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☆ In pictures: India records 'longest' heatwave, Delhi faces water crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Charmaine Jacob | In Charmainemariajacob | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

People filling water in plastic cans from a water supply tanker at Chanakyapuri, Delhi on June 12, 2024. India's capital Delhi is facing a severe water crisis as the country undergoes its "longest spell" of recorded heatwave. "Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions [are] likely to continue over northern parts of India during next 4-5 days," IMD said in a release. The highest daily temperature in Delhi has consecutively surpassed 40°C since May 12, weather forecasting site AccuWeather showed. Other parts of India were not spared, with temperatures in some cities touching 47.5°C on Thursday.

Persons: Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Atishi Organizations: India's Meteorological Department, IMD, Indian Express, Economic Times, World Meteorological Organization Locations: Chanakyapuri, Delhi, India's, India, Mungeshpur, South, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Asia

☆ Wells Fargo fired employees accused of faking work. It shows some bosses are cracking down on disengagement.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewWells Fargo's decision to fire reportedly more than a dozen workers it accused of faking work shows some bosses are done tolerating disengaged employees. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Related storiesThe filings, however, do not say whether the fired employees were allegedly faking work from home. Wells Fargo states on its website that many of its corporate workers are eligible to work hybrid roles. Only about one in three full- and part-time workers reported being engaged in the first quarter of 2024, according to Gallup.

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☆ The job market is strong but competitive, says economist—how to land a role right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The labor market is cooling, but this slowdown doesn't equate to an easier hunt for job seekers. There were about 1.2 job openings per unemployed worker in April, down from a ratio of two openings per person about two years ago. People might feel burned out or frustrated searching for a new job due to lingering expectations from the red-hot job markets of 2021 and 2022. But there are signs that the U.S. job market is strong despite economic headwinds like higher interest rates, Nela Richardson, ADP's chief economist, tells CNBC Make It. Job openings continue to trend toward pre-pandemic levels and the national unemployment rate is under 4%, a historically low mark.

Persons: Nela Richardson, Richardson Organizations: U.S . Bureau of Labor Statistics, LinkedIn, CNBC Locations: U.S

☆ A man born in Japan — where tipping is rude — is part of a growing number of Americans rejecting tipping in the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Still, back in the US, he recognized the argument that low-paid workers in the service industry have traditionally relied on tips to earn a living wage. Ozeki never ordered food for deliveryBut he said that recent increases in the minimum wage have changed the landscape — at least in certain states. AdvertisementIn California, for example, the minimum wage for fast-food workers rose by law this year from $16 to $20 an hour. "The current minimum wage at a fast food place is higher than my starting salary 15 years ago," Ozeki said. Have you seen your tips dip recently as a service industry worker?

Persons: —, Ken, Ted Rossman, Rossman, jridley@businessinsider.com Organizations: Service, Business, Franciscan Locations: Japan, California

☆ Gen Zers are obsessed with Aritzia's $148 Effortless Pant. Uniqlo's 'work uniforms' are Asia's budget answer to it — at a fraction of the price.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The pleated, wide-leg pant costs $148 a pop and is offered in a variety of colors, lengths, and materials. So the Effortless Pant may have become 2024's work uniform for young working women in North America. That means that for the price of one Aritzia Effortless Pant, a Uniqlo shopper over in Asia can purchase an entire work outfit. Related storiesIt even used the term "SG uniform" on its Instagram, in a video that is captioned: "Styling the SG Uniform: Our AIRism Cotton Oversized Crew Neck tee is the essential T-shirt redefined." Young office workers in China, for instance, are ditching the work uniform entirely to rebel against low pay and grueling working hours.

Persons: —, Pant, pant, Lyst, Rick Owens, Richard Thompson Ford, Forbes, Zers, Aritzia didn't Organizations: Service, Business, Wall Street Journal, Uniqlo Locations: North America, Asia, Singapore, Stanford, Pant, China

☆ Unhappy workers may reduce global GDP by as much as 9%, Gallup estimates
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Gallup, in its “State of the Global Workplace,” estimates that low employee engagement costs the global economy $8.9 trillion, or 9% of global GDP. That poll found that roughly 20% of workers globally reported feeling lonely, angry or sad on a daily basis. “[W]hen managers are engaged, employees are more likely to be engaged,” the report said. But the US and Canada also ranked second among employees experiencing daily stress (49%), right behind the Middle East and North Africa (52%). And countries in post-Soviet Eurasia ranked lowest in terms of daily stress (19%).

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☆ We finally have some evidence that California's new $20 fast food wage is hurting business
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Restaurants raised prices to offset the new wageCalifornia raised its minimum wage for workers at limited-service restaurants to $20 an hour on April 1. To offset their higher labor costs, restaurants have raised prices, turned to technology and automation like order kiosks, and considered reducing their opening hours. In-N-Out told KTVU that it had raised prices "incrementally" on April 1. Californian residents are divided: Some acknowledge that fast food is a tough gig and support the new minimum wage, while others say it will push prices up too much.

Persons: —, Burger King, Hottovy, Jack Organizations: Service, Golden State, Business Locations: Burger, California, Golden, Placer.ai, McDonald's

☆ What Trump told CEOs in their private meeting
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Trump also mentioned to the CEOs a recent proposal he rolled out in Nevada, to eliminate taxes on worker tips. Trump then told the CEOs a story about how excited tipped workers were about his proposal, prompting laughter from the corporate leaders, according to multiple sources. Trump spoke for about an hour at the Business Roundtable's quarterly meeting. For Trump and the CEOs who attended, the meeting represented an effort to mend relations after some have distanced themselves from the former president. Trump told a meeting full of House Republicans earlier in the day about the idea of imposing an "all tariff policy" that would ultimately enable the U.S. to get rid of the income tax.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Tim Cook, Jamie Dimon, Jane Fraser, Brian Moynihan, Joe Biden's, Jeff Zients, Cook Organizations: National Republican, Committee, Business, Apple, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, CNBC, Representatives, Trump, Capitol Hill, Biden, Republicans Locations: Washington , DC, Washington, Nevada, Charlottesville, Va

☆ Inside Henrik Fisker's second failed automotive startup
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

AdvertisementA Fisker spokesperson said it would be "unfair" to compare the two companies. A Fisker spokesperson denied comments that Henrik took on a more passive role and said he was "deeply involved." AdvertisementA Fisker spokesperson said Magna was responsible for testing and releasing the Ocean and it had been fully certified by regulators in the US and Europe. But in the year since the Ocean's release, the company has delivered around 7,000 vehicles, a Fisker spokesperson said. A Fisker spokesperson pushed back on the comments questioning Henrik's business prowess.

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☆ Factory Farming and Bird Flu Are a Troublesome Mix - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( David Quammen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A dairy worker in Texas contracts H5N1 bird flu after contact with infected cows, and suffers eye inflammation. Weeks later, a dairy worker in Michigan begins to cough and then tests positive for the virus. These data and other recent cases of H5N1 suggest that the virus might be evolving to spread more easily to — and among — people. One implication is that while U.S. health authorities say the risk to the general public remains low, that risk could increase quickly. For instance, why isn’t blood testing for signs of the virus among dairy workers now mandatory in all U.S. dairy operations?

Persons: Weeks, petri, It’s Organizations: U.S . Department of Agriculture, Centers for Disease Control Locations: Texas, Michigan

☆ 66% of Americans give companies a failing grade for CEO pay
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —Americans are fed up with massive CEO pay packages. Just 13% say companies are doing a good or excellent job at avoiding a major pay gap between CEOs and average employees. For the third year in a row, the vast majority – 66% — say companies are doing a “poor” job here. Politically, the majority of Democrats (96%), independents (83%) and Republicans (67%) agree that it’s important to avoid major pay gaps. The findings show how the issue of CEO pay strikes a chord among many Americans, some of whom are struggling to make ends meet in an increasingly expensive world.

Persons: Gallup, ”, Nell Minow, Elon Musk, Tesla, “, Cynthia Clark, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, “ It’s, Bill George, Medtronic, Hock Tan, William Lansing, George, Dave Calhoun, Dodd, Frank, Clark, ” Minow, Minow Organizations: New, New York CNN, Bentley University, Gallup, CNN, ValueEdge Advisors, Associated Press, “, Democrats, Sens, Broadcom, Harvard Business School, Boeing, Congress Locations: New York, ”

☆ Why 4 new bird flu developments have experts worried about the virus
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewBird flu is flying wild, and it has many infectious disease experts more worried now than ever. The H5N1 avian influenza virus has killed tens of millions of birds across the planet and more than 40,000 sea lions and seals. Most people seem to have very little chance, if any, of catching H5N1 avian influenza right now. Jim Vondruska/ReutersBut infectious disease experts are increasingly concerned that the H5N1 virus could make a sustained jump into humans and start spreading among us. This virus is a leading candidate for the next pandemic, and four developments in the past month have experts worried.

Persons: —, Jim Vondruska, That's, Dr, Monica Gandhi, Bird, WHO —, Christopher Dye, Dye, David L, Ryan, Gandhi, Tayfun, Rick Bright, Cynthia Goldsmith, Jackie Katz, Richard Webby, Jude, Talita, Lima Freitas, Amanda Perobelli, Marko Geber, Terry Chea, they've Organizations: Service, CDC, Business, Global Medicine, University of California, Health Organization, WHO, University of Oxford, Boston Globe, Getty, US Department of Agriculture, Anadolu Agency, The Telegraph, Biomedical, Research, Development Authority, AP, Centre, Studies, Reference Laboratory, World Organization for Animal Health, Vaccines, University of Pennsylvania Locations: Luz, Monee , Illinois, San Francisco, Australia, Kolkata, India, New Mexico, New York, St, Michigan, Campinas, Brazil

☆ American Power Shift: CEOs, Average Employees Live in Different Cities
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Ned Resnikoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Given this truism, it's no wonder that the populations of America's so-called superstar cities have stagnated while the Sun Belt's metropolitan areas have boomed. The COVID-era transition to more remote work accelerated this process of "domestic offshoring," a recent study by the workforce-analytics company ADP found. Domestic offshoring regionally segregates middle- and working-class employees from their employers, making it far more difficult for the former group to advance professionally. Domestic offshoring threatens to lock in these effects, potentially costing the country trillions of dollars in forgone wealth creation. But if domestic offshoring persists, fewer of the city's other residents will be middle-class professionals; those people will tend to congregate in domestic-offshoring sites.

Persons: Austin, Chang, Tai Hsieh, Enrico Moretti, Ned Resnikoff Organizations: Sun, Orlando, America, —, Companies, Workers Locations: California, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Jacksonville , Florida, Raleigh , North Carolina, Texas , Arizona, Florida, Austin, Raleigh, Charlotte, North Carolina, America's, Nashville, Bay, Tennessee, New York City, San Francisco and New York

☆ Adobe employees slam the company over AI controversy: 'Let's avoid becoming like IBM'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The company had to quell those concerns with a blog post denying this. But some Adobe employees are still not happy with the response, and they are calling for improved communication with customers. According to screenshots of an internal Slack channel, obtained by Business Insider, Adobe employees complained about the company's poor response to the controversy and demanded a better long-term communication plan. Advertisement"We've never trained generative AI on customer content, taken ownership of a customer's work, or allowed access to customer content beyond legal requirements. Some employees applauded Adobe's effort to use language that is easier to understand in the blog post.

Persons: —, Adobe, Slack, We've, Scott Belsky, Belsky Organizations: Service, Business, Adobe, IBM, Software, YouTube

☆ Muggings, Murders and Mob Justice: Violent Crime Roars Back in Karachi
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Zia Ur-Rehman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The terrifying stories are sprawled across local newspapers and recounted in hushed tones at tea stalls and bus stands: another day, another brutal death during an armed robbery in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. Last Wednesday, a car mechanic was shot dead by muggers trying to steal his phone. A few days earlier, robbers killed a 27-year-old mechanical engineer, stealing his phone, cash and motorcycle. Across Karachi, Pakistan’s economic powerhouse, the rate of violent crime has soared. The country’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, has called for a “large-scale operation” against the street criminals.

Persons: muggers, Asif Ali Zardari, mugging, ”, Shamim Ali Locations: Karachi, Pakistan’s

☆ Gen Zers are starting to tease Gen Alpha tweens, saying they have a 'blue light stare'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But Gen Z has a new target: Gen Alpha. Zoomers are starting to tease Gen Alpha tweens, saying they are stunted when it comes to socializing because of what they say is their addiction to screens. Nicholas Drake, a content creator, described the blue light stare as a "nonchalant, just unbothered look on their face." A TikToker called Hannah said she was recently served by a "Gen Alpha kid" and that the "blue light stare is so real." Terms such as "blue light stare," Varbanova said, "makes people feel more in control."

Persons: —, boomers, Gen Z, Alpha, Gen Alpha tweens, They've, Gen Alpha, Nicholas Drake, They're, Zers, Katya Varbanova, Lyndsey, Hannah, Flora Wells, Brenda Christensen, Christensen, Wells, Gen, Varbanova Organizations: Service, Business, Stellar Public, Inc, Alpha Locations: millennials

☆ I had a miscarriage in my 20s and it confirmed what I always knew: I didn't want to be a mom
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Becky Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Becky Martin grew up surrounded by kids and didn't think she could balance her career and motherhood. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I spent my teens babysitting cousins and knew from a young age that parenthood was far from sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows. Back then, when I thought about parenthood, I couldn't imagine balancing my career — centered on working with kids — while still being an ever-present mom. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Becky Martin, — Organizations: Service, Business

☆ OpenAI ex-employees worry about company's control over their millions of dollars in shares
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

However, current and former OpenAI employees have been increasingly concerned about access to liquidity, according to interviews and documents shared internally. "We're incredibly sorry that we're only changing this language now," an OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC after the company changed course. In at least two tender offers, the sales limit for former employees was $2 million, compared to $10 million for current employees. In addition to current and former employees, OpenAI has a third tier for share sales that consists of ex-employees who now work at competitors. OpenAI said it's never canceled a current or former employee's vested equity or required a repurchase at $0.

Persons: Sam Altman, Jason Redmond, OpenAI, Slack, Siri, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Altman's, Sarah Friar, Larry Albukerk, Albukerk, CNBC they've, it's, Doug Brayley Organizations: Microsoft, AFP, Getty, CNBC, Apple, Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department, Nvidia, OpenAI, EB Exchange, Ropes & Gray Locations: Redmond , Washington, OpenAI, California

☆ Every summer I live at camp with my kids. As a working mom, I don't have to think about logistics as much.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Brianna Bell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Last year, my husband was offered a job as a Camp Director at a small children's camp in remote Southwestern Ontario. Instead of worrying about paying for summer activities, our kids will spend leisurely summer days at the camp. Our kids sleep so much better at campOne of the most unexpected bonuses of summer camp life is our sleep habits. I'll gladly jump into the lake on a hot summer day with my girls or play a game of beach volleyball. When I go to bed at night, my pillow smells like a campfire, sunscreen, and sweat — all signs of a perfect day at summer camp.

Persons: —, I'm, dealbreaker, doesn't, we'll, I'd, I've, Brianna Bell, Brianna Organizations: Service, Business, The New York Times, Guardian, The Globe & Mail Locations: Southwestern Ontario, Toronto, Lake Huron, Canadian

☆ Opinion | There’s a Reason Trump Has Friends in High Places
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Among the features that distinguish capitalist society from its predecessors, the political theorist Ellen Meiksins Wood once observed, is “the differentiation of the economic and the political.”The state, Wood pointed out, “stands apart from the economy even though it intervenes in it,” so that everyone — owner and worker, boss and bossed — can claim ownership in it “without usurping the exploitative power of the appropriator.”Or as the philosopher Nancy Fraser puts it, “the power to organize production is privatized and devolved to capital” while the “task of governing ‘noneconomic’ orders, including those that supply the external conditions for accumulation, falls to public power, which alone may utilize the ‘political’ media of law and ‘legitimate’ state violence.”The upshot of this dynamic is that democracy under capitalism is necessarily of limited scope. We have the power and capacity to regulate and structure the market, but the fundamental questions — of production and surplus, of ownership and social reproduction — are beyond the reach of democratic decision-making as presently constituted.

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☆ CNBC Daily Open: Musk threatens Apple ban
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Abid Ali | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Technology stocks Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft boosted the indexes. Apple ban threatElon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies after Apple announced a partnership with OpenAI. Ailman suggested Musk should focus on one of his ventures and let professional managers handle Tesla's daily operations. The Taiwan Weighted index hit a record high, before paring back gains, as technology and utility stocks rose.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Goldman Sachs, Musk, Elon Musk's, Chris Ailman, CNBC's, Ailman, CalSTRS, Elliott, paring, Seng, Kospi, Morgan Stanley Organizations: New York Times DealBook, CNBC, Nasdaq, Technology, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Dow Jones, Apple, OpenAI, California State Teachers, Elliott, Southwest, Elliott Management, Southwest Airlines, Boeing, CSI, Nikkei Locations: New York City, U.S, Asia, Taiwan, Pacific

☆ 'Severance' star Britt Lower teases what to expect from season 2 of the Apple TV+ hit
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Apple TV+ just released a first look at "Severance" season 2. Star Britt Lower recently told Business Insider what to expect from the new season. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Advertisement"Severance" season two is on the horizon, and the scope of the sci-fi thriller's world is widening, according to one star. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Severance, Star Britt Lower, —, Adam Scott, they're, Scott, Mark S Organizations: Apple, Star, Tribeca, Service, Parks, Lumon Industries, Business

☆ Another Tesla shareholder came out against Elon Musk's multibillion-dollar pay package, saying the billionaire should 'focus on going to Mars'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewAnother major Tesla shareholder is publicly opposing Elon Musk's multibillion-dollar pay package just days before investors are set to vote on the enormous figure ahead of the automaker's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. AdvertisementDespite Musk's other endeavors, Tesla remains a car company — and the automaker's output and stock valuation should reflect that, Ailman said. He designed the cars," Ailman told the outlet. Proxy advisors are recommending investors vote no on the pay package, advice which Tesla's passive investors — about 20% of investors in total — are likely to follow, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi told BI. "He wants to go to Mars," Ailman told CNBC.

Persons: —, Elon Musk's, Christopher Ailman, Ailman, Tesla, Bernstein, Toni Sacconaghi, CalSTRS, Musk, Let's Organizations: Service, California State Teachers, CNBC, Business, Golden State, Tesla, Nvidia Locations: Delaware, California, Golden

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Apple upgrades Siri with AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Abid Ali | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Apple IntelligenceShares of Apple fell 1.9% after the iPhone maker delivered its long-awaited AI strategy. Siri will get an upgrade with Apple Intelligence and access to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Investors are concerned Apple had fallen behind its rivals, Microsoft and Google, in the race to deliver AI services and tools.

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☆ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Polling Surprisingly Well Among Latino Voters
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Donald J. Trump faced off in the 2020 presidential election, Alexis Figueroa, a hospital worker in Phoenix, would have voted for Mr. Biden, he said, because he seemed like the least controversial of the two candidates. But with those men back on the ballot in November, Mr. Figueroa is considering a third option: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.“He’s going after those who are new to voting, the younger generation not being heard,” Mr. Figueroa, now 20, said of Mr. Kennedy, adding that he did not want to vote for Mr. Biden because he did not believe that the president had fulfilled many of his promises. In a race in which enthusiasm for the top two contenders is low, more Latino voters like Mr. Figueroa are leaning toward third-party candidates, recent surveys show. Mr. Kennedy, who is running a long-shot independent presidential bid, is polling surprisingly well among Hispanic voters in battleground states, pollsters and political observers said, though so far he is officially on the ballot only in California, Utah, Michigan, Oklahoma, Hawaii and Delaware.

Persons: Joseph R, Biden, Donald J, Trump, Alexis Figueroa, Figueroa, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, “ He’s, ” Mr, Mr, Kennedy Organizations: Mr Locations: Phoenix, California , Utah , Michigan , Oklahoma, Hawaii, Delaware

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