By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman CHICAGO, May 26 (Reuters) — Merck & Co Inc, which has largely kept to the sidelines of the race for COVID-19 treatments, said it was buying Austrian vaccine maker Themis Bioscience and would collaborate with research nonprofit IAVI to develop two separate vaccines. It also announced a partnership with […]
As the current crisis deepens and economies around the world brace for recession, COVID-19 continues to cripple people’s health and livelihoods.
Companies are racing to conserve cash, leading to some of the deepest staff cuts for decades.
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“You don’t know what you don’t know.” This saying could not be more true right now as the coronavirus continues to impact every aspect of life: how we live, work, and interact with each other. What we do know is that the act…
Everyone I know from my community, and most that I know from any marginalized community (people of color, women, LGBTQ, differently abled), has heard some form of the two adages, “Last hired, first fired,” and “You have to be twice…
Recently, the world has seen a dramatic overhaul of our usual ways of life. People are suddenly working from home and many children have cut their school year short. Needless to say, what the future holds is uncertain.
It’s no wonder that 69%&#x…
One of COVID-19’s legacies has been turning the labor market from one of the lowest unemployment rates in history to one of the highest. Within a matter of weeks, millions of people filed for unemployment benefits. And companies that were worrie…
One of COVID-19’s legacies has been turning the labor market from one of the lowest unemployment rates in history to one of the highest. Within a matter of weeks, millions of people filed for unemployment benefits. And companies that were worrie…
The future of work is no longer a thing of the future. COVID-19 has accelerated—and in many ways redefined—what our present and future of work looks like. Spurred by the pandemic, up to half of Americans are now working from home, a trend…
Between protests over shelter-in-place orders and the ubiquitous shaming over whether people should or should not be wearing masks, it seems like everyone is outraged at how someone else is dealing with the coronavirus crisis.
Now that a significant po…
For many during quarantine, Zoom has replaced our “analog” lives. Yet the problem with spending inordinate hours on Zoom is, we’re staring at our screens more than ever before.
