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☆ Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle criticized remote work, saying the pandemic made people lazy. Biffle joins a growing list of execs critical of remote work, including Elon Musk and David Solomon. Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle criticized working from home while speaking at Morgan Stanley's Laguna Conference this week, saying the pandemic made people lazy and that workers have gotten less productive as a result. AdvertisementAdvertisement"This is not ideal for us, and it's not a new normal," Solomon said at a conference in February 2021 regarding remote work, Bloomberg reported. AdvertisementAdvertisementAs the debate over working from home continues, there have been conflicting conclusions from studies on whether remote work is conducive to productivity.

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☆ Millionaire CEO who called for high unemployment to remind workers who's in charge apologizes for 'deeply insensitive' remarks after viral backlash
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A millionaire CEO has apologized for calling for higher unemployment to remind workers who's in charge. Tim Gurner said Thursday his remarks calling for "pain in the economy" were "deeply insensitive." He'd gotten backlash for saying workers have become "arrogant" and it's time to "kill that attitude." "At the AFR Property Summit this week I made some remarks about unemployment and productivity in Australia that I deeply regret and were wrong," he wrote. At the summit, Gurner went on to say: "There's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around.

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☆ Vegemite and more: An A to Z of the top foods and drinks Australians love most
▼ + stars: | 2018-01-20 | by ( Brooke Chenoweth | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

“During the Second World War, Vegemite captured the Australian market. Marmite was unobtainable and the Australian Army supplied Vegemite to its troops,” says the museum in a post highlighting defining symbols of Australia. “In the 1950s and 60s, despite acquisition by the American company Kraft, Vegemite became a distinctively ‘Australian’ food. 🥳No round-up of Aussie foods would be complete without this ubiquitous salty brown spread, which turns 100 on October 25. For those living in countries where it’s not yet exported, Vegemite comes in massive 560 gram jars and travel-sized tubes.

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