MONTHLY ROUND - UP S Kardashian’s PEfirmwill focus on investments in consumer andmedia business, she announced on Twitter. SKKY Partners will be run by Kardashian as a co-founder and co-managing partner and Jay Sammons who will be responsible for the day-to-day operations. Kim’s ‘momager’ Kris Jenner will be a partner at the firm. “Together we hope to leverage our complementary expertise to build the next generation Consumer & Media private equity firm”, said the reality star turned entrepreneur. She is one of the latest celebrities to dip their toe into founding their own private equity and venture capital investment firms, following Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher and Gwyneth Paltrow. Microsoft Says Workers Do Less fromHome A major recent survey from Microsoft shows that managers and employees fundamentally disagree on productivity when working from home. Managers are increasingly worried about whether employees are as productive when working from home as they are when they’re in the office. The survey, which questionedmore than 20,000 staff across 11 countries, showed that 87% of workers feel that they work as, or more, efficiently from home, while 80% of bosses disagree. “We have to get past what we describe as ‘productivity paranoia’ because all of the data we have that shows that 80% plus of the individual people feel they’re very productive – except their management thinks that they’re not productive,” says Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. “That means there is a real disconnect in terms of the expectations and what they feel.” 9
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