November 20, 20240 Comments

MSF charity halts work in Port-au-Prince over attacks

The humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended its operations in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, following a violent attack on its staff and the alleged killing of two patients they were treating by Haitian police officers. The incident took place last week as violence continued to worsen in the country. An estimated 25 people were killed in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday alone in what police say was a foiled

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November 16, 20240 Comments

30-year-old took a pay cut to work for herself—and doesn’t regret it

In 2023, Anna-Marie Ortiz worked remotely for a fintech startup, where she earned $60,000 a year. She liked the job well enough, but wasn’t sure what her future at the company would look like. “I realized I can’t wait around for other people’s dreams, and that’s when I decided to go all in on mine,” she tells CNBC Make It. That July, Ortiz used the last of her $2,000 in

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November 11, 20240 Comments

People who work from home get more sleep and exercise

Homeworkers are using the time saved by not commuting to stay longer in bed, new figures suggest. They got an average of 24 minutes extra “sleep and rest” and spent an additional 15 minutes on things such as exercise, compared with people who worked away from their homes. The snapshot survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found people working from home gained almost an hour on average from

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