Articles tagged with: companies

• We can't comment on individual cases
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 16 March 2019 at 08:45 with tags: society, companies, rant.
  495 words, 2 minute read time.
  Why do organisations use the phrase 'we can't comment on individual cases'? Is it really always for confidentiality?
• The hellish Netflix work environment
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 30 October 2018 at 08:20 with tags: tech, companies, blinkout.
  285 words, less than 1 minute read time. Comments by me and an external link to an article by Rhett Jones on Gizmodo.
  An article at Gizmodo describes the working environment at Netflix, which seems to operate by ensuring employees are scared to death.
• Google plans to comply with Chinese censorship
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 02 August 2018 at 11:25 with tags: tech, companies, blinkout.
  201 words, less than 1 minute read time. Comments by me and an external link to an article on the BBC.
  The BBC reports that Google is planning a search-like app that complies with Chinese censorship laws despite withdrawing from China in 2010 on 'free speech' grounds.
• What happened to John Lewis?
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 26 July 2018 at 18:15 with tags: companies, rant.
  617 words, 3 minute read time. External link to an article on the BBC.
  John Lewis used to be a shop that truly put the customer first, an icon of respectability in the shopping world. No so now if my recent experience with them is anything to go by.