For years, King Charles was preparing to step into the role of monarch following Queen Elizabeth's history-making reign. In the meantime, he was holding down another job: Owner of a profitable business.
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John Lewis Partnership — which owns supermarkets, departments stores and provides banking services — announced on Wednesday that it would offer free food to all employees, including temporary staff and agency workers, during working hours for three months starting October.
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PepsiCo (PEP) has been reducing sugar and trans fats across its portfolio to appeal to health-conscious consumers. It sees the demand for small packages as part of the healthy-eating trend.
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Move follows ice-cream brand’s decision to stop selling in Palestinian territories as it was ‘inconsistent’ with its values
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Revlon, the 90-year-old cosmetics giant, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because of its crippling debt and mounting celebrity competition.
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"Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week," Musk said in the email."If you don't show up, we will assume you have resigned."
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Elon Musk tweeted that his $44-billion deal for Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) was “temporarily on hold†on Friday while he waits for data on the proportion of its fake accounts, sending shares in the social media platform plunging.
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EasyJet plans to remove seats on some of its planes this summer, so that it can operate flights with fewer cabin crew.
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Amazon will reimburse staff in the US who travel for a wide range of non-life threatening medical treatments including elective abortions.
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Labourers at the one of the world’s largest egg factories arrived at the plant in Rembrandt, Iowa, early one morning in March to discover they were about to work themselves out of a job.
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Twitter's board has armed itself against a possible hostile takeover - a day after billionaire Elon Musk made a $43bn (£33bn) offer to buy the platform.
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Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year. He listed the NFT for sale again at $48 million last week.It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280
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Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Friday called for an election re-run after workers at a New York City warehouse voted to create the company's first U.S. union, saying that the U.S. labor board and worker-organizers suppressed turnout.
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Days after Staten Island center became first to unionize,Amazon employees could be banned from writing words including 'union', 'pay rise' and 'plantation' to avoid 'negative sentiment'
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A team of Amazon workers has forced the technology giant to recognise a trade union in the US for the first time.
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Intel Corp (INTC.O) Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger earned 1,711 times as much as the average worker at the U.S. chipmaker in just 11 months since he joined in February last year, a regulatory filing showed on Wednesday.
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For marginalized groups like women and people of color, achieving career success can be much harder than it is for others. Representation in the workplace amongst these groups is also a major issue in fields like tech and cryptocurrency.
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Workers in Belgium will soon be able to choose a four-day week under a series of labour market reforms announced on Tuesday.
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Disney says trips to its US theme parks have surged, while subscriptions to its streaming service beat expectations.Disney says trips to its US theme parks have surged, while subscriptions to its streaming service beat expectations.
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Destiny studio will remain multiplatform, able "to self-publish and reach players wherever they choose to play"
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South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution has jumped in its stock market debut after becoming the country's biggest ever share offering.
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Netflix investors have been worried that the company isn’t adding subscribers fast enough — and today, they started to panic. After Netflix reported lower than projected subscriber additions for the final quarter of 2021, its stock plummeted nearly 20 percent.
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At least eight people died in the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory. Its destruction has become a symbol of the tornado's ruinous power.
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A coalition of Amazon warehouse workers in New York City have officially filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday.
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Spanx, one of America's most prominent shapewear companies, is now worth $1.2 billion after inking a deal with Blackstone.
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There will be no state unemployment benefits for health care workers who are fired for refusing to get employer-mandated vaccinations against COVID-19, state officials said Thursday.
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Workers left their jobs at a record pace in August, with bar and restaurant employees as well as retail staff quitting in droves, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.
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The pandemic was a boon for billionaires. It grew their collective wealth and helped more people join their ranks. For the first time, the world has more than 3,000 billionaires, according to a new report from research firm Wealth-X making the pandemic a 'windfall to billionaire wealth'.
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There are benefits to becoming a fully-remote organization. A top example is that the talent pool now goes national, or even international. Organizations are no longer limited to recruiting employees from a given radius to their offices. Asynchronous work helps to open the door for employees to work across time zones to get projects and deliverables completed in time.
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Singapore-based farmer Chua Kai-Ning spends a lot of her day making sure that her animals are well fed and growing fast.
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An entire whisky distillery is being shipped out from Scotland to China on Friday.
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That’s what parents are calling on Amazon to do after a teenage girl named Alexa legally changed her name after being bullied for having the same name as Amazon’s smart speaker assistant.
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Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they'll run out of people to employ, according to a new report
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Shares of Lyft, Uber and DoorDash dropped sharply Thursday after Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh told Reuters in an interview that gig workers should be classified as company employees.
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Cryptocurrency backers have spent years insisting that bitcoin, ethereum and other digital coins could revolutionize the world of finance. Finally, they're getting their moment.
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Kim Kardashian West is joining the ranks of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other moguls: She is officially a billionaire, according to Forbes.
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Many college students have had their post-graduation plans completely disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. For one entrepreneurial pair, however, the uncertainty created an opportunity to start their own internship matchmaking business.
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Budweiser will not be running a commercial during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.Instead, the Anheuser-Busch InBev beer will use the marketing dollars to support Covid-19 vaccine awareness and access.
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Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma made his first public appearance since October on Wednesday when he spoke to a group of teachers by video, easing concern about his unusual absence from the limelight and sending shares in the e-commerce giant surging.
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For more than 200 years, Savile Row in London’s elegant Mayfair district has been the place to go for discerning men in search of the perfect, tailor-made suit.
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In 2019, The Walt Disney Company closed the mega-acquisition of 21st Century Fox and bestrode the box office like the Hulk.
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Google will reimburse employees up to $1,000 to pay for equipment to help them work from home, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote to employees on Tuesday.
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'Everybody will love it': A four-day work week could help rebuild Canada's economy post-COVID-19, experts say.Could long weekends actually boost productivity, make people happier and help the post-corona recovery? Now's the time to consider options
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A California state panel on Friday rejected a request from Elon Musk’s SpaceX for $655,500 in state job and training funds, citing the chief executive’s recent threats to move Tesla, the electric carmaker that he also runs, out of the state.
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The factory in Fremont, California, has been offline since March, and Musk is willing to be arrested as the company defies local orders.
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Disney to stop paying 100,000 workers but is still on track to give shareholders $1.5 billion.Move will save company up to $500 million a month. Theme parks and hotels have already been closed for almost five weeks.
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