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Intel could be planning for another huge employee cutdown since 2016. Reports are saying that the chip-making company will do so to cope with the PC market decline. If it were true, the layoffs would get announced as early as this month.

Believe it or not, Apple is making some of its employees wear a police-grade body cam to prevent them from leaking the company's hardware secrets. It is reported that the tech giant has been executing this dramatic measure for at least the last few weeks. 

Chinese subsidiary Canon Information Technology might have gone too far managing its employees. The firm is putting its employees under surveillance with AI-enabled smile recognition cameras that only let the smiling ones enter rooms or book meetings. This is probably one of the most dystopic ways used to enhance the workplace culture.

It looks like the current pandemic has shifted the view of some companies and Microsoft is one of them. Now, the tech giant is allowing its emloyees to work from home permanently. The company has unveiled the “hybrid workplace” guidance internally to allow for greater flexibility once the US offices eventually reopen in January 2021 at the earliest.

During August this year, Microsoft Japan was trying out a new project called Work-Life Choice Challenge Summer 2019. The initiative was to give its 2300 employees five Fridays off without decreasing their paycheck.