Honestly, the word 'surprising' is doing absolutely zero heavy lifting here.

I want to dig in for a bit on this set of Slack replies from a Twitter manager talking about undoing some of the layoffs.

Reminder to all Twitter employees based in the UK - for more than 20 redundancies, you have to engage in a 90-day consultation process or they are breaking the law.

Elon's big innovation was the facebook oversight board

I've got a head of uncertainty.

You probably missed this story with the attention on the Westminster soap opera, but another sign of how the UK #LabourMarket is breaking down due to collapsing social infrastructure #HR bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

New investigation: I’ve spent several months talking to current and former staff at KPMG In Saudi Arabia. Many are severely traumatised by their experiences, including bullying, random firings, safety concerns, unpaid earnings and whistleblowing failures.
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Not sure why David Olusoga's shocking revelation in this podcast with William Dalrymple anita anand that he needs to have a bodyguard isn't making headlines. The 'free speech' crowd are particularly quiet for some reason. Solidarity David Olusoga
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Started / Going.

I'm reviewing a slide I presented to a client a week ago, about the current employment climate and recession, and it is now completely out of date, which is a record even for one of my presentations.

I honestly can't think of a story in the last 6 months that has made me so profoundly angry and upset as the image this puts in my head.
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The position's been filled.

Sitting in a seminar where the speaker has just said: 'Most employees can smell if they're having the wool pulled over their eyes from a long way off.'

This whole onboarding process is a bit bureaucratic. Most jobs, you get maybe an hour-long PowerPoint presentation when you start, they show you round the office, and then you get on with it. The monarchy should get Deloitte or someone in to look for streamlining opportunities.

25 years since the greatest newspaper apology of all time.

Here we go again...

Of course the worst aspect of Liz Truss becoming the next PM will be the inconsistent use of possessive apostrophisation not seen since Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, in 1767.

So, to conclude a gargantuan thread:

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• Excess deaths are currently over-stated in many countries due to a failure to age-standardise
• But in England there remains a significant non-Covid excess which cannot be explained by extreme heat, unlike other countries

Brave decision to make a selling feature of the worst aspect of this structure.