An employee of the Russian government who may have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus has been put under quarantine, and those he had contact with are being monitored. The employee’s test results have been sent for additional verification, the government said on Thursday. Meanwhile, his colleagues have been placed under observation and the areas in government buildings where he had been working have been disinfected, […]
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BuzzFeed is cutting pay for its employees as the company attempts to weather the coronavirus pandemic. In an internal memo on Wednesday, the company announced a graduated salary reduction for the majority of employees for the months of April and May, adding that company brass would meet with the news union to ratify the cuts. Staffers in the lowest bracket—which includes anyone making under $65,000 annually—would […]
An employee for Fox Business Network has tested positive for the coronavirus. The network announced the news Friday night, hours after announcing plans to scale back programming out of an abundance of caution over coronavirus concerns. Many news organizations have taken precautions after employees have tested positive for COVID-19. Fox Business announced in a company-wide memo they will be “doing a deep cleaning of all areas […]
NBC News staffer Larry Edgeworth died on Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus, chairman Andy Lack told employees in a company-wide memo Friday morning. According to NBC News, the staffer suffered from other health issues that led to him succumbing to Covid-19. Edgeworth had been with NBC for 25 years, working as an audio technician, where he was beloved by his colleagues. From NBC: “Many of you […]
For a handful of American journalists who have been covering the novel coronavirus outbreak, the battle against COVID-19 may have just become even more personal and immediate. NBC News announced Friday that Larry Edgeworth, an equipment room employee at ’30 Rock’, succumbed to complications caused by the virus. NBC News head honcho Andy Lack delivered a statement about Edgeworth’s death. “Many of you were fortunate enough […]
Working at internet giant Baidu provided too much temptation for one employee, who got in legal hot water for harnessing the firm’s massive trove of servers to mine cryptocurrency. According to a report from China-focused news site Abacus on Monday, An Bang – a senior engineer working on Baidu’s popular search engine – downloaded monero mining scripts onto around 200 Baidu servers between April and June […]
Frequent readers will know the Bank of International Settlements as not only the central banks’ central bank and ultimate financial regulator, but also as the (not so) secretive group… … which runs the world out of Conference Room E in the ominous circular tower block next to the Basel train station (strategically located to provide a quick and easy exit if things ever get heated), where […]
A Today show employee who works at the 30 Rockefeller Plaza building in New York City has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to a memo sent out to staff. Noah Oppenheim, the president of NBC News, emailed employees late Sunday to tell them that the unnamed staff member, who works on the weekday third hour show, was receiving medical care for “mild symptoms” and […]
New York publishing house Hachette canceled Woody Allen’s biography and returned the rights to the famous film director, after its employees staged a walkout in protest. Allen was accused of child sex abuse by his ex-partner. “The decision to cancel Mr. Allen’s book was a difficult one,” a spokeswoman for Hachette Book Group said in a statement on Friday. “We take our relationships with authors very […]
Facebook has shut down its three London offices until Monday after a Singapore-based staff member who’d visited two weeks earlier was diagnosed with coronavirus, the social media company confirmed. “An employee based in our Singapore office who has been diagnosed with COVID-19 visited our London offices 24-26 February 2020,” a Facebook spokesperson told Sky News on Friday, explaining that all three London offices would be closed […]
HSBC’s London office in Canary Wharf has evacuated its entire research department on Thursday morning after an employee tested positive for the Coronavirus, Financial News reports . NEW: I’m told HSBC has evacuated parts of its Canary Wharf office after a coronavirus scare. — Shehab Khan (@ShehabKhan) March 5, 2020 The research department was then “deep-cleaned and sanitized”, according to a person familiar with the matter. […]
HSBC has evacuated its UK headquarters in London after an employee of the bank tested positive for coronavirus. The infected individual reportedly works in the bank’s research department, and an entire floor of the Canary Wharf building that houses the company will have to be deep cleaned as a result of the incident. The headquarters is in the center of London’s financial center, which hosts many […]
On Monday morning, a Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) AG spokesman confirmed that one employee has tested positive for Covid-19, and over 100 others are in self-quarantine, reported Reuters. The disturbing report of a potential breakout of the deadly virus at a BMW research facility in Munich, Germany, comes as the country has already confirmed 150 cases on Monday, up from 129 on Sunday. Many of the confirmed cases […]
An elementary school employee in Lake Oswego is Oregon’s first reported case of the novel coronavirus, resulting in closure of the 430-student school for both “deep cleaning,” and to determine whether anyone else was exposed. The employee at Forest Hills Elementary School has not traveled abroad recently and apparently contracted the virus through “community transmission.” Oregon Live reports it is currently not known how the patient […]
An Oregon elementary school employee in Clackamas County has tested positive for the new coronavirus and may have exposed other people to it at work, health officials said Friday night. The announcement raised two key questions: how the patient contracted the virus since they have not traveled to any hot spots, and how many other may be infected as a result. “We’ve been expecting this and […]
An IT staffer at Ukraine’s State Judicial Administration has been charged with illegally mining cryptocurrency at his workplace. The prosecutor’s office of Kyiv reported Wednesday on its Facebook page that, together other agencies, it has completed an investigation into the employee who worked in the data systems division of the court administration department. The unnamed individual is said to have taken advantage of the equipment and […]
Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, one of the largest software companies in the world, hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s re-election on Wednesday at the tech titan’s Southern California estate. The event was expected to bring in some $7 million for the incumbent president. Some of Ellison’s employees were less than pleased about that, signing a protest petition and, according to Recode, planning to walk out […]
A Tel Aviv court ordered Facebook Inc to unblock the private account of a worker at Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, and similar rulings are expected for other employees in the coming days, an NSO spokeswoman said on Tuesday. A group of NSO employees filed suit against Facebook in November, saying the social media giant had unfairly blocked their private accounts when it sued NSO in October. Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp accused the Israeli firm of helping government spies break into the phones of about 1,400 users in a hacking spree targeting […]