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When Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that employees would be required to return to the office five days a week, he argued that in-person work would strengthen culture, collaboration, and innovation. Similar explanations have accompanied countless workplace decisions in recent years. Job cuts, pay freezes, and restructurings have routinely been packaged as opportunities for companies to become more agile, resilient, or future-ready. Whether these explanations are sincere or strategic, often bear only a passing resemblance to reality. The obvious question is: who even falls for statements that seem absurdly false or self-serving? According to new research out of Cornell University,...

Mandela Slams US For Dismissing Iraq Accepting Inspectors JOHANNESBURG (AP)--Former South African president Nelson Mandela Tuesday said the U.S. should not dismiss Iraq's acceptance of new U.N. weapons inspectors. "What right has (U.S. President George W. Bush) to come and say that that offer is not genuine. We must condemn that very strongly. That is why I criticize most leaders, all over the world, for keeping quiet when one country wants to bully the whole world," Mandela told reporters at a news conference at his house. Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been outspoken in his criticism of...