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This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, January 12, 2021 Working from home has drawbacks — for the working class Last week, Eric Adams, New York City’s newly-inaugurated mayor, ignited a social media firestorm when he pointed out the obvious: big companies are hurting retail, eateries and small businesses by prolonging return-to-office plans. Office workers “are part of… Source link

Yahoo Japan is telling its 8,000 employees they can work anywhere in the country — and even be flown into work when the job requires it — bucking the trend of companies looking to return workers to offices in the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. The program takes effect April 1 and allows employees to commute by plane, which wasn’t previously an option, the company said in a statement Wednesday. While Yahoo is best… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Yahoo Japan is telling its 8,000 employees they can work anywhere in the country — and even be flown into work when the job requires it — bucking the trend of companies looking to return workers to offices in the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. Most Read from Bloomberg The program takes effect April 1 and allows employees to commute by plane, which wasn’t previously an option, the company said in a statement Wednesday. While Yahoo is best known for its internet… Source link

Head coach Brandon Staley is consistent. If the Los Angeles Chargers have a fourth-and-short, they’re going for it. No matter the situation.  To repeat: No matter the situation.  If you thought that had some limits, you’d have been surprised on Sunday night. The Chargers were stopped on third-and-1 at their own 18 in the third quarter, trailing the Las Vegas Raiders 17-14. The winner of the game would go to the playoffs, the loser was going home (they both made it with a tie).  Staley left… Source link

Raise your hand if you’ve wondered what it’s like to work at Google. Here, we’ve tapped three impressive Googlers to learn their tips for getting some of that secret sauce à la Mountain View. Nathan Allen Nathan Allen, 39, started in Google’s New York City office in October 2015 and is now the head of design for stores, sustainability and special projects. To get where he is, he urges college grads to consider meaningful internships, be flexible and… Source link

Urban Meyer is a bully. That has been true for a long time. It’s a character trait, if not an outright strategy. In football, especially the college level, it is neither rare nor necessarily negative. It wasn’t for Meyer. It fueled his enormous success — three national titles — far more than any schematic advantage. Urban Meyer wasn’t a play-caller. He was a recruiter, a motivator and a bully. He bullied his players, and bullied his assistant coaches, and bullied administrators, and… Source link

The non-fungible token (NFT) market has exploded this year into a $27 billion segment of the crypto market according to a new report from Chainalysis, which underscored what separates the most profitable digital collectors from the rest. NFTs are a family of crypto assets that hold ownership of unique data linked to a blockchain — most often Ethereum (ETH-USD). They can be packaged as digital collectibles, works of art, music, video game items, real estate of virtual reality platforms, and… Source link

MLB locked out its players just after midnight ET Thursday, triggering the league’s first work stoppage since the 1994 strike that canceled the World Series. It is a long expected, but still significant, escalation of the tense negotiations to craft a new collective bargaining agreement and shape the future of the sport. The existing CBA, an expansive document that governs everything from payroll rules to travel accommodations, expired Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. ET. Minutes later, the league… Source link

Customers navigate through the aisles during the Black Friday sales event on Thanksgiving Day at Target in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. November 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski Big-box retailers like Target, Best Buy, and Walmart closed their doors for Thanksgiving Day, giving their employees a day off before the Black Friday rush. However, in most parts of the U.S. it would be legal for these retailers to mandate employees clock in during this holiday, experts say. Thanksgiving, along with 11… Source link

What does Google’s parent company Alphabet want with robots? Well, it would like them to clean up around the office, for a start. The company announced today that its Everyday Robots Project — a team within its experimental X labs dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved some of its prototype machines out of the lab and into Google’s Bay Area campuses to carry out some light custodial tasks. “We are now operating a fleet of more than 100 robot… Source link