How home swapping became the trendy alternative to Airbnb
Offering your home in exchange for a stay at someone else’s place is far from a new concept, but this…
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348 Hongkongers, including 50 students, fell victim to fake online job ads in May
Police advise students who are interested in finding summer jobs to be wary of falling into ‘click farming’ trap.
Major study from Stanford workplace guru reveals that hybrid work has no negative impact on getting promoted
Bosses have doubled down on their return-to-office demands of late, with many increasing their spending on office space and threatening…
US government assails Adobe for putting up ‘wholly unnecessary’ roadblocks when subscribers try to cancel
It’s now a dozen years since Adobe became the poster child for what marketing folks and techies used to call…
Mouse shakers, power naps: Corporate America fights ‘keyboard fraud’
A US banking giant fired more than a dozen employees for “simulating keyboard activity”, highlighting a battle within productivity-obsessed corporate…
Scams keep haunting crypto market, aided by AI and social media
When Jakob-Moritz Eberl clicked on a link to the website of a crypto company, he was stunned at what he…
Why you should never connect to public WiFi networks
While Microsoft has announced the existence of a major WiFi security flaw in Windows, it's important to note that it's…
US bank fires a bunch of employees after finding out they were pretending to work
A handful of bankers have been let go by Wells Fargo after the financial giant discovered the staff were “simulating…
Hybrid working has many advantages and few drawbacks, researchers say
As one of the most visible effects of the pandemic, hybrid working – combining remote and in-person working – has…