Shopify Aims to Reward Employees’ Improvements of Craft

PYMNTS.com— Shopify reportedly plans to base raises on numerical scores assigned to employees based on their skill level. Employees will be eligible for a raise only when their score increases within a certain amount of time, Seeking Alpha reported Tuesday (April 23), citing a paywalled article by The Information. Reached by PYMNTS, a Shopify spokesperson provided an emailed statement: “We’re […]

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Phys.org—New Nevada experiments aim to improve monitoring of nuclear explosions. On an October morning in 2023, a chemical explosion detonated in a tunnel under the Nevada desert was the launch of the next set of experiments by the National Nuclear Security Administration, with the goal to improve detection of low-yield nuclear explosions around the world.

The Points Guy—8 ways to use credit card points to reward employees. If you’re a small-business owner sitting on thousands of business credit card points, which you’ve earned by paying your company expenses, you may be inclined to put those points back into your business. However, if you have no need to use your own credit card rewards to book personal or business travel and you have …