough to figure out your political leanings and health status, even if you’re pregnant. Friday’s news that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, and abortion could become illegal in at 13 states within a month, highlight concerns about ways these piles of information could be used. READ MORE

People Are Sharing 'Motivational' Things Their Jobs Tried That Totally Backfired

It's been a year since what we now know as The Great Resignation began, but with inflation on the rise, more employees are quitting their lacking jobs in search of new and better opportunities.

Reddit user u/CasperTFG_808 recently asked, "What is your 'The beatings will continue until Morale improves' work story?" Here are a few horror stories from some employees who deserve much better: READ MORE

The Open Secret of Google Search

A few weeks ago my house had a septic-tank emergency, which is as awful as it sounds. As unspeakable things began to burble up from my shower drain, I did what any smartphone-dependent person would: I frantically Googled something along the lines of poop coming from shower drain bad what to do. I was met with a slew of cookie-cutter websites, most of which appeared hastily generated and were choked with enough repetitive buzzwords as to be barely readable. Virtually everything I found was unhelpful, so we did the old-fashioned thing and called a professional. The emergency came and went, but I kept thinking about those middling search results—how they typified a zombified internet wasteland. READ MORE

How to Value Your Startup Today: Look Toward Tomorrow

Ella Fitzgerald famously quipped, “It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.”

The American crooner’s advice, it turns out, is appropriate not just for jazz singers but also for companies considering their valuations in the current economic climate.

Here’s how startups should be ascertaining their valuation in today’s market based on these timely words. READ MORE

Many C-suite executives want to quit over burnout: survey

More than two-thirds of executives in corporate America’s top-earning C-suites say they are mulling whether to quit their jobs due to burnout, according to the results of a Deloitte survey released Wednesday.

The survey found that 69% of C-suite executives said they were “seriously considering quitting for a job that better supports their well-being.” That was compared to 57% of regular employees who answered the same way. READ MORE

U.S. tech companies yank job offers, leaving college grads scrambling

One by one, over the last week of May, Twitter Inc rang up some members of its incoming class of new hires who had recently graduated from college and revoked the job offers in 15-minute calls, according to some of the recipients.

“It was traumatic,” Iris Guo, an incoming associate product manager living in Toronto, told Reuters. She received the bad news in a 10:45 p.m. video call that her position had been eliminated. Since then, she has raced to find new employment in order to secure her U.S. work visa. READ MORE

CEO reveals the generational data behind the Great Reshuffle—and the Gen Z trend should frighten employers

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky has issued a word of warning to employers grappling with an intensifying battle for talent: “Motivate and inspire Gen Z, or risk being left behind.”

The professional social-network chief was addressing a crowd of advertising and marketing professionals in a packed conference hall in Cannes, France, where he discussed what LinkedIn data revealed about a shifting generational attitude toward the workplace. READ MORE