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Read the latest national and world news, including stories from Newsday's reporters in Washington, D.C. Young brother and sister dead, several hurt when vehicle crashes into Michigan birthday ... Read More

Working From Home Could Be Great—With These New Features

cutting-edge—and comfortable—work-from-home setups. “People really want to enjoy their life as they’re working, and be able to have that mix of both,” says Manny Varas, founder and CEO ... Read More

World News

By Lara Jakes Horses Run Loose Through Central London in Surreal Spectacle Having a team in the world’s richest sports ... made clear he sees few checks at home or abroad on his power. Read More

These working conditions should be normal in 2024

The pandemic changed how—and where— we work, and there’s no going back. Here are 15 working conditions that should be normal in our post-COVID world ... working from home during the pandemic ... Read More

Remote Work in a Post-Pandemic World

Four years after the onset of the pandemic, remote work has become the norm for a large portion of the workforce. Patricia Mokhtarian, a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ... Read More

Working from home is resulting in a condition called 'bed rotting'

SAN ANTONIO — Ever since the coronavirus pandemic, working from home has become normalized ... 10 remote and hybrid workers say they bed rot during work hours. Four out of every 10 men say ... Read More

Working from home isn’t going away, even if some CEOs wish it would

When I started working from home in the late 1980s as a freelance technical writer, I was clearly an outlier. Even contractors mostly went into the office in those days. Over time, though, that ... Read More

This is one of the world's largest technology companies to adopt permanent 'work from home' policy across its offices in 33 countries

Globant SA, led by CEO Martin Migoya, embraces remote work for 30,000 global employees post-pandemic. Revamped offices offer flexibility and aim to be a connection engine. Future plans include ... Read More

In striking reversal, low-paid workers saw biggest wage growth during pandemic years

Hourly pay rose by 12.1% in those years for low-wage Americans, from $12.06 to $13.52, boosted by policy decisions that aided those workers during the pandemic ... out of work,” said Jai ... Read More

I tried the 'office of the future' which has been dubbed the 'working from home killer'

While the pods feature glass sidings to provide a window to the outside world ... Americans are still working from home at least half of the time years after the pandemic was declared over. Read More

WORLD NEWS

A young man from South Korea has been handed a 14-month prison sentence for the brutal killing of 76 cats, marking a disturbing case of animal cruelty in the nation. The individual, in his 20s ... Read More