This startup aims to improve workplace conversations with ’empathy-as-a-service’ software

This startup aims to improve workplace conversations with ’empathy-as-a-service’ software

(Big picture) Most of us have had the experience of sending a text message or email that sounded insensitive or angry when we did not intend to do so. Unfortunately, the lack of social cues in such messages makes it much easier to be misinterpreted. Depending on the communication, this can lead to misunderstandings, hurt … Read more

Sundar Pichai lays out Google’s new ‘hybrid’ workplace plan

Igor Bonifacic

After some Google employees volunteered to return to the company’s offices last month, CEO Sundar Pichai says the tech giant will be introducing a new hybrid work week. In an extension of a pilot project that started in December, most employees will be out of the office for about three days and the other two … Read more

DEI tech reimagines workplace equity and attracts investors amid mounting calls for change

DEI tech reimagines workplace equity and attracts investors amid mounting calls for change

Thousands of people take part in a Black Lives Matter protest march in Seattle in June. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) When Kim Vu joined fintech startup Remitly two years ago as the director of diversity and inclusion, she spent hours doing numbers manually and gaining insights into the teams that are spread across eight … Read more