Apple, Facebook and Google have individually built or plan to build huge structures to house their facilities and to symbolize global power. Rowan Moore examines them, focusing on Apple's $5 billion campus of 2.8 million square feet that accommodates 12,000 employees in a single building.
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Company leaders are increasingly mentioning artificial intelligence during earnings calls, possibly indicating AI technology will make waves across the services sector. Demand for AI is likely to increase as the US nears full employment.
Ericsson hosts an event annually on the streets of Stockholm to recruit interns and to pique interest in the company and a career in science, technology, engineering and math. At this year's event, 90 interns passed out lists of available positions to interested pedestrians, talked with people at metro stations and completed fun challenges to demonstrate the company's positive culture, writes Ericsson's Anders Oesterlund.
Part-time employees who are offered voluntary benefits through their work could see their financial security improve, according to a study by Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Such benefits can be cheaper as part of a group plan and can assist part-time employees in paying out-of-pocket expenses, said Peter Marcia of YouDecide.
To help your company change for the better, diagnose your current culture and where you'd like to be, and emphasize the importance of company leaders' participation, writes Andi Simon, a corporate anthropologist. "Once you begin to realize that more of the same is not going to build better results, you need a process to change how people think about their work life and habits," Simon writes.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.