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...Patrick Grant is known to many as the nattily moustachioed judge on BBC television’s The Great British Sewing Bee....
...The researchers said Canadian banks were becoming the backstop for fossil fuel financing, potentially picking up the slack for financing projects and companies shunned by lenders in Europe....
...So they were all on this Slack chat trying to resolve a bug in a system....
...A friend at a major tech company was on a Slack chat with 15 colleagues, working to solve a bug. Then 12 of the group were fired. The Slack chat died and the problem went unresolved....
...By last year, discussions on Apple’s Slack channels were spilling on to Twitter....
...On Slack, the internal messaging platform used by Apple, more than 10,000 Apple employees have joined the group “Remote Work Advocacy”....
...Watch the FT’s Patrick McGee as he takes a trip to the lab....
...Patrick McGee...
...Sandra Boss, stewardship head at asset management company BlackRock, discussed the company’s position on proposed emissions disclosure rules from the US Securities and Exchange Commission....
...The post-Covid version, as practised by Twitter and others, is to deactivate someone’s work Slack and email accounts before telling them they are being let go....
...But at risk of stating the obvious, while pension funds were responding to regulatory pressure to diversify their holdings other investors took up the slack....
...“It is likely the rising cost of living continued to impact the UK economy,” said Sandra Horsfield, economist at Investec....
...Meier said he expected drones will shortly operate largely on their own, emerging from a charging station to carry out routine jobs and inspections and flagging relevant data into a Slack channel like any...
...Matters escalated when she took her complaints to Apple’s Slack channels, specifically a 2,000-member forum for female software engineers....
...“If you can work to allow some slack in the system, that will create a more resilient system overall,” she said....
...For the best part of the next 20 years, my wardrobe will be full of colour: hot-pink slacks and blue-check jackets and even, for a grim while, matching purple shirt and tie....
...“Remote working is getting towards a tipping point,” said Patrick McKenzie, a software engineer and marketer who has been a remote worker in Japan for 10 years, including the past three at San Francisco-based...
...Nor the water cooler Slack channel. First I’ve heard of either one of them. Look: just switch on Zoom, would you? I’m waiting. Hi, everyone....
...(Patrick Temple-West) World Hunger Day: Sandra Lee and Barron Segar The Covid-19 crisis has squeezed many issues out of the news — including global hunger....
...“In less affluent and in some cases more racially diverse parts of Hackney, residents are more likely to adopt a cautious ‘wait and see’ approach to taking the vaccine”, explained Dr Sandra Husbands, director...
...(Patrick Temple-West) Businesses grapple with big rise in investors’ ESG questions It’s hard to find a big investor that isn’t talking about ESG these days....
...CES picked up some of the slack this year, despite being virtual, with Mercedes-Benz showing off a new Hyperscreen panoramic dashboard and GM’s chief Mary Barra giving a keynote speech as the company teased...
...Instead, what is most valuable for a company is the capacity to create informal spaces for employees, whether a dedicated Slack channel for hobbies and interests, or a buddy programme for new hires....
...After years of extravagant TV dramas stretching over many seasons, limited series such as Chernobyl and Patrick Melrose, and now The Undoing, are refreshing....
...For the latest coronavirus news, including coverage of Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance’s briefing this morning, our live blog has you covered here....
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