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Working from home? You’re not working as much as you think 08/16/2021 11:04am • Professionals with typical desk jobs who are now working from home need breaks from their computer screens, but when asked how much time they spend on those breaks during a typical work day, most at-home workers aren’t aware of how much time they’re not working. The average answer, according 5 tools to help your remote-work business click 08/12/2021 07:00am • Pre-pandemic, working from home was often considered a perk rather than a requirement. But once COVID-19 struck, many companies shifted to a remote-first work environment — a change that’s now permanent in some cases. Recent Gallup research data shows that, on average, 52% of all workers, inclu COVID vaccines to be required for military under new US plan 08/10/2021 12:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the U.S. military will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine beginning next month under a plan laid out by the Pentagon and endorsed by President Joe Biden. In memos distributed to all troops, top Pentagon leaders said the vaccine is a necessary step to maintain mili COVID vaccines to be required for military under new US plan 08/09/2021 06:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the U.S. military will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine beginning next month under a plan laid out by the Pentagon Monday and endorsed by President Joe Biden. In memos distributed to all troops, top Pentagon leaders said the vaccine is a necessary step to mainta EXPLAINER: 5 key takeaways from the July jobs report 08/06/2021 04:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Even in a July jobs report that was nearly universally hailed as a good one, pockets of weakness and concern are still clouding the celebration. The numbers in the report were certainly strong, with employers adding 943,000 more jobs to their payrolls than they cut, a better hiring DC-area colleges detail vaccination, return-to-campus plans for fall 08/06/2021 05:55am • Major D.C.-area universities are releasing their return-to-campus plans for the upcoming fall semester, signaling a return to in-person instruction more than a year after coronavirus restrictions drove students to online learning. American University American University is requiring all students a Traffic continues to grow on DC-area highways following pandemic plunge 08/04/2021 10:50pm • New data shows traffic on the D.C. region's highways in May was not back to pre-pandemic levels, but it was getting close in some parts of the area. "I'm surprised by how fast, or how much that traffic volumes have recovered," said Tim Canan, Planning Data and Research Program Director for the Me Virus's impact: More relaxing and thinking, less socializing 07/23/2021 07:09am • SAN DIEGO (AP) — The eruption of COVID-19 last year caused the proportion of people working from home in the U.S. to nearly double, with the shift most pronounced among college graduates and workers in such fields as finance and professional services. The share of employed people working from home The long, 'surreal' days of the runaway Texas legislators 07/16/2021 12:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Sheltered in a downtown D.C. hotel, the Democratic lawmakers who left Texas to block a restrictive voting bill are living a life of stress and scrutiny. After bolting the state Monday in order to sabotage the bill by denying a quorum in the Texas House of Representatives, the m The long, 'surreal' days of the runaway Texas legislators 07/15/2021 11:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Sheltered in a downtown D.C. hotel, the Democratic lawmakers who left Texas to block a restrictive voting bill are living a life of stress and scrutiny. After bolting the state Monday in order to sabotage the bill by denying a quorum in the Texas House of Representatives, the m Union employees at U.Md. want to keep telework policy 07/13/2021 09:05pm • Thousands of employees at the University of Maryland are pushing to keep a broad telework policy in place until September. Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1072 rallied outside of the university's main administration building on Tuesday, and delive Watchdog: 2 Trump EPA appointees defrauded agency of $130K 07/09/2021 04:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two high-ranking Trump political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency engaged in fraudulent payroll activities — including payments to employees after they were fired and to one of the officials when he was absent from work — that cost the agency more than $130,0 Is Thursday the new Monday? Flexible working is in flux 07/08/2021 02:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Last year, companies around the U.S. scrambled to figure out how to shut down their offices and set up their employees for remote work as the COVID-19 virus suddenly bore down on the world. Now, in a mirror image, they are scrambling to figure out how to bring many of those employe Here's how to design drug trials to defeat the next pandemic 07/04/2021 09:09am • Dr. Myron Cohen began his career fighting HIV in the early 1980s, and he's been battling the epidemic around the world ever since. But he has never worked as hard to generate new therapies and save lives as he has during the Covid-19 crisis. "Desperation or urgency can push us away from the scien EXPLAINER: 5 key takeaways from the June jobs report 07/02/2021 02:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market is storming into summer. Job creation and wages rose sharply in June. And more and more Americans are confident enough to quit their jobs and look for a better one. In the strongest gain since August, employers added 850,000 jobs last month. And average wages