US Business

Slack, Dropbox and other businesses try limiting the time that employees have to be “on” to preserve life-work balance.

Drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson and manufacturer Johnson & Johnson have been negotiating the deal for more than two years.

The executives discussed a variety of possible business partnerships that would allow the companies to enter non-U.S. markets together.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Starting Aug. 1, the government-backed mortgage giants will stop charging a 0.5% refinance fee that was imposed last year during the Covid-19 pandemic.