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| | At this point, hearing that a company is going WFH forever isn't too surprising. That is, unless you're talking about a huge Wall Street firm.
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Apollo Global Management will experiment with letting folks work remotely two times per week. They'll begin the experiment at some point this year, depending on when COVID-19 vaccines become widely available.
So now we've got tech companies and investment firms thinking alike, at least in terms of remote work. Weird, right? What do you make of all the WFH shifts we've seen? Could you go back to a fully in-office work environment? Or will you only consider roles that offer at least partial WFH flexibility? Let me know in this SaaSOps Community thread. |
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| | | Apollo to Test Partial Remote Work as Vaccinations Increase | | Wall Street Journal | Apollo Global Management Inc. will test giving employees the option of working remotely two days a week through the end of the year, according to a person familiar with the matter. Firms across Wall Street have been struggling with how -- and when -- to get employees back at their desks. Many are treading lightly or delaying the effort, given looming virus variants and the difficulties in obtaining vaccines. | | How BetterCloud Discover Helps IT Know the SaaS Environment | | BetterCloud Monitor | Like GIFs? We made you a few of 'em to showcase how our Discover functionality helps you get control of your entire SaaS environment. Check them out in this recent blog post. | | Dropbox Declares Its Password Manager Will Be Free To Use | | The Next Web | Dropbox is making its password manager feature available to everyone starting in April. The cloud storage service launched this feature last year for its paying customers. With this new announcement, anyone with a Dropbox account could use it. However, there are few caveats to this service: you can only store 50 passwords and sync up to three devices to access your credentials from anywhere. | | Microsoft’s Latest Cloud Authentication Outage: What Went Wrong | | ZDNet | Microsoft's preliminary analysis of the incident, published March 16, indicated that "an error occurred in the rotation of keys used to support Azure AD's use of OpenID, and other, Identity standard protocols for cryptographic signing operations," according to the findings published to its Azure Status History page. |
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| | | PSA: If Google Chrome Is Freezing When Using Text Fields, Here’s a Fix | | Neowin | Once in a while, you might find Google misbehaving when inputting text into text fields. You may find that when typing something and maybe accidentally choosing a suggested autofill, you can no longer change the text in the text field. Google has not shared an official fix for this particular problem, but here are a few options. | | How to Choose When Windows 10 Turns off Your Screen | | How-To Geek | Leaving your computer screen on for extended periods of time wastes power—and, on a laptop, battery life. Thankfully, Windows 10 makes it super easy to decide how long the screen should stay on. Here's how. |
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| | | Login Related Audit Events Are Now Located in a Single Location in the Admin Console | | Google Workspace Updates | Google has consolidated all login related audit events to a single location within the Workspace Admin Console under Reports > Audit Log > Login. You can also use the Reports API to view information on login events. | | Snooze Google Calendar Desktop Notifications | | Google Workspace Updates | You can now snooze Google Calendar desktop notifications directly from the notification itself. A top user request, this should make it less likely that you miss meetings or show up late. By default, snoozed notifications will reappear one minute before the scheduled meeting. |
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