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DAVOS, Switzerland — Citi employees working remotely better be cranking on those spreadsheets, because CEO Jane Fraser is assessing the productivity data she is being provided. “You can see how productive someone is or isn’t, and if they’re not being productive, we bring them back to the office, or back to the site, and we give them the coaching they need until they bring the productivity back up again,” Fraser reportedly said at a Bloomberg event this week at the World Economic Forum…. Source link

Have you driven a Prius lately? In the past that wasn’t question usually met with a positive response. But the all-new, fifth-generation 2023 Toyota Prius hybrid may change, at least from the looks point of view. Gone is the boxy, wedge-shaped body with snout nose and staid hatchback design; now it’s sporty, with a longer front end, sedan-like low profile roof design, and something akin to a Tesla Model Y-like hatch. Toyota (TM) says the Prius will have three powertrains, two “mild”… Source link

For most of the past few years, Google–like every company–has been rethinking how its employees work. During the pandemic, most of them worked from home. Now that it seems to be mostly over, a lot of managers would like those employees to come back to the office.  Balancing that tension are leaders trying to figure out the best way to help employees be productive, or even what that even means. Google, a company known for spending a lot of energy and resources creating interesting and… Source link

Commercial real estate is down and hybrid work is a big reason why, according to one real estate executive. According to data from MSCI, commercial real estate transactions fell 22% in the second quarter from a year ago. And while inflation and an economic recession are both weighing heavily on the minds of real estate investors and “creating some hesitation,” Marcus and Millichap CEO Hessam Nadji said that it’s “not really a long-term concern.” “The bigger concern is this hybrid work… Source link

If you were trying to figure out how to get your employees back to the office after two years of working remotely, it might make sense to come up with some sort of plan that combined the two. Maybe they would come back to work a few days a week, and work from home the rest of the time. Call it a “hybrid” model of work. That certainly seems like a reasonable solution, again, if your goal is to get people back to the office. And, there are a lot of perfectly valid reasons you might want people… Source link

Google’s hybrid work experiment met with mixed reaction | Fortune … Source link

After two years of mostly remote work and months of changing plans about when to bring people back to the office, Google’s hybrid work arrangement begins today. That means that most employees will be expected to be in the office three days each week, with the rest of the time spent working remotely. Google has spent a considerable amount of time and energy reconfiguring office spaces to accommodate a hybrid work arrangement and to give employees peace of mind about returning even though we… Source link

Famed Italian car designer Giorgetto Giugiara, a man who loved straight lines and straight talk, once said “curved lines are actually bullsh*t.” Fans and clientele of Lamborghini, the super sports car maker known for its angular lines and hard-edged surfaces, would likely agree with that statement, as they are buying more cars than ever. Last year Lamborghini, which is part of Volkswagen’s Audi Group (VWAGY), had its best financial year, breaking records with vehicle sales, revenue, and… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ASSOCIATED PRESS How can you say we are sort of out of the pandemic without saying we’re out of the pandemic? During the Super Bowl, celebrities were out in force, flaunting that they weren’t wearing masks. Similarly, President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address showed that no one was wearing a facial covering. Another major sign is that Google is telling its San Francisco Bay Area workers to return to the… Source link

In 2021, the movie industry deployed multiple experiments to combat the pandemic, primarily through hybrid streaming releases.  But it looks like 2022 will be a year of back to basics for studios, even as the Omicron variant rears its head. The at-home vs. theatrical fight first made waves at the end of 2020, after Warner Bros. (T) announced that all of its 2021 films will have a day-and-date release on HBO Max, in addition to a cinematic rollout.  The studio kept that promise throughout the… Source link