Google employees will hold Twitter campaign to end forced arbitration | Mashable

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai might just want to check his Twitter tomorrow.

A group called Googlers for Ending Forced Arbitration will hold a tweetstorm on Tuesday, Jan. 15 to educate the public about forced arbitration agreements and advocate for their removal from the tech industry. The group, which says it’s run by organizers of the Google Walkouts and dozens of other employees, announced the plan in a Medium blog post to inform people about “how forced arbitration denies 60 million Americans access to their civil rights.”

YouTube reveals what curse words will get your video demonetized | Mashable

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Hell yeah. YouTube is finally letting creators know what curse words they can use without taking a financial hit.

In a video uploaded to its Creator Insider channel, YouTube has finally defined what exactly constitutes profanity on the platform. YouTube creators have often struggled with censoring their own content over fear that their videos will be demonetized, thus affecting their earning potential.

Why retailers are fleeing Fifth Avenue | CNN

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Midtown Manhattan has been one of the most coveted spots in the world for fashion houses. Now, it’s emptying out.

Calvin Klein announced Thursday that it would close its Madison Avenue store in the spring. It joins an exodus that includes Ralph Lauren (RL), Lord & Taylor and Henri Bendel. Gap (GPS) also said over the holidays that it was on its way out, and Versace is reportedly looking to leave Fifth Avenue, too.

The departures show how the role of the flagship fashion store has changed. In many cases, high rent in Midtown Manhattan has made a physical store there untenable. And changes in consumer behavior have forced many of these brands to rethink their strategies.

Here’s How Many People Have Caught the Flu So Far This Season (Hint: It’s a Lot) | Live Science

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We’re in the midst of flu season, and millions of people have caught the virus already.

Influenza has sickened an estimated 6 million to 7 million Americans since October, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Although health officials closely track the flu every year, this is the first time the CDC has provided estimates on the number of flu illnesses in the midst of flu season, the agency said in a statement released today (Jan. 11). Typically, the CDC waits until the end of flu season before calculating the estimates.

Common Job-Hopping Myths | Business News Daily

January 11, 2019January 10, 2019 ~ knjohn ~ 1 Comment

Millennials get a bad reputation for everything they do. They get blamed for killing the mayonnaise industry, the diamond industry and even the divorce rate. Myths and stereotypes follow every generation, and none of them are immune from job-hopping myths.

Industry experts told Business News Daily that these “facts” about job-hopping aren’t at all what they seem. Here are few common ones and how to combat them.

9 Tips on Multitasking Management That Will Improve Your Productivity | Life Hack

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When you’re hungry to grow, expand and drink deeply of life, you want to be as productive as possible. And with so many choices of how to drink deeply of life, we can add a lot to our plate. Enter multitasking management that will improve your productivity.

It starts, innocently enough, with inspired action and a will to accomplish, build and fulfill what’s in our heart or mind to create. But if we’re not careful, it quickly turns into being buried in work and delayed outcomes rather than the productivity we thought we were creating.

Seven Time Management Hacks for Hippies | marketingforhippies.com

January 10, 2019January 9, 2019 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

A question I often get is, “What’s Tad short for?”

But another question I get almost as often is, “How do you do so much?”

The most honest answer I can give is, “Other things suffer.” And that’s true in just about every way we could mean it.

But, what’s also true is that I have figured out a few things about managing my time and organizing those to do lists. Because, if you’re not organized, it’s easier to just never, ever get to those important projects of yours.

U.S. cell carriers are probably still selling your real-time phone location | Fast Company

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Facebook and Google grab headlines for their roles in the massively profitable “personal data economy.” You know, the business of buying and selling your personal browsing habits to advertisers, pollsters, and other deep-pocketed third parties.

But cell phone companies deserve some attention, too.

The 2019 ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse Does Affect Earth, But Not Like You’ve Heard | Forbes

January 9, 2019January 8, 2019 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

In less than two weeks, the moon will turn blood red for a short period and things may seem a little weird, but they couldn’t be more normal. After all, we’ve seen this twice in just the last twelve months.

And yet there’s long been anxiety over total lunar eclipses, also referred to as ‘blood moons’ for the reddish hue that the shadow of the Earth casts on the full moon during the not-really-that-rare event (it happens about every one to three years on average). Often thought of as a bad omen by various prognosticators of assorted religious, conspiratorial and otherwise paranoid stripes, it’s sometimes claimed that a lunar eclipse can “trigger” natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Should You Move From Your Home Office into a Coworking Space? | AllBusiness.com

January 9, 2019January 8, 2019 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

One of the biggest benefits of being in business today is the technology at our disposal. New platforms and tools have made it easier to reach people, and you can see, talk, and engage with coworkers across geographic barriers better than ever before. It’s this lack of boundary restrictions that has opened the door to owning and working in a geographically dispersed business.

One way for people who work in different locations than their peers to get out of the home office and operate more efficiently is to work in a coworking space. If you’ve ever considered working in a shared office space, here are a few pros and cons to consider before moving in.