Enterprise Explores

In many tech companies, allowing employees working from home is a perk that conveys the employers trust. In China, where companies used to lots of face time with employees were suddenly forced to switch to working from home, many workers are having to prove they’re not slacking off.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As seen with the Covid-19 outbreak, pandemics can be a frightening, sobering time for people all around the world. Because of past outbreaks, countries have learned how to be more preventive with the spread of the virus. Therefore, it only makes sense that AI, with its ability to study millions of data points in mere seconds, could be the key to preventing similar future outbreaks even before they happen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Across a normally bustling nation of 1.4 billion people, some streets now lie empty and most restaurants closed as China's coronavirus quarantine push drags on. While citizens have been stuck inside as schools, cinemas, bars and gyms remain closed, some have found creative ways to combat isolation and boredom by exercising and socialising in the online world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the last 20 or so years, workers in Sweden have enjoyed an unusual perk – a statutory right to take six months off and start their own business. The Right to Leave to Conduct a Business Operation Act is one of a series of rights afforded to Swedish employees, allowing them to take time off to study or care for a family member. It’s also one of the reasons the country’s capital, Stockholm, has become Europe’s start-up capital, second only to California’s Silicon Valley for the number of unicorns (billion-dollar tech companies) that it produces per capita.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this season of love, Pizza Hut Malaysia has decided to go extra ‘cheesy’ with surprise romantic deliveries - to their competitors!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dating apps have become the default way for millennials and beyond to meet. Sort of. But like any other social media platform, dating apps come with their fair share of risks and data privacy concerns. As Vox’s Recode explores, our favorite matchmaking platforms might not be as secure as we think they are. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While most people will be busy gazing into their loved ones’ eyes this Valentine’s Day, a slew of companies will be busy gazing into their earnings.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eighty-one years ago, a broadcast of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds supposedly caused mass hysteria in America, as listeners thought martians had invaded New Jersey. There are varying accounts of the controversial incident, and it remains a topic of fascination, even today. Back when Welles’s fictional martians attacked, broadcast radio was considered a state-of-the-art technology. And since the first transatlantic radio signal was transmitted in 1901 by Guglielmo Marconi, radio has greatly innovated the way we communicate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Chinese government has made saving jobs a major priority as the coronavirus outbreak disrupts businesses and sends shockwaves across the world's second biggest economy. Now some of the most prominent companies in China are taking in displaced workers to help cushion the blow.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No interviews, no background checks, no drug tests. When there is a job available, just answer three yes-or-no questions and the job is yours. It’s a new philosophy called “open hiring”—and it works.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.