Big-name corporations still rank high on the lists of first-time job seekers, but young people in Thailand have begun to follow the worldwide trend of working for start-up firms that rely on technologies and the opportunities that come with them. The situation signals significant changes in the economy from the smallest to the biggest levels....

Barclays Plc, a London-based bank, has installed devices that track how often bankers are at their desks. Managers were peppered with queries when investment bank staff in London discovered black boxes stuck to the underside of their desks in recent months, according to several Barclays employees who asked not to be identified speaking about...

Finger print payments are already used widely at stores in Poland, Turkey and Japan. Now a UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the veins in their fingertips, a more secure technology. Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunel University in London, can now pay using their unique vein...

In the United States, the way people work is dramatically changing. The proliferation of the gig economy is shifting the American worker’s view of nine-to-five employment and creating endless possibilities for earning extra cash to help pay the bills and make ends meet. According to a recent analysis of gig economy and workforce data conducted...