Tag: email
Tesla to cut salaries, furlough workers as COVID-19 shutdowns extended to May 4
Tesla is suspending production at its U.S. factories until May 4 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting the company to cut pay for salaried employees between 10% and 30% and furlough workers, according to an internal email sent Tuesday night and viewed by TechCrunch. Pay cuts for salaried employees —…
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New email service, OnMail, will let recipients control who can send them mail
A number of startups over the years have promised to re-invent email only to have fallen short. Even Google’s radical re-imagining, the Inbox app, finally closed up shop last year. Today, another company is announcing its plans to build a better inbox. Edison Software is preparing to launch OnMail, a…
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Tesla email reveals two employees have tested positive for COVID-19
Two Tesla employees, who had been working at home for nearly two weeks, have tested positive for COVID-19, according to an internal email sent Thursday morning by the company’s head of environmental, health, and safety department and viewed by TechCrunch . The employees were not symptomatic in the office, and…
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Staff angered as Charter prohibits working from home despite spread of coronavirus
An engineer from Charter, one of the largest phone and internet providers in the U.S., sent an email blast to a senior vice president and hundreds of engineers on Friday. In the email, Nick Wheeler, a video operations engineer based in Denver, criticized his employer for not allowing its staff to…
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Particle lays off 10% staff and co-founder departs after ‘turbulent period’
San Francisco-based startup Particle was one of the rising stars in the Internet of Things space, raising more than $81 million to date on the promise of helping to manage and secure the next-generation of connected devices. But the company is only now emerging from what it’s co-founder and chief…
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Gmail finally makes easier to search your email
Gmail’s search is getting a significant update that will allow users to more easily narrow results to help them find a specific email. Before today, users could type in search filters by hand (e.g. label:work, has:attachment, from:[email protected], etc.) or use the drop-down box to perform an advanced search. But these…
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