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Amazon has become the latest major company to order staff to return to the office five days a week, effectively ending working from home at the $1.99 trillion tech giant. Just like JPMorgan, Boots, and Goldman Sachs’ bosses, Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy cited strengthening company culture as one of the main reasons behind raising its in-office requirements from three days to full-time. However, a new report from PwC suggests that the move to full-time in-office work could have a different effect than the one intended. The Big Four accounting firm conducted 13 months of research and surveyed over 20,000 business...

After more than two years of fighting against return-to-office mandates, workers are fed up with their bosses’ inflexible policies and are taking their battle to court. Zacchery Belval, a designer from Connecticut who has congenital heart disease and severe anxiety, was fired after refusing to return to the office. Despite submitting several doctor’s notices about his medical need to work from home, his employer denied his request citing in-person job duties. Now, he’s suing the company in the U.S. District Court of Connecticut. “They just said either you come back … or you’re fired,” Belval said. “It was literally screaming...

Dec 18 (Reuters) - CNN is closing its offices in the United States to all nonessential employees as COVID-19 cases increase, the network said on Saturday in an internal memo to staff seen by Reuters. CNN, part of AT&T Inc's (T.N) WarnerMedia division, will close its offices to all employees who do not have work in the office, the memo said.... ...The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The network had set a tentative return-to-office date in January and it isn't known if that date will move, the Journal reported....

...There’s an intuitive assumption – encouraged by lockdown memories of rush-hour quiet and dissipated smog – that remote work is de facto better for the environment. But it’s not yet clear how radically shifting the way business is done will alter the climate impacts of doing business... ...IEA’s analysis suggests workers who use public transport or drive less than four miles each way could actually increase their total emissions by working from home... ... Will remote work mean they move from city apartments to sprawling suburban homes, which use, on average, three times more energy? Will they buy cars? Will...

Several Florida teachers who received special permission to work from home due to coronavirus-related health concerns were found traveling and attending mass gatherings. At an arbitration hearing this weekend, Broward County Public Schools brought forward evidence—including pictures posted to public social media accounts—that teachers who were granted permission to work from home because of the coronavirus pandemic had attended parties and other crowded events last fall. One teacher flew to a wedding in Jamaica, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and another took a selfie at an October rally for then-candidate Joe Biden. The hearing resolved a Broward Teachers Union...

Dozens of federal employees at an obscure agency that handles appeals of patent applications went years with so little work to do that they collected salaries — and even bonuses — while they surfed the Internet, did laundry, exercised and watched television, an investigation has found. The employees, paralegals making $60,000 to $80,000 a year, were idle with full knowledge of their immediate bosses and multiple layers of managers and judges who “sat on their hands” waiting for work to give them, a year-long probe by the Commerce Department inspector general’s office uncovered. The underworked paralegals did little as a...

EDISON — The husband of an AT&T manager who died from a blood clot after sitting at her desk for more than 10 hours one night is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, an appellate court ruled today. In 2007, Cathleen Renner, who worked for the communications giant for 25 years, died from a clot in her lung about an hour after she finished working a long, sedentary shift at her computer in her home office in Edison, the ruling states. "There’s an awful lot of people that do nothing but sit in front of computers for work these days, and...

Many people wear military camouflage as a fashion statement, but not many can say they've worn the real fatigues of an American service member. Now a local business woman is giving new life to retired uniforms. Eve Baum moved to Central Pennsylvania from Canada six years ago. Armed with a degree in fashion design, she started a small handbag business from home. But she says "something" was missing. "I was doing some life searching," Baum said. "I wanted to do something with a purpose." In 2007, that purpose came in the form of a local soldier who wanted to honor...

It's a new year and time for a new thread. If you're looking for a job and/or a career; this is the thread for you -- so bookmark it and tell others about this thread. Updates will be ongoing.

Here's the good news: We have this thread that will keep on growing. Here's the bad news: Not everyone knows about this thread. So, enough of this chit-chat; let's look at jobs and careers. Start here now.

February 4, 2009 Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel09/workathomescams020309.htm FBI: Don’t be Fooled by Work-at-Home Scams The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continue to receive numerous complaints from individuals who have fallen victim to work-at-home scams and remind consumers to be vigilant when seeking employment online. These work-at-home schemes are designed by criminals to gain the trust of job seekers in order to take advantage of working relationships to further illegal activity. Most victims do not even realize they are engaging in criminal behavior until it is too late. In many of the reported scams,...

I recently lost my job, and, as a single mother of five kids, I am wondering if any Freepers know of work at home/telecommute opportunities that are worthwhile. There are lots of scams out there!

FReepers are great when it comes to opinions so I thought I would ask all of you some questions. My husband lost his job a few months ago and I lost my job over the summer. We have been contemplating trying to sell items on-line and at times the thought of using a "drop-ship" company has come up. Do any of you have experience with drop-ship companies? We have read so many reviews and the reviews are so varied. It is not always easy to tell if reviews are written by people working for those companies or if it is...

Anyone familar with this company and if so, how much does something like this pay? It is processing rebates at home on your computer. It does not say at the site but here is the link: http://www.cpginc.com/employment/us/homeworkerinfo.asp

Anyone ever hear of this company: http://www.freedomathometeam.com/swhite They sell dental plans, etc. and you work from home. I was just curious to know your opinions or if you had any knowledge about them as they have called me for an interview. Thanking you in advance.

There are so many work at home links when doing a search that my head is spinning. I am at the point of wanting to know if any of you know what might be legitimate. I do not want to do medical transcription but I can utilize secretarial skills in other ways. My kids need me at home at this time in their lives.

I am curious to know if any of you have ever done data entry work from your home processing rebates, etc. If you have done this, how is the pay? I thought this might be a good way to have some part time work and be at home with the kids. Thanks!!

Hi all, This is basically just a shot in the dark, but my husband and I are going to be moving soon and have our first baby due at the beginning of the year. I am looking for any kind of work that I can do from home to bring in some extra income. There are so many things advertised online, and I know a lot of them are hoaxes or not really any use for making money. I don't care if it's stuffing envelopes, though I can do a lot with computers. If any of you have experience or...

For about two months after I graduated from college, I went back home to my home town while I waited for my Army OBC reporting date. This was a fairly boring and uneventful two months except for one peculiarity. These two guys I knew but wasn't really buddy-buddy with in High School, I'll call them Huey and Louie, kept trying to get me interested in this phenominal opportunity. This phenominal opportunity was something called "interactive marketing." This was the current euphemism for AMWAY. These guys had been duped into joining a pyramid scheme and now were looking for a way...

Earn up to $800 a week assembling refrigerator magnets at home, the advertisements declared. The government says a Bradford County couple who did the advertising duped 30,000 people into investing in a work-at-home scam. The Federal Trade Commission filed a civil complaint recently in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in Scranton against Misty and William Stafford of Gillett as part of a crackdown against more than 200 businesses nationally. The businesses falsely presented work-at-home opportunities and other dubious business activities that bilked consumers out of $100 million, the government announced Tuesday. The FTC, Justice Department, U.S....