Tesla CEO Elon Musk must approve all hires, according to an email sent to recruiters. The leaked email also suggests more rigorous requirements for hiring have been adopted.

A survey finds 80% of hiring managers say soft skills, such as the ability to collaborate with a team, think critically and attend to details, are vital to getting hired, writes Nadine El-Bawab. A candidate can exhibit some of these skills during an interview by how they treat support staff, speak of past colleagues and show up on time.

A group of US senators wrote to Transportation Security Administration chief David Pekoske to urge the agency to issue back pay to workers who had not yet been fully compensated for working during the partial federal government shutdown. "Your first responsibility must be to identify all TSA employees who are owed back pay and to ensure they are all made whole by the next scheduled pay day -- the third since the end of the shutdown -- on March 8, 2019," the senators wrote in their March 7 letter.

"Teamwork does not happen by accident," says Simon Mac Rory, founder of the ODD Company, but he's yet to see an organization that has a coherent strategy for creating effective teams. "We are not all team experts, we do not operate intuitively as a team, and if organizations want high performing teams, they need to put in the effort and stop dreaming," he says.

The value of pi is 3.14 plus 22 trillion digits, or it was until Google employee Emma Haruka Iwao found an additional 9 trillion digits. "Modern maths, physics, engineering and technology could not function without pi," says Matt Parker, a mathematician.