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The pandemic has underscored the need for companies to "shift the where, when and who of work beyond their organizational walls."

After its costs for the drugs more than tripled over the past 18 months to about $5 million a month, the University of Texas System said it would end insurance coverage of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Saxenda for its employees and others covered by its health plans effective Sept. 1, according to the Wall Street Journal .

More than 75,000 nurses, pharmacists and other employees of the Kaiser Permanent health system walked off the job Wednesday in the largest U.S. healthcare strike in recent history, the Wall Street Journal reports .

Citi is one of many Wall Street firms that is increasingly pushing its employees back to the office and it will begin monitoring how effective its hybrid work policy is.

WorldatWork also obtained responses from 312 full-time business professionals via the Schlesinger Group panel online.

The renewed emphasis comes as Goldman’s Wall Street headquarters was described as “totally dead” on Fridays now that interns have gone and a large number of employees opt to work remotely to get an early start on the weekend, sources told the Post.  

Restaurant and trade groups said they have submitted enough voter signatures for a ballot measure to try to halt implementation of a new California law that would set minimum hourly wages for fast-food workers in the state starting next year, The Wall Street Journal reports .

Dissecting the Vote and the Commission At the time of the vote to rescind the appeals, the FTC had four active commissioners (three Republicans and one Democrat) on the five-seat panel, and the appeal-vote outcome (3-1) was purely on party lines.

I recently moderated a panel discussion on the challenges of managing the “extended workforce” — essentially guns for hire who, on balance, prefer flexibility and variety to the tedious certainty of a weekly paycheck.

The standard mileage rates, which took effect Jan. 1, apply for the use of a car, van, pickup or panel truck, and are the same whether the employee uses a gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicle or one that is fully electric or a gas-and-electric hybrid.