When Arjun Sharma noticed that employee monitoring tool Time Doctor was installed on his company laptop, he didn’t think much of it.  “You would sign into work, it’s like clocking in and clocking out. So you would sign in at like 9 a.m. and pretty much just click start on …

The days of high-flying, big-spending business travel may be over for good. As a new report by research company Morning Consult declared: Business travel will never return to normal. Tighter corporate budgets and new ways of virtual working have permanently changed business travel, according to the report, titled “Business, but …

Signs explaining Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and other banking policies on the counter of a bank in Westminster, Colorado November 3, 2009.  Rick Wilking | Reuters If there wasn’t enough banking jargon to blind you, it’s time to learn a new piece of it: Welcome to the industry’s era …

Pedestrians carry McDonald’s bags in New York, US, on Wednesday, April 6, 2023.  Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images As restaurants prepare to present their first-quarter earnings, investors are anticipating strong results. But the rest of the year may prove bumpier for the sector. related investing news McDonald’s, …

While some companies are pulling back on flexibility, others, like Airbnb and Pinterest, are celebrating one year since permanently switching to remote or hybrid work. Even as the number of remote job opportunities dwindles, demand for flexible work remains high: Nearly half of employees want more flexibility in where and …

A decade ago, then-Netflix chief content officer — and now co-CEO — Ted Sarandos told GQ, “The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.” But, to quote HBO’s “The Wire,” “The thing about the old days: they the old days.” Today, the apparent goal for both …

A “Store Closing” banner on a Bed Bath & Beyond store in Farmingdale, New York, on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Johnny Milano | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bed Bath & Beyond on Sunday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after it failed in several last-ditch efforts to raise enough money …

Barbara Corcoran experienced every professional’s worst nightmare: She landed her dream job, only to have the offer rescinded. Before the first season of ABC’s “Shark Tank” aired in 2009, a producer’s secretary reached out to Corcoran and asked the real estate tycoon to be an investor on the show. She …

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 27: Student loan borrowers gather at Supreme Court the evening before the court hears two cases on student loan relief to state the relief is legal and needs to happen immediately on February 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for We The …

Siemens wind turbines operate on a wind farm in Marshalltown, Iowa, where many of Berkshire’s first big renewable investments were made over the past decade as the former MidAmerican Energy under now-Berkshire Energy was well situated in one of the nation’s top wind corridors. Timothy Fadek | Corbis News | …