Hotels are closing as tourism plummets. This company is turning them into affordable housing: Repvblik takes unused commercial spaces and lets people live in them.
Fast Company
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? The Guardian asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for them from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace.
Ford, just admit it: You’re a truckmaker now
Fortune
CNBC: Google will try ‘hybrid’ work-from-home models, as most employees don’t want to come in every day
+ Most Google employees want to return to the office at some point, but not every day, according to a recent Google survey of its employees’ desires for post-pandemic work.
+ The company said it is working on ‘hybrid’ models for future work, including rearranging its offices, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview with Time Magazine Wednesday.
+ It also comes as Silicon Valley companies compete on flexible work options for existing and prospective talent.
FT: City of London abandons plans for widespread return to office
Peloton gets wake-up call with Amazon Prime bike scare: After a surge in demand from homebound fitness buffs, Peloton faces a raft of challenges and potentially stiff competition from heavy hitters. Sarah Halzack
FT/McKinsey business book of the year shortlist announced - click here.
What can business learn from Netflix’s ‘no rules’ culture? Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer’s ‘No Rules Rules’ offers a radical take on corporate culture.
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