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Acer recently hosted a mega e-sports tournament titled 'Acer Predator Gaming League 2020' or 'PGL-2020' in short.

Shipping in products from abroad has been a fairly common practice amongst many people in the country now. Seeing the demand and understanding the importance of reliable service, a new startup called Airposted has emerged to serve as a platform to connect shoppers with travelers.

The first thing to do is to develop a company policy regarding common issues such as recruitment, compensation and workplace etiquette. Without an HR department, a company can go about solving these in three ways.

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Our work environments are changing fast. Most of our business communications now take place online and much of these communications are now moving to our inboxes rather than e-mails.

Bangladesh Network Operators group – BDNOG, as a part of its continuous effort, is going to host its 11th Conference from January 10-14, 2020 in Cox’s Bazar.

The landscape of the internet is saturated with beguiling job offers for students and fresh graduates to engage in the magic of wordplay. The enmeshing of grammar, syntax, and handy vocabulary makes copywriters the vanguards of advertising firms.

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For those curious about the nightmarish logistics of maintaining a transport company, this game will deliver. In-game, you start around 1850 as a rail service and as time progresses, you can start to expand roadway, maintain water supplies and air quality, while building up your huge network of trucks, trains, boats and planes to become the biggest transport tycoon of the 21st century.

Skillshare is an E-learning platform which offers unlimited access to many useful courses, available for $15/month. SkillShare offers the first two months for free, and the site gives access to around 25,000 courses from the start.

Thrive is a fresh EdTech startup that is taking the Bangladeshi institutional education market by storm.

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It’s amazing what makers can now do with some circuits and a bit of LCD. It’s the future and it’s all about 2020 vision.

Strategic pivot from an office lunch catering business to an event catering business: Muhammed Asif Khan, CEO of Alpha Catering

Workplace safety is a responsibility shared by both the employers and employees.

More and more companies are seeing the increase of women in the workforce. Women are rising to the top levels of companies. An increasing number of companies are seeing the value of having more women in leadership roles, and they’re proving that they can make progress on gender diversity. This is an important step in the right direction.

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Organisations have come a long way today in ensuring congenial workplaces for women. However, there’s still a lot of gaps that need filling. With a goal to learn and advance by leveraging competencies, 7 organisations (Unilever, Grameenphone, BAT, Nestle, Robi, SCB and HSBC) have formed a cross-industry council and started an initiative called “Inspirit”. We sat with three representatives to explore the inspirations that paved the way for the initiative.

Workspaces are often designed with functionality as the primary objective; gender considerations are yet to be integrated into office design for a large number of organisations in Bangladesh. What follows is a set of extremely simple things that organisations can do to make the office a safe, women-friendly place.