Google buying $39M fiber service in Utah for $1 Google Inc. will pay $1 for a municipal fiber-optic system that cost $39 million to build, according to terms of the Internet company's agreement with Provo. The deal is widely expected to be approved Tuesday by the City Council, making Provo the third city selected by Google for high-speed Internet and television service. More
Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos A $2 billion experiment on the International Space Station is on the verge of explaining one of the more mysterious building blocks of the universe: The dark matter that helps hold the cosmos together.... More
The Great American Brain Drain: Why 24 Million People Quit Their Jobs Every Year Two million Americans give notice every month. What pushes them to do so -- and what can employers do to staunch the talent drain? Some potent answers from Alan Hall, a veteran entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist and Forbes.com contributor. More
France mulls law to let strikers ransack offices With its long vacations, short hours and myriad workers' rights, France has a reputation for being a hard place to do business. Now add this to the mix: A law working its way through parliament would grant amnesty to workers who have ransacked their company's offices or threatened their bosses during a labor dispute. More
Is the Four-Day Workweek the Future? AI Makes It Possible LinkedIn’s recently published "25 Big Ideas That Will Change Our World in 2025" highlights a groundbreaking prediction by Zoom founder and CEO Eric S. 12/16/2024 - 5:36 am | View Link
Japan promotes 4-day workweek Japan wants its hardworking citizens to take a break. The country is pushing for a four-day workweek to address labor shortages and improve work-life balance. 12/13/2024 - 4:58 am | View Link
Tokyo Introduces 4-Day Workweek To Give Workers Extra Time For ‘Getting Busy’ To Boost Birth Rates The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is set to introduce a 4-day workweek in a radical plan to boost birthrates which have reached all-time lows. Their hope ... 12/11/2024 - 6:49 am | View Link
Tokyo’s making a huge bet on the 4-day workweek and it’s about more than just flexible scheduling We will continue to review work styles flexibly to ensure that women do not have to sacrifice their careers due to life events such as childbirth or child-rearing." ... 12/10/2024 - 12:54 am | View Link
Tokyo introduces four-day workweek for government workers to boost birth rates Tokyo will implement a four-day workweek for government employees next year to encourage young people to get married and start families. 12/9/2024 - 2:53 pm | View Link
These are the surprising benefits of a four-day working week | World ... Giving workers an extra day off a week actually increases productivity, boosts physical and mental health and reduces CO2 emissions. These are some of the surprising benefits of a four-day working week, research shows. 12/15/2024 - 6:18 am | View Website
A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek In this piece, the authors — a researcher who studies time, money, and happiness and the CEO of a global nonprofit focused on the future of work — outline a six-step guide to help leaders plan,... 12/14/2024 - 2:18 pm | View Website
The benefits of a four-day workweek according to a champion of the trend Companies exploring the option of letting employees work four days a week hope to reduce job burnout and retain talent seeking a better work-life balance, according to the chief executive of an organization that promotes the idea. 12/14/2024 - 10:15 am | View Website
What It's Really Like to Have a 4-Day Workweek We spoke with four people who work four days per week about how the schedule affects their health, well-being, and happiness. 12/14/2024 - 10:08 am | View Website
The 4-Day Work Week: What, Why, How Learn how the 4-day work week is a promising solution to talent attraction and retention, work-life balance and productivity challenges. 63% of candidates rated a 4-day work week with the same pay as the top innovative benefit that would attract them to a job. 12/13/2024 - 11:31 pm | View Website
On the morning of November 18, New York City police reported that a man fatally stabbed three people in a seemingly random spree in Midtown Manhattan. The victims included a construction worker in Chelsea, a man fishing along the East River, and a woman sitting on a bench near the United Nations headquarters.
Four years ago, after thousands of people were incited by losing presidential candidate Donald Trump to storm the US Capitol and try to prevent Joe Biden from taking office, the FBI began one of its largest criminal investigations ever. Those efforts remain ongoing but may soon largely be undone by Trump, using the clemency powers of the presidency.
The state of Utah has come up with its share of boondoggles over the years, but one of the more enduring is the Uinta Basin Railway. The proposed 88-mile rail line would link the oil fields of the remote Uinta Basin region of eastern Utah to national rail lines so that up to 350,000 barrels of waxy crude oil could be transported to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Back in early August, I reported on the arrest of two climate activists outside the New York headquarters of Citibank, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel financiers and target of a campaign known as Summer of Heat.
John Mark Rozendaal, a former music instructor at Princeton University, and Alec Connon, director of the climate nonprofit group Stop the Money Pipeline, were detained for 24 hours and charged with criminal contempt, which carries up to seven years in prison.