When Congress passed a law in 2024 to ban TikTok unless it came under U.S. ownership, lawmakers argued that the app’s Chinese parent company posed national security concerns.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesWhen retail executives start swearing during earnings calls, something is clearly amiss.
Eric Yuan was not happy at Cisco Systems even though he was making a salary in the high six figures, working as vice president of engineering on the videoconferencing software Cisco WebEx.
“I even did not want to go to the office to work,” Yuan told CNBC Make It in 2019.
In 2020, American businesses responded to an unprecedented wave of racial justice protests with an equally unprecedented surge in corporate commitments.
Mae Reeves and her husband, Joel, pose with her hats at Mae's Millinery in Philadelphia, circa 1953.
The flourishing Black business district in Detroit, Mich., photographed in 1942. Arthur S. Siegel via the Library of Congress, CC BY-NDBlack businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s and 1960s.
We usually think of workplace deviance as linked to “bad apples”–the troublemakers who egregiously slack off, steal from the company or openly clash with coworkers. But what if deviant behaviour was also more subtle–daydreaming, taking long coffee breaks or cracking an edgy joke in a meeting? It turns out most employees engage in quieter patterns of minor misbehaviours, and it’s changing how we think about deviance on the job.
It’s a tough time for Canadians to start a new business. A looming recession, intensifying trade war with the United States and geopolitical uncertainty are making the economic landscape difficult for many business owners.
drante/Getty ImagesJournalist Paddy Gower’s attempts to trademark his brand have highlighted what is still considered offensive in New Zealand when it comes to trademarks. But should a government agency be the arbiter of what might offend?
In March 2024, Gower applied to trademark the name of his news entity “This Is The Fucking News”.
Not-for-profit organisations support a range of needs and activities, such as financial disadvantage, health and education.
Governments support these entities through various measures, notably exemption from income tax and other taxes.
