Amazon and Meta have raised the stakes on the RTO fight. Other employers shouldn't follow suit.

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Employers can focus on explaining how being in the office can help workers' careers.

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  • Some companies are stepping up their RTO mandates.
  • Amazon and Meta have said you could be fired or dinged in your review for not going to the office.
  • Focusing on days in the office misses a chance to tell workers how it could benefit their careers.

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Judge in NY fraud trial threatens Trump with sanctions again, saying the ex-president's latest comments were a 'blatant' violation of the gag order

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media after exiting the courtroom during the first day of his civil fraud trial.

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  • The judge in Donald Trump's New York fraud trial has threatened the former president with sanctions again. 
  • He verbally attacked a law clerk in what the judge called a "blatant" violation of his gag order.
  • "I'm very protective of my staff
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The new, ‘efficient’ Spotify has a very different approach to podcasting

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In pursuit of profit, Spotify looks to AI rather than original content for its podcasting future

Spotify shareholders are thrilled with the company reporting an operating profit for the first time in a year, sending the stock up nearly 10 percent on the

Trump mixed up square miles and acres when he bragged to Romney about returning land to Utah, book says

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Donald Trump and Mitt Romney in 2016.

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  • Romney said former President Trump mixed up his unit of measurements during a 2018 talk about Utah.
  • Romney told author McKay Coppins that Trump gave an inaccurate picture of his restoration of land to the state.
  • But Trump went on to say that he was a "real estate guy" who fully understood metrics, per the book.

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China's troubled property giant Country Garden has reportedly defaulted on a bond payment

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A residential building of Country Garden in Fuyang City, East China's Anhui Province.

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  • Chinese developer Country Garden was officially deemed in defaulted Wednesday, Bloomberg reported.
  • It failed to meet its obligations on a dollar bond within the grace period that ended last week.
  • China is in the midst of a broad real estate slump, weighing on major developers.

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The Apple iPad Air is back down to its Prime Day price

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Amazon and Best Buy both have the iPad Air on sale for $499.99, a $99.01 markdown from its full price of $599. That's this iPad Air's lowest price ever.