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Films and the white-collar workplace

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.The office is not the most promising setting for films. Desk warriors can...

Customer service is getting worse—and so are customers

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Rare is the company today that does not claim to be “customer-centric”. Anyone...

What if Hollywood blockbusters were remade as workplace dramas?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.The office is not the most promising setting for films. Desk warriors can...

Pharma’s big push for a new generation of obesity drugs

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.FIVE YEARS ago Novo Nordisk was a boring Danish drugmaker whose diabetes medications...

Can Europe’s power grid cope with the green transition?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.“More Energiewende, more business for us,” says Leonhard Birnbaum, chief executive of E.ON,...

Ties between foreign businesses and China go from bad to worse

THE RANKS of foreign businesspeople in Shanghai are much depleted these days. Those who remain closely monitor the comings and goings of multinational executives. So all eyes were on the Bund Summit,...

Hollywood’s strike enters its final act, as writers reach a deal

Dust-sheets cover the sets inside one soundproofed Hollywood studio, as placard-wielding writers and actors make as much noise as they can outside. The covers have been on since May, when America’s writers...

Will the auto workers’ strike jeopardise Joe Biden’s manufacturing boom?

STANTON, TENNESSEE, looks like a place from a bygone age. The town hall quaintly resembles a 1960s grocery store. Next door is a cannery, where townsfolk use communal stoves to make soups...

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