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Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home. The drive to get people back into offices is clashing with workers who've embraced remote work as the new normal. A six-minute meeting drove Portia Twidt to quit her job. (Anders Melin via Bloomberg)
Tesla failed to oversee Elon Musk's tweets, SEC argued in letters. Securities regulators told Tesla Inc. last year that Chief Executive Elon Musk’s use of Twitter had twice violated a court-ordered policy requiring his tweets to be preapproved by company lawyers, according to records obtained by The Wall Street Journal. (Dave Michaels via Wall Street Journal)
West Virginia to give away guns as Covid-19 vaccine incentive. As states throughout the U.S. launch campaigns to try and convince residents to get the Covid-19 vaccine— with million dollar lotteries, college scholarships, free beer, and amusement park tickets topping the list — West Virginia has come up with a lottery scheme all its own: giving the newly-vaccinated the chance to win not just money, but rifles and shotguns. (Alison Durkee via Forbes)
Amazon backs federal bill to legalize marijuana and adjusts its drug testing policy for some workers. Amazon on Tuesday said it backs federal legislation to legalize marijuana. The company also said it would adjust its drug testing policy for some workers to no longer screen for cannabis. (Annie Palmer via CNBC)
Twitter's Fleets are getting Stories-like ads. Twitter said Tuesday it will start adding full-screen ads to Fleets, its disappearing tweets that sit in a row at the top of users' mobile Twitter interface. (Kim Lyons via The Verge)
Just How Bad Is America's Drinking Problem?. Few things are more American than drinking heavily. But worrying about how heavily other Americans are drinking is one of them. The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock because, the crew feared, the Pilgrims were going through the beer too quickly. (Kate Julian via The Atlantic)
Capitol Hill staffers are fed up with unlivable salaries that hinder diversity and kneecap careers. Hill staffers have put up with low wages for years. Some start in the high $20,000s. Powerful Congress members want to give them a raise after a pandemic and the January 6 insurrection. (Kayla Epstein via Business Insider)
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