employees

Amazon Offers Employees $10K To Start Delivery Businesses

Amazon is enticing its own employees to start package delivery businesses, announcing Monday (May 13) a new incentive that will provide them...

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Ridesharing

NY Uber Drivers To Strike Ahead Of IPO

Shortly ahead of Uber’s initial public offering, drivers of the company in New York plan on going on strike. According to a...

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Gig Economy

Labor Department Ruling Classifies Gig Workers As Contractors

Gig economy companies Uber and Lyft just got support from the Labor Department, which ruled a company’s workers who clean homes don’t...

Zillow To Offer Mortgages For Homebuyers

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Legal

Zillow Sues Competitor Compass Over IP Theft

Zillow has filed two lawsuits against Compass, accusing its rival of stealing Seattle-based Zillow’s intellectual property, as well as hiring employees who violated...

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Matchmakers

Can Platforms And Payments Solve Restaurants’ 73 Percent Turnover Problem?

Good waiters are hard to find. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they are even harder to keep, as the restaurant worker...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

British Airways Employees Say Call Center Data Not Secure

Current and former staff at British Airways, the U.K. airliner, told The Financial Times this weekend that data has been handled insecurely...

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NCR Expands Hospitality Reach With BEC Buy

NCR announced late last week the acquisition of BEC, a provider of hospitality point-of-sale (POS) technology based in Denver. In a press release, NCR...

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Apple

Apple’s Retail Head Ahrendts Steps Down

Apple announced that its retail chief, Angela Ahrendts, is stepping down, while Deirdre O’Brien is taking on an expanded role as senior vice...

FinFit Adds On-Demand Payroll to PrismHR

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PrismHR Links Employees To On-Demand Wages Via FinFit

Employee financial wellness company FinFit is integrating its technology into human resource management platform PrismHR, the firms announced on Thursday (Jan. 31)....

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Legal

Munchery Sued By Ex-Employees Over Shutdown

A new class-action lawsuit wants failed meal delivery company Munchery to pay its former employees 60 days’ worth of back wages. The...

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Payment Methods

2019: The Year Of Instant Payments

Here’s a 2019 prediction that we guarantee will come true: There will be no human being or business adamantly hoping to be...

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Regulation

Motus On Mapping Mileage Reimbursement

Tax season looms. Firms would do well to examine the latest standard mileage rates published by the IRS — and more. Motus’ Chief...

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Amazon Workers In NYC Warehouses Want To Unionize

A group of workers at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse want to unionize, according to a report by Bloomberg. The news is another...

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InsurTech Oyster Launches Workers’ Comp Service In California

A new insurance technology (InsurTech) company is rolling out its workers’ compensation solution in California. Insurance Journal reported late last week that...

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Amazon To Roll Out PillPack Service To Employees

News of Amazon‘s acquisition of online pharmacy startup PillPack have had analysts assuming the eCommerce conglomerate is ready to introduce an online pharmacy...

Real Estate Property Investors Eye Amazon's HQ2

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What’s Next For Real Estate In Amazon’s HQ2 Cities?

Build it and they will come — in this case, times two. Apologies for the cliché (some of us miss baseball already),...

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Business

Lyft, Uber, Amazon: Employees’ Top Expense

Lyft cracked the Top 10 of most frequently expensed U.S. business costs for the first time, reaching number six. According to data...

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Retail

The Retail Holiday Hiring Headache

By some accounts, the 2018 holiday season is going to be a bang-up year for retailers. Unemployment is down and consumer confidence...

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Amazon Investigates Claims That Employees Sell Data

eCommerce giant Amazon is looking into allegations that employees are offering merchants internal data and confidential information that can help them boost...

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Payments Innovation

How To Fix Healthcare Payments

Back in the good old days of healthcare, the employer paid for all (or most) of the freight, and the out-of-pockets for...

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Retail

Changes At Whole Foods Post Amazon Buy Rankles Workers, Suppliers

One year in, the changes at Whole Foods Market, post the acquisition by Amazon, are rankling some of the grocery giant’s employees...

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One-Third Of Employers Use Decade-Old Payroll Technology

A new survey has found that one-third of employers are using payroll technology that is at least 10 years old. The “Evolution of...

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You Could Do Worse Than Quit A Warehouse Job At Amazon

Amazon puts significant effort toward loyalty, as shown recently by its push to extend Prime discounts to Whole Foods shoppers, a move...

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Amazon Launches Home Cleaning Service

Amazon has been hiring house cleaners in Seattle as direct employees in an effort to boost its home services marketplace. The new...

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Today In Data

Fighting Off Unforced Errors

Yogi Berra, explaining a loss, once told reporters the problem was, “We made too many wrong mistakes.” We’d laugh, but in payments...

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Justworks Secures $40 Million For Payroll, HR Solutions

Justworks, a U.S.-based B2B FinTech, has raised $40 million in venture capital, according to TechCrunch reports on Tuesday (March 6). The company offers...

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Gig Economy

Gig Workforce Swells As Companies Shed Headcount

Long gone are the days when Ford, J.C. Penney and General Electric were the largest U.S. employers. A new analysis shows that...

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Australia’s Late SMB Payments Fight Starts Within Government Walls

As Australian policymakers explore how to combat late B2B invoice payments to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the government is beginning to...

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Why The Switch To Electronic Payments Isn’t Enough To Combat Employee Fraud

In Georgia, one Mohawk Industries employee allegedly scammed the company out of $766,000. In New York, a worker at Chevron Phillips Chemical Co....

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How FIs Can Train Human And AI Employees To Work Together

Whether in banking, security, or retail, there is a clear trend regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning: they’re on the rise,...

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With Labor Laws In Flux, Here’s How Americans Get Paid Today

The payroll landscape is in flux in the U.S., and not just because FinTech is reshaping the way employees get paid. Regulators,...

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Payments Innovation

Three Square Market To Implant RFID Chips In Employees

Three Square Market (32M) announced news on Monday (July 24) that it is offering the ability for its employees to be implanted...

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Retail

eCommerce Warehouse Labor Costs On The Rise

With the amount of online shopping orders skyrocketing over the past few years, it’s being reported that many eCommerce warehouses are having...

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Chatbots

Chatbot Tracker: Facebook Instant Games’ Productivity Impact

Fewer applications seems to be Facebook‘s new theme as we move forward in the chatbot arena. Over the course of the past...

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Mobile Commerce

Uber Seeing Employees Look To Leave Over Culture Fit Issues

Uber employees may be losing faith in the startup’s executives, with The Financial Times reporting that recruiters in the Bay Area, as well as executives at...

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Most Employees Lack Awareness To Stop Preventable Cyberattacks

MediaPro, a security training vendor, found in a new a survey that 88 percent of employees lack the awareness to stop preventable...

Payment Methods

Facebook At Work, Soon To Roll Out?

Many employers block Facebook at the workplace. Facebook is looking to change that by launching a new paid subscription model for employers...

Delivery

Deliveroo Wants To Bring Your Employees Lunch

After raising $275 million this summer, London-based Deliveroo is taking a leap to take over the higher-end restaurant and food delivery industry...

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