Research Shows Working From Home Doesn’t Work. Here’s How Employers Should Tackle the Problem

We followed the science on COVID-19. Now, as the end of the pandemic draws closer, it’s time to follow the science on working from home.

The verdict is clear: For many jobs—particularly collaborative, high skill level, high-value roles—working from home simply doesn’t work, and we shouldn’t confuse a temporary abnormal with a new normal.

The pandemic wi…

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Momentum Is Building for Antitrust Reform. What It Means for Big Tech

Worry about the concentration of wealth and power achieved by monopolistic—or potentially monopolistic—entities have always been wrapped up in each respective era’s technological innovations. It is not surprising then that the focal point of today’s debate around antitrust reform is the size and scope of internet giants like Google, Facebook (Meta Platforms, Inc.), Amazo…

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The Woman King Is an Exhilarating Spectacle

We’ve become so conditioned by years of watching men fight men onscreen—jabbing with spears, blamming with guns, high-kicking the daylights out of each other with a mighty oof—that, the Amazons of the Wonder Woman movies notwithstanding, it’s a novelty to see women going at it. That’s just one of the pleasures of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s hist…

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The Truck Driver Shortage Doesn’t Exist. Saying There Is One Makes Conditions Worse for Drivers

As the U.S. contends with supply-chain problems that could make holiday shopping harder, one explanation comes up again and again: The country doesn’t have enough truckers. “The Biggest Kink in America’s Supply Chain: Not Enough Truckers,” a New York Times story read this week. Where Are All the Truck Drivers? Shortage Adds to Delivery Delays, cried a Wall Stree…

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Disney Delays ‘Avatar,’ ‘Stars Wars,’ Marvel Films in Major Readjustment

Walt Disney Co. updated its film release schedule on Tuesday, delaying some major films by as long as three years.

The third installment of Avatar moves to December 2025 from an earlier date of December 2024. Two other Avatar sequels were pushed back by three years to 2029 and 2031 respectively.

Two upcoming films in Marvel’s multibillion-dollar Avengers …

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The One Spooky Show to Watch This Halloween

There’s one screenshot from the second season of the Spanglish comedy Los Espookys that I can’t stop sending to my friends.

The Espookys—a group of four friends who stage “spooks” straight out of B horror films—have just wrapped up a gig in a graveyard when Úrsula (Cassandra Ciangherotti) stumbles across a curious flier. “Free radic…

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Why Mars Inc.’s Boss Wants to Help Others on Climate Goals

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Achieving growth while cutting emissions in a company’s value chain is an ambitious target. Mars Inc. CEO Poul Weihrauch thinks he has the right strategy and he wants to help other business leaders replicate it.

A little over a year into his role, ann…

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Why ESG Is So Confusing

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A few weeks ago, I wrote a story about the anti-ESG movement in Texas’s foray into insurance. Soon after, I received a very thoughtful response from a declared ESG opponent taking issue with the idea that ESG metrics are relevant for insurers. The one issue: he had used the term …

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WNBA’s Cathy Engelbert Discusses Brittney Griner, Roe v Wade

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Momentous disruptions—and some impressive wins—have marked the tenure of WNBA commissioner of Cathy Engelbert, who In 2019 left her CEO post at Deloitte to take over the league. In 2020, after Engelbert negotiated a collective bargaini…

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