A new workplace term is going viral on social media to describe jobs that allow young professionals to achieve the elusive goal of work-life balance: the “lazy girl job.” A number of Generation Z TikTok users are promoting this new approach to work, which bucks the trend of the United States’ always-on, hustle culture that […]
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Montana’s TikTok ban has hurt some businesses
Keri Williams wouldn’t have her business without TikTok. She launched The Branded Pinto, her custom hat shop, about two years ago after a video she shared of one of her creations “blew up” on TikTok. Nearly all of her business still comes from the platform. But earlier this week, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a […]
Will Congress Ban Tik Tok?
On Thursday, TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, will be opening a lion’s mouth and placing his own head into it. He’s giving testimony in the US Congress for the first time, a scary thing to do. And at stake is the future of the phenomenally popular video-sharing app in the US. “I think that there […]
US bans TikTok on federal devices, China reacts
China has accused the US of overreacting after federal employees were ordered to remove the video app TikTok from government-issued phones. On Monday, the White House gave government agencies 30 days to ensure that employees did not have the Chinese-owned app on federal devices. The order follows similar moves by the EU and Canada in […]
Is TikTok really a threat to national security?
TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social media app, has become a target for state and federal lawmakers over the past two years because of privacy and security risks. They are concerned that the Chinese company that owns TikTok, ByteDance, could share information from its more than 100 million American users with the Chinese government. More than […]