Anonymity might seem like a reasonable concession to encourage more open dialogue. It's not.It's clear by now that feedback is in high demand. Whether you're a millennial or not, the latest research shows that employees want more regular, continuous input on their performance rather than an annual assessment of how they're doing.Read Full Story

Saying you're considering leaving isn't the same as admitting you're unhappy or have already made up your mind to go."I've accepted a position at another company."Read Full Story

Some of the executives were reportedly "not people in whom Jack [Dorsey] has the highest faith."Five major executives abruptly left Twitter in a surprising Sunday-night shakeup. The social media giant's heads of product, media, engineering, and Vine are no longer with the company, according to Re/code and the New York Times. The move is a massive and unexpected shakeup for the social media company that was once the darling of the tech world but lately has found its stock price plummeting and its position in the world of online media on unstable footing as social media companies like Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook increasingly encroach onto Twitter's role as media messenger.Read Full Story

Almost half of millennials want to leave their jobs in the next two years, and women feel like they have fewer opportunities.Here is what we know: Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce by 2025, and they have different priorities than their predecessors. Motivated by a different set of values and ideas despite facing challenges such as student debt, the recession, and the resulting jobs crisis, Deloitte's Millennial Survey revealed that for young adults, making the world a better, more sustainable, and compassionate place trumps a hefty paycheck.Read Full Story

A gold-based compound will help clean toxic metals released by China's vast polyvinyl chloride industry -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

In a world of unlimited options, how can TV companies get consumers to watch a particular channel or show? Advertise it!Traditional advertising is running into a problem: When it comes to television, more and more people are cord-cutters. According to a recent study, about 2.5% of Americans dropped their cable service in 2015, with many of them getting streaming television adapters such as the Google Chromecast, Apple TV, the Amazon Fire Stick, and Roku.Read Full Story

The World Economic Forum suggests climate change remains the most severe challenge to global business -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

UX research isn't about proving users hate carousels; it's about embracing uncertainty, Airbnb's Matt Gallivan writes.When you spend your days studying how people use products, your intuition around such things gets pretty well-honed. You start to see patterns and themes. You reach a point where you can identity a behavior, ask "What might this mean?" and generate some great high-level and philosophical discussions with stakeholders. People start to seek you out for answers to questions about users, even when you haven't done research that could answer those questions.Read Full Story

Wind provided 40 percent of Texas’s electricity for 17 straight hours one windy day in December -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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