Following complaints from employees who are teleworking and say they miss office perks such as free food and fitness, Google adopted a policy prohibiting expensing those extras while working from home, according to internal documents seen by CNBC. Employees can’t expense food, gym costs, home...
Although it’s a back-office function often plagued with loads of friction points, the accounts receivable (AR) department rarely gets the attention it deserves from digital transformation initiatives. According to SurePayd Chief Operations Officer Karen Stephen, even organizations touting their digitization progress can fall victim to...
The stage is set for contactless payments in commerce, for plastic to remain in the wallet, and for consumers to embrace digital wallets. As workforces become more decentralized, as far-flung employees still have to pay suppliers and vendors — and perhaps even travel (someday) —...
Corporate ransomware payment amounts rose sharply in the first quarter of this year, with a wave of coronavirus-related attacks and other peripherally-related cases because of complexities with shifting to remote work for many people, according to a Coveware blog post. The average ransomware payment, according...
May 07, 2020
It has been almost two months since the World Health Organization (WHO) first declared the coronavirus a pandemic on March 11, and it has since taken an unprecedented toll on consumers’ wellbeing and livelihoods. Many policymakers are making a push to lift the restrictions that have been put in place to slow the spread of […]
May 06, 2020
The stage is set for contactless payments in commerce, for plastic to remain in the wallet, and for consumers to embrace digital wallets. As workforces become more decentralized, as far-flung...
April 22, 2020
The coronavirus has shone a spotlight on the urgency of monitoring back-office functions with the same speed and insight that had once been done on-premise. Workforces are becoming ever more...
April 10, 2020
With a little over 675 million worldwide users, LinkedIn was a household name long before the coronavirus cut an incredibly wide trench through the global economy in general, and the...
May 06, 2020
Following complaints from employees who are teleworking and say they miss office perks such as free food and fitness, Google adopted a policy prohibiting expensing those extras while working from home, according to internal documents seen by CNBC. Employees can’t expense food, gym costs, home office furniture or gifts while telecommuting, even if they have […]
April 30, 2020
As U.S. workers adjust to working from home amid a nearly universal shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, one executive says more than $7 trillion will be invested over the...
April 07, 2020
Continuous delivery platform CircleCI has raised $100 million in a Series E funding round, according to TechCrunch. The round was led by IVP and Sapphire Ventures, and under the deal’s terms,...
