Monthly Archives: July 2021
Bumble to give staff unlimited paid holiday
The dating app’s policy is subject to manager approval and comes after the firm shut down for a week.
A duty to work
Occasionally, albeit rarely, I get a comment that one has a duty to work insofar one able-bodied vis-a-vis able-brained. This is a fairly complex comment which suggests either socialist or collectivist beliefs, that is, everybody has a duty to work
The extrapolation fallacy
I do not know why this keeps popping up. It basically goes like this: Take the most recent piece of history, here recent is a maybe a quarter of the characteristic time scale of anything, say the economy, technology, population,
International cruises from England to restart
Quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals from US and EU to UK ports also waived.
Covid: Furlough scheme set to wind down further
Employers will have to contribute more to the job support scheme before it is phased out in September.
‘We lost our life savings in a cryptocurrency scam’
A pensioner caught up in an investment saga lost it all, prompting warnings to others.
Car production hit by ‘pingdemic’ and global chip shortage
The UK industry says the demand is there but it is “desperately trying to get back to full capacity”.
Google workers will need Covid jabs to return to office
The search engine says it will roll the policy out globally across its offices in the coming months.