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Bloomberg Inflation Risk Sinks 80% of Europe’s Company Debt Sold This Year (Bloomberg) — Buyers of newly-minted corporate bonds are already nursing losses as inflation fears send government bond yields climbing.About four fifths of high-grade non-financial corporate bonds priced in Europe this year are quoted below their issue price, based on data compiled by Bloomberg. Last Friday, the share of post-issue losers stood at under 50%.This bleak statistic underscores the damaging effect on… Source link

Google is leading an effort to maintain work authorization for tens of thousands of people whose spouses hold H-1B visas, the high-skilled visa that’s common in the tech industry. Companies across the tech industry, which has been historically vocal in fighting for increased immigration rights, submitted an amicus brief Friday in a case known as Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security. A Washington district court is considering the plaintiff’s challenge to a DHS rule that allows… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Paresh Dave/File Photo (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it was leading about 30 companies and trade groups in opposing a lawsuit that seeks to stop over 90,000 spouses of highly skilled U.S. visa workers from having jobs in the country. The organizations contend undoing employment authorization for spouses would cause financial havoc… Source link

Bloomberg CDC Eases Mask Rules; NYC Offers Burgers for Shots: Virus Update (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden’s administration took its biggest step yet toward declaring victory over the coronavirus pandemic — announcing that fully vaccinated Americans can ditch their masks in most settings, even indoors or in large groups. Masks are still required on buses, trains and other forms of public transportation, as well as airports.To drive vaccinations, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is offering… Source link

The three-arrow Matter logo shown on this smart lightbulb signifies smart-home tech that will work well with other devices. Connectivity Standards Alliance;… Source link

As we get closer to what all of us hope is the end of the pandemic, companies are faced with a new challenge: how to bring people back to work. It’s not a small thing to consider when and how to get your team back in the office safely–or, whether that’s something you should do at all. That’s exactly the question Google is tackling with a new set of policies rolled out this week in a  blog post by the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. Google’s workforce has been almost entirely remote since… Source link

The company’s workers around the world can continue working remotely until September, after which they can choose between coming back to their pre-pandemic office, working out of a Google office in a different city or permanently working from anywhere if their role allows it, a Google (GOOGL) spokesperson told CNN Business. The new policy, which will go into effect September 1, was shared with employees in a note from Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday morning, the spokesperson confirmed…. Source link

Google expects its future lies in a hybrid work model under which some 60 percent of Googlers will spend a few days per week in the office, 20 percent will work in new office locations and another 20 percent will work from home. The Mountain View, Calif.-based technology giant’s more flexible stance on remote work was announced as the company shared CEO Sundar Pichai’s vision for its post-coronavirus-pandemic hybrid workplace with employees. Google’s latest hybrid work model is… Source link

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Google loves to be different. So it’s no surprise that the company has out-there ideas for the post-pandemic office. As Google starts to bring employees back to offices in some regions, it plans to experiment with ways to give them more elbow room and blend elements of virtual work with in-person collaboration. The goal, as my colleague Dai Wakabayashi described in an article on Google’s vision of… Source link