Summer time is the perfect time to focus in on some fun. You can feel the transition of mindset in the office, so how do you keep your team inspired? We went out and looked at ways to different companies from across the US try to keep the office light, but productive during the summer...
As seen on Mashable.com By: Yohana Desta "Don't use your phone while it's charging," "don't leave it plugged in overnight" and "always let it die completely" — these are just a few popular myths about smartphone batteries. When it comes to battery life, there are many little rules for what you can and can't do with your smartphone....
As seen on NPR.org By: Rob Stein An alarm sounds on Ed Damiano's night stand in the middle of the night. He jumps out of bed and rushes into his son's room next door. His son, David, has Type 1 diabetes. The 15-year-old sleeps hooked up to a monitor that sounds an alarm when his blood sugar gets...
As seen on WIRED.com By: Kyle Vanhemert [caption id="attachment_215" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Image Credit: Vessyl and WIRED[/caption] You’ve quantified yourself. Soon, you’ll be able to quantify your soda. Vessyl is an ordinary-seeming cup with a fairly extraordinary hidden feature: It always knows what’s inside of it. Using sensors built into its inner walls, it automatically analyzes the molecules of whatever...
By: Elias Cobb, Quantix Recruiting Manager I've been managing technical recruiters for almost 10 years now (wow...
As seen on BusinessInsider.com By: Michael B. Kelley Last year, a group of University of Pennsylvania researchers found an entirely different way to analyze human personality by analyzing Facebook status updates of 75,000 volunteers. Now there's an app that allows you to compare your Facebook personality with that of your friends and public figures. Consumer technology company Five built...
By: John Hutchins, Quantix Vice President, Client Services During the last four years, we’ve noticed a dramatic shift in the types of positions our client companies are asking us to fill – contract vs. direct hire positions. Based on conversations with friendly competitors, it appears that this shift has occurred throughout the IT employment sector. For...
As seen on Recode.net By: Liz Gannes Google has finally built its own car from scratch. And it looks like a gondola with wheels. The two-seater prototype vehicle is Google’s reimagination of what the modern automobile should look and feel like if you took the human out of the transportation equation and designed something solely to chauffeur passengers...
As seen on Businessweek.com By: Peter Coy In a TED Talk last year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology research scientist Skylar Tibbits vigorously shook a flask full of small plastic objects, causing them to link with each other into the shape of a deadly polio virus. Tibbits, a TED fellow, laid out a vision in which objects could...
By: Jill Reynolds, Quantix President and CEO The common school of thought is that too many positions (job hopping) in a relatively short period of time are equal to a bad hire or a discontent employee. But is that really the case or is this a dated theory? More and more, people are reinventing their career...