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Across the nation, workplaces have been the source of major coronavirus outbreaks — largely among the so-called essential workers who bear the brunt of COVID infections and deaths.

The fortune of Slack’s billionaire co-founder and chief executive officer increased about $400 million from reports this week that Salesforce is considering taking over the workplace chat tool.

Under its proposed rules, most companies listed on Nasdaq’s U.S. exchange would have to include at least one director who identifies as female and one who identifies as an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ.

The Slack deal would give Salesforce, the leader in programs for managing customer relationships, another angle of attack against Microsoft, which has itself become a major force in internet-based computing.

Women of all races and income groups are less likely to bargain for raises than men.

Adobe joins Citigroup, Starbucks and Mastercard in disclosing this kind of information, which measures the pay of women and men across all job classifications no matter their role in the company.

The New York-based bank, which has about 200,000 employees worldwide, wants to see how productivity changes over longer stretches of time and whether creativity suffers before deciding how much working from home to allow.

Event organizers and companies ponder the consequences of hosting in-person events too soon.

Whether it’s because they have COVID-19 themselves, are worried about getting it or are taking care of someone who already has it, the number of workers who’ve missed days on the job has doubled in the pandemic.

The unionizing effort, a rare campaign within a major U.S. technology company, is supported by the Communications Workers of America as part of a recent tech-focused initiative.