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In a week when Time magazine recognized the “Silence Breakers” harassment victims as its persons of the year — with President Trump close behind — this also happened:
Facebook topped Glassdoor’s 10th annual list of the best-reviewed workplaces by employees, followed by Bain & Co., Boston Consulting Group, Google and In-NOut Burgers. Bain and Google have been in the top 25 in each of the 10 years.
A Sheetz gas station in New Kensington, Pa., has put blue lights in its bathrooms, hoping to making it hard for drug users to see their veins. Some doctors are skeptical, saying drug users can feel for their veins when they can’t see them.
That computer error that let way too many American Airlines pilots take vacation during the Christmas travel season is expected to cost the carrier about $10 million, an industry expert said. The airline initially offered to pay pilots 150 percent of their salaries for those shifts, then upped it to 200 percent.
Have you ever shampooed with Hoed & Shouders? Probably not, but it has Venezuelans in a lather. (Sorry.) The shampoo and other copycats from China like Max Quottro razors and Aluays pads are selling
well in the economically ravaged South American country, where inflation is running at an annual rate of over 4,000 percent.
Modeling agencies say tech companies are hiring models in record numbers to put a pretty face on their holiday parties. Bloomberg Businessweek reported that one agency is sending 25 women and five men — nice looking ones, of course — to one company’s party this weekend in San Francisco.
Denali Therapeutics, a South San Francisco biotech company working on cures for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, jumped 19 percent Friday in its first day of trading.
Jackson Park, a luxury apartment complex in New York’s Long Island City, plans to include voice-activated smarthome devices in all its 1,871 apartments. The Wall Street Journal reported that the gadgets would be connected through a hub to an Echo Show, the Amazon device with a video screen.