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Facebook is growing its Oculus office in Puget Sound even faster than its HQ
Facebook’s Oculus team has more open jobs in this office than at its headquarters or any office around the world.
Opinion: Employers can create better workplace culture through philanthropy
Group volunteer activities can engage your employees, but making allowances for them to pursue other volunteer opportunities can have a greater cultural impact.
Where Stanford, USC, UCLA and Berkeley rank in this year’s U.S. News Best Colleges ranking
Stanford University is the top university in California and the seventh-best nationally, according to U.S. News & World Report annual ranking, released Monday. The annual ranking includes data on more than 1,800 schools across the country. For the first time this year, the measured metrics include the graduation rates of low-income students. Acceptance rate, meanwhile, was eliminated as a factor, while the weight of expert opinions and SAT/ACT scores were among the elements reduced in the methodology. Click…
Gov. Brown signs bill that mandates 100% clean energy in California by 2045
The newly minted Salesforce Tower ascends well above the San Francisco cityscape. Also sky-high are the clean energy plans of its anchor tenant, the software giant for which the LEED-certified office tower is named. Late last month, San Francisco-based Salesforce.com Inc. said the company had invested in its largest renewable energy agreement to date — an 80-megawatt wind energy project in Illinois — en route to being fully powered by renewable energy by 2022. The project, owned and to be operated…
City, county tout accomplishments of homelessness response
Despite a sentiment from some that the city of Portland and Multnomah County aren’t doing enough to tackle the homelessness challenge, officials say they are making headway. In a release from the Joint Office of Homeless Services, the city and county provided an update on the goal of creating 2,000 units of supportive housing by 2028. (Supportive housing combines affordable housing with services for mental health, addiction and other areas.) “Homelessness begins and ends with a home,” said…
Online clothing retailer LumberUnion hires new CEO and expands into entertainment
LumberUnion is about to debut its first TV show, “7 a.m. on a Saturday,” with Whole Foods Market as a sponsor in the first step of a partnership with Amazon.
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