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Too Many Zoom Meetings? ‘Core Hours’ Keep Some Remote Workers Productive and Sane

July 19, 2021 Erin Slifka Comments Off on Too Many Zoom Meetings? ‘Core Hours’ Keep Some Remote Workers Productive and Sane
Slack, Dropbox and other businesses try limiting the time that employees have to be “on” to preserve life-work balance.

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$26 Billion Opioid Settlement Expected This Week

July 19, 2021 Erin Slifka Comments Off on $26 Billion Opioid Settlement Expected This Week
Drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson and manufacturer Johnson & Johnson have been negotiating the deal for more than two years.

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Comcast’s Roberts and ViacomCBS’s Redstone Met to Discuss Streaming Partnership

July 19, 2021 Erin Slifka Comments Off on Comcast’s Roberts and ViacomCBS’s Redstone Met to Discuss Streaming Partnership
The executives discussed a variety of possible business partnerships that would allow the companies to enter non-U.S. markets together.

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U.S. Proposes Raising Penalty for Hospitals That Don’t Publish Prices

July 19, 2021 Erin Slifka Comments Off on U.S. Proposes Raising Penalty for Hospitals That Don’t Publish Prices
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is seeking to raise penalties as high as $2 million a year for large hospitals that don’t make their prices public, after many of them failed to do so.

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Ghosn Escape Planner Michael Taylor Is Sentenced to Two Years in Prison

July 19, 2021 Erin Slifka Comments Off on Ghosn Escape Planner Michael Taylor Is Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
Michael Taylor’s son Peter is sentenced to one year and eight months as Tokyo court rules on Americans who helped former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn escape Japan.

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Zoom to Buy Five9 in $14.7 BillionDeal

July 18, 2021 Erin Slifka Comments Off on Zoom to Buy Five9 in $14.7 BillionDeal
The all-stock deal for Five9, which provides cloud-based customer-service software, will help Zoom expand its potential offerings for business and enterprise clients.

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The Pain of the Never-Ending Work Check-In

July 18, 2021 Erin Slifka Comments Off on The Pain of the Never-Ending Work Check-In
Meetings got shorter during the pandemic, researchers say, but they are multiplying; workers at companies adopting hybrid remote and office schedules should prepare for it to get worse.

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Biden’s Attack on Facebook Followed Months of Frustration

July 18, 2021 Erin Slifka Comments Off on Biden’s Attack on Facebook Followed Months of Frustration
The heated rhetoric between the White House and Facebook escalated over the weekend but comes after months of mounting private frustration inside the Biden administration over the social-media giant’s handling of vaccine misinformation.

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Escalating Materials Prices Turn Construction Bids Into a Gamble

July 18, 2021 Erin Slifka Comments Off on Escalating Materials Prices Turn Construction Bids Into a Gamble
Construction companies, manufacturers and other businesses that submit bids to win jobs say that process has turned unpredictable as rising materials costs expose them to potential losses.

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How States That Ended Federal Covid-Related Jobless Benefits Compare With Those That Haven’t

July 18, 2021 Erin Slifka Comments Off on How States That Ended Federal Covid-Related Jobless Benefits Compare With Those That Haven’t
Federally funded programs are scheduled to expire in September, but some states have opted out early.

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