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☆ Obesity drug data could boost companies' case for US coverage, analysts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Patrick Wingrove | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Wegovy prescriptions were up 300% at their peak, according to data from Barclays, before supply issues began to hamper sales. A COMPELLING CASEAnalysts said the data made a compelling case for long-term health benefits of the drug. Analysts were divided on whether Medicare could potentially cover Wegovy as a cardiovascular treatment without a new law passing. Three doctors specializing in obesity treatment, including a cardiologist, were not sure whether such an indication would allow for Medicare coverage. Companies that provide healthcare insurance have begun pulling back on coverage of weight loss drugs because of the high cost of the medicines.

Persons: Read, Eli Lilly, Stacie Dusetzina, Wegovy, Eli Lilly's Mounjaro, Evan Seigerman, Eugene Yang, Morningstar, Damien Conover, Tom Carper, Eli Lilly's, Dusetzina, Patrick Wingrove, Elissa Welle, Ahmed Aboulenein, Caroline Humer Organizations: Novo Nordisk, U.S, Vanderbilt University, Medicare, Barclays, University of Washington Medicine, Companies, Democratic, Novo, Reuters, Democrat, Republican, Thomson Locations: New York, Danish, Washington

☆ Why You Can’t Stop Reading About Sofia Vergara’s Split
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Remy Tumin | More About Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This week, the actors Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello announced their divorce after seven years of marriage. Ariana Grande and her husband, Dalton Gomez, also appeared to be on the outs. Fans were trawling the stars’ social media posts, looking for any clue about what was going on — on their ring fingers, in their facial expressions and even in the posts the stars liked. Because dealing with a breakup is one of the most relatable things a star can do. “Breakups are such an identifiable thing,” said Alicia Mintz, who hosts the podcast “Trashy Divorces” with her wife, Stacie Boschma.

Persons: Marilyn, Joe, Brad, Jennifer, Angelina, Elizabeth, Richard, Tom, Gisele, Kim, Kanye, Diana, Charles, Henry VIII, Sofia Vergara, Joe Manganiello, Ariana Grande, Dalton Gomez, ”, Alicia Mintz, Stacie, “

☆ Are Gen Zs the most challenging generation to work with? 3 in 4 managers think so
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Nessa Anwar | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Gen Z, loosely defined as those born between the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2010s, is the latest generation to enter the workforce. A survey done by Resume Builder, a resource website for job seekers, revealed that around 3 out of 4 managers find that Gen Z is the most challenging generation to work with. Noting that Gen Z employees had to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic and remote working, she added: "[Gen Zs] didn't even have an opportunity to relate to people at all in a workplace. Ziad Ahmed, the founder of JUV Consulting, a digital marketing agency staffed entirely by Gen Z employees, told CNBC that managing young people is also a challenge for him. Watch the video to see the different perspectives of both Gen Z employees and managers.

Persons: Gen, Stacie Haller, Zs, Ziad Ahmed Organizations: CNBC, JUV Consulting

☆ ChatGPT experience may be able to get you that job. More than 90% of potential employers are looking for workers who use the chatbot.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A career expert urges job seekers to include ChatGPT experience on their resume and cover letters. ChatGPT experience can help you land your next job, according to a recent study from ResumeBuilder. The survey found that 91% of business leaders who are hiring are looking to hire workers with ChatGPT experience. Respondents say they are most likely looking to hire workers with ChatGPT experience for their software engineering departments, followed by customer service, human resources, and marketing. Job seekers, Haller said, should include their ChatGPT experience in their resume and cover letters.

☆ 3 in 4 managers say Gen Z is the most 'challenging' generation to work with — and 40% of the group flagged a lack of technological skills, effort, and motivation: survey
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The managers said Gen Zers lack technological skills, effort, and motivation. It's so bad that 27% said they've fired a Gen Z employee within the first month. About 40% of that group said it's because people in this age group lack technological skills. The same proportion of managers also felt Gen Z employees — those born between 1997 and 2012 — lack motivation and get "easily distracted." The tensions between the generations are so bad that some managers who found Gen Z challenging to work with said they fired a Gen Zer promptly after hiring.

☆ 12% of managers say they've fired a Gen Z employee in their first week of work — and being too easily offended is often to blame, new survey finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Nearly 75% of managers in a recent survey said Gen Z is more difficult to work with than other generations. About 12% and 16% of that group said they have fired a Gen Zer in their first week or month of work, respectively. She continued: "We know that with remote work and education, communication skills do not develop as well and people tend to work more independently. About 20% of these managers said they have fired a Gen Z worker in their first week of work and 27% within their first month. "GenZers could benefit from developing their communication skills to build stronger relationships with colleagues and client.

☆ How ChatGPT is changing the job hiring process, from the HR department to coders
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Kevin Travers | Special To Cnbc.Com | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

But how many business leaders are currently using AI tech in day-to-day operations or plan to? Half of the companies ResumeBuilder surveyed in February said they are using ChatGPT; 30% said they plan to do so. Since the survey was completed, more professionals have started using generative AI. There has been a growing concern that generative AI could replace jobs, and perhaps not the ones most expected. On the hiring side, 82% of respondents said they had used generative AI for hiring in a recent ResumeBuilder update.

☆ 96% of remote companies say they're using some kind of software to monitor employees who work from home, survey finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

About 96% of remote companies use some kind of employee monitoring software, according to a survey. Three in four companies have fired employees over data from the monitoring software. The struggle seems real, with a "surprisingly high percentage" — that's 37% — requiring their remote employees to be on a live feed all day, per ResumeBuilder.com. Other surveillance methods include monitoring employees' web browsing and app use, as well as blocking content. Companies are definitely using the data they obtain from monitoring their staff — about three-quarters of survey respondents told ResumeBuilder.com their companies have fired employees over the data they collected.

Although insulin list prices are high in the U.S., drugmakers typically pay substantial rebates to private insurers and government programs, resulting in lower prices for most Americans with insurance. U.S.-listed Novo Nordisk shares rose as much as 1.7% to $142.95, while Denmark-listed shares closed marginally higher on Tuesday. Eli Lilly shares were down slightly. "I think it is a relatively natural consequence of what we have seen their competitor Eli Lilly do. Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk make up 90% of the U.S. market for insulin.

☆ Southern Baptists Expel Saddleback Church Over Female Pastor
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Saddleback Church lead Pastor Andy Wood and his wife, Stacie Wood, meet with a congregant in Lake Forest, Calif. The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday expelled Saddleback Church, the California megachurch founded by influential evangelical pastor Rick Warren, and four other churches from the denomination because they had female pastors. The decision to remove or “disfellowship” the churches came after the convention’s executive committee determined that the five churches were “not in friendly cooperation” with the denomination, said Jared Wellman, executive committee chairman, in a statement.

☆ The most common lies people put on their résumés — and why they do it
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Jonathan Small | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

65% of respondents say lying in the hiring process helped them land a higher salary. The biggest lie was about education, with 44% of respondents saying they stretched the truth regarding their academic bona fides. Lies during the job interviewThe lying game doesn't end with the résumé. The most common lie in job interviews is years of experience. Sixty-five percent of respondents say lying in the hiring process helped them land a higher salary.

☆ She Turned a 93-Year-Old Ford Into a Hot Rod
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Tracy Nguyen For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Stacie Depner , 46, a mechanical engineer and medical device product-development director living in Anaheim, Calif., on her 1930 Ford Model A hot rod, as told to A.J. When I was in my second year in college, I was living on University Avenue in Minneapolis and every weekend I would see old cars drive by. I found out that everyone was going to Porky’s, a famous drive-in, for cruise nights. I thought: “I wonder what other cool car events are going on around here?” That’s when I found out about Back to the 50’s, which is one of the biggest annual car shows in the country. I first went in 1996, and this was a eureka moment for me.

☆ How to format your resume the right way, according to experts: 'The standard template is 3 sections'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

asks Stacie Haller, chief career advisor at Resume Builder. "You have six seconds" to impress a hiring recruiter considering you for a position. That's why it's critical to get your resume right when applying for jobs. But getting the format right will certainly make it easier for hiring managers to decipher information quickly. "The standard template is three sections," according to Gorick Ng, Harvard career adviser and author of "The Unspoken Rules."

☆ The resume-like doc to keep on your desktop for when a dream job opportunity pops up: 'You want to be ready'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

As you're building your career history, experts recommend keeping an ongoing record of everything you've done on the job. This document has been called a continuous resume or a CV, and it highlights every significant piece of your career ― from day-to-day accomplishments to major awards. When applying to new positions, this document serves as a point of reference from which you can copy and paste the most relevant and up-to-date experience for a resume for the prospective job. Here's how experts recommend keeping it. Keeping it up-to-date means when it's time to write the resume for that prospective job, you don't have to wrack your brain to remember accomplishments from previous positions.

☆ The US military is planning for a 'transformative' year in Asia as tensions with China continue to rise
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Christopher Woody | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Amid rising tensions with China, the US military has sought to bolster its presence in Asia. US forces there may see the "most transformative year" in a generation in 2023, a US official said. Major changes to the US military presence in Asia face logistical and political hurdles, however. Other countries have sought more training with the US military or, in the case of Palau, to host US forces. There are opportunities for the US "to expand its access and deepen relationships" in both Northeast and Southeast Asia, said Thompson, a former US Defense Department official, but US leaders will have to reckon with the limits of those partnerships, especially in Southeast Asia.

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company negotiates directly with drugmakers. So far, that's been the strategy for the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. In October, Cost Plus Drug Company announced a partnership with Capital Blue Cross. Cuban said he wanted Cost Plus Drug Company to be as transparent as possible on pricing. Cost Plus Drug Company is considering a test program for insulin that would offer a 90-day supply of insulin, or a total of 12 vials, for $170.

☆ Some of Taylor Swift's biggest fans are also lawyers. After Ticketmaster's botched handling of her Eras Tour, they're mobilizing to take the ticketing giant down.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Nicole Tabak | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Ticketmaster badly botched its sale of Taylor Swift tour tickets last week. Facing endless questions and concerns over the chaos that ensued during presales for Swift's upcoming Eras Tour, fans gathered on social media not just to commiserate, but to take action. How Ticketmaster's chaotic handling of the Eras Tour presale may lead to its undoingSwift fans shared screenshots of the long queues for tickets. "And I know that sounds stupid to people who don't love Taylor Swift the way that a lot of us do. The momentum may be thanks to her Eras Tour, but this is about holding a monopoly accountable.

☆ Ukrainian suicide drone boats packed with bombs are threatening Russia's once feared Black Sea fleet, and it may not be able to stop them
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ukraine last week appeared to attack Russia's Black Sea Fleet using a swarm of naval and aerial drones. Russia labeled the attack a "terrorist act" and briefly suspended a deal on grain shipments. Experts told Insider the attack demonstrates that nowhere is safe for Russia's naval assets. Russia has not, to date, taken such steps to protect its Black Sea Fleet, a force which has participated in the missile barrages of Ukraine and lost its flagship in another stunning Ukrainian attack. Nothing powered by a jet ski engine is going to be able to match the speed and range of a Russian ship at sea; when Ukraine sunk the cruiser Moskva, the former flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, it did so with a cruise missile.

☆ 88% of employers are offering return-to-office incentives―here's how to negotiate yours
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The majority of employers, 66%, currently require employees to work from the office, according to a September 2022 ResumeBuilder.com survey of 1,000 American business leaders. When it comes to convincing those who'd still prefer remote work to coming back, most employers are trying to make it worth their while. A majority of companies, 88%, are currently offering incentives like catered meals and commuter benefits to get workers to return, according to ResumeBuilder.com. That being the case, can workers whose companies are asking them to come back take this as an opportunity to negotiate their arrangement? Experts say it's a good time to negotiate your work arrangement if coming back to the office will impact your productivity.

☆ New U.S. cancer drug prices rise 53% in five years -report
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Deena Beasley | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

"I do think there is a possibility we see launch prices go up," she said. Reuters GraphicsPorter, who championed inflation-based caps on drug prices, is calling for additional national legislation to link launch prices to how well a drug works. The report found that the average launch price of a self-administered cancer drug, after adjusting for inflation, rose by nearly 26% to $238,000 between 2017 and 2021. By 2022, six out of the eight newly-launched oral cancer drugs had prices over $200,000 per year. Based on current trends, the report calculated that by 2026, when Medicare will first be able to negotiate drug prices, the average self-administered cancer drug launch price will be nearly $325,000 per year and over $525,000 for pills and biologics.

☆ I work remotely, but my co-workers are returning to the office—here's what career experts told me to do
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

I started at CNBC in September 2020, and like everyone else on my team, I was working remotely. I interacted with my coworkers over Slack and Zoom, and it was months before I saw any of them from the shoulders down. For another, NBCUniversal asked that their employees begin returning to the office — three days a week in the case of my team. "The fear is out of sight, out of mind," says Stacie Haller, a career expert at ResumeBuilder.com. "You want to make sure you're in the mix and on an even playing field with your co-workers."

☆ There’s a New Menace Stalking Suburbia. Meet the McBasement.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( E.B. Solomont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When Sterling McDavid’s parents bought a roughly 9,000-square-foot home on Aspen’s Red Mountain, the 33-year-old interior designer directed the architect and contractors to start digging. Limited by zoning above ground, Ms. McDavid, who led the renovation, envisioned an expansive basement with a world-class gym, guest suites and hotel-caliber spa for her parents, former college track star Stacie McDavid, and David McDavid, a former owner of the Dallas Mavericks and car-dealership mogul.

Latinos are underrepresented in the media industry workforce across film, radio, television, newspapers and digital platforms, according to the report. Latinos are 19% of the nation's population, almost 1 in 5 Americans, and 18% of workers outside the media industry. The largest percentage of Hispanic media industry workers were employed in service worker positions (19%) — which include food, cleaning and personal and protective services, according to the latest available reports submitted by media companies to the U.S. In positions that can influence the content audiences consume, Latinos were far less represented: They made up only 7% of professional media industry positions such as actors, producers, directors, writers, reporters and editors. When Latinos did see themselves represented in content, they felt "it was inaccurate" in most cases, de Armas said.

☆ The Inflation Reduction Act aims to lower drug costs — but here’s how Big Pharma could get around it
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Berkeley-Lovelace-Jr.Jpg | Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

The Inflation Reduction Act is set to lower drug prices for millions of people in the United States — but experts fear pharmaceutical companies could exploit loopholes in the bill, ultimately keeping prescription costs high for many. The tactics may ultimately threaten the law’s ability to lower drug costs for consumers. Higher prices for new drugsOther experts are concerned about how companies might abuse the inflation rebate rule in the health law. The provision, which takes effect next year, imposes a rebate on drug manufacturers that raise the prices of their medications faster than inflation. By releasing new drugs at higher prices, drug companies will be able to make up for any lost revenue that they would normally receive from steadily raising prices each year, she said.

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