More than the half of the American companies plan to reduce their office space because of the remote work will become a common option even after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was reported by the Bloomberg, citing to the study by Cisco Systems. Agency interviewed 1,569 business leaders, employees of companies responsible for the organization of labor, as well as employees of the intellectual labor.
53% of the companies surveyed intend to reduce office space, and about 75% of companies will introduce more flexible work schedule. 90% of employees surveyed said they did not plan to return to the full-time employment in the office. 12% plan to work from home all the time, 24% – to work remotely on average more than 15 days a month, and 22% – work remotely for 8-15 days a month. Therefore, the results of the study, according to the authors, suggest that companies view remote work from home as a “new reality” even after the pandemic.
The American oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil had one of the worst years in its history. Exxon shares have fallen by 45.36% since the beginning of 2020. The company has lost money for three quarters in a row, and in August they were excluded from the benchmark index of “blue chips” Dow Jones Industrial […]
Johnson & Johnson plans to complete the third phase of trials of its single-dose vaccine against COVID-19 in mid-January 2021. Paul Stoffels, vice chairman of the executive committee, senior scientific expert at Johnson & Johnson said they plan to deliver to market 1 billion doses. “We are in the middle of the third phase of […]
The American company Pfizer and the German BioNTech have applied to the European Medicines Agency for registration of their coronavirus vaccine. The announcement was published on the BioNTech website. “On Monday, November 30, Pfizer and BioNTech filed a formal application with the European Medicines Agency for a conditional authorization to use their COVID-19 candidate vaccine […]
The National Bank did not go out this week with interventions on the interbank market, according to the press service of the regulator on Friday, November 27. The Central Bank has been refusing to buy or sell currency for three weeks in a row. At the same time, since the beginning of the year, the […]
Last week, from November 16 to 22, more than 4 million people in the world became infected with the new type of coronavirus, which is a record number since the beginning of the pandemic. This was announced on Tuesday, November 24, the press service of the World Health Organization. According to the WHO, in these […]
With the appearance of an effective vaccine against coronavirus and the subsequent recovery of the world economy, the US dollar may fall by 20%. This was reported by the Financial Times. It is noted that banks, which already had negative forecasts for the dollar next year, deteriorated expectations against the background of the emergence of […]
If coronavirus vaccines become widely available and help restore international trade and economic growth, the dollar is likely to fall by 20% in 2021. Bloomberg reports that this forecast was made by Citigroup Bank. If the forecast comes true, it will be a record drop since 1985, when the DXY index fell by 18.5% over […]
BioNTech from Mainz and US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer have announced the successful third phase of clinical trials of the vaccine from COVID. The company said in a statement that registration is expected in November. According to the release, the third phase of clinical trials of BNT162b2 showed its effectiveness by more than 90% among trial […]
Microsoft has frozen donations to American politicians who voted against Joe Biden’s approval as president after the election. This decision will be valid until 2022. In addition, Microsoft will not support state-level politicians and organizations that have tried to challenge the election results. According to Brad Smith, the president of the corporation, in the last […]
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The company PepsiCo announced the best results of its third quarter, which ended on September 5. Shares of the PepsiCo have fully recovered after the falling in February and March due to the coronavirus pandemic and show the increase of 1.4% since the beginning of the year and 17.34% over the past 6 months. Shares […]
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On October 7, 2016, the protest action was organised by Council of lawyers of the Kyiv city and Lawyers Council of Kiev region took place in Kyiv. Though this action will take place under walls of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. However, the problems to which lawyers will pay attention, don’t concern people’s deputies. It […]
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Re-arrest of Gulliver, the appointment to the post of Privatbank a foreign financier and the return of the tax police: events that you need to know. LDaily: only what is really worth your attention. Gulliver: “… there is no base for court decision on the arrest of the property “ Ukrainian media notified again about […]
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Radekhivskyi tsukor company, which is the largest producer of this product in Ukraine, has closed a deal to acquire 6 sugar factories previously owned by the company T-Tsukor. We are talking about: Borshchivskyi, Buchatskyi, Zbarazhskyi, Kozovsky, Lanovetskyi and Khorostkovskyi sugar factories, which are located in the Ternopil region. It is reported by the source delo.ua. […]
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Production and supplies of the American manufacturer of the electric vehicles Tesla grew in the third quarter of 2020 by almost 1.5 times a year, the company said in the release. Therefore, Tesla’s deliveries in the third quarter amounted to 139.3 thousand against 97 thousand in 2019, and the production – 145.036 thousand compared with […]
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The shareholders of the Unison Bank filed two lawsuits to the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, demanding to recognize the illegal and to cancel the decision of the Board of the NBU on the recognition of the bank insolvent. In the complaint the bank also requires to cancel the decision of the Deposit Guarantee Fund […]
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Media Group will provide from 10 000 euros to 500 000 euros, depending on the stage of development of the project. One of the world’s largest media group Publicis decided originally to commemorate the 90th anniversary: to finance 90 StartUps from around the world, including Ukraine, – writes AIN. As the newspaper writes, the […]
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ComboApp Company, which is engaged in the marketing and PR of mobile applications, recently completely closed the Kiev office. It was closed by consulting direction ComboApp, according to the editorial board, about 40 people worked in Kiev. In Odessa continues the GoWide direction. ComboApp’s founder Vadim Chernega confirmed the company’s downsizing, adding that this decision […]
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IT giant Google and Singapore’s state-owned investment company Temasek have invested in Indonesia’s largest online store Tokopedia, writes Nikkei Asian Review. The amount of investments is not disclosed. In October, Bloomberg reported that Tokopedia was going to raise about $ 350 million from Google and Temasek. This is Google’s second investment in the Indonesian unicorn. […]
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The last two years Oschadbank opened 500 branches in Ukraine. Twelve of them are adapted for people with disabilities. This information was published by the investment portal InVenture Ukraine. The most advanced Oschadbank branches are located in Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The Bank plans to continue to implement the modernization of branches […]
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Eurobond holders of the agricultural holding Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) for $ 750 million with a circulation period to 2020 agreed to soften some of the conditions of securities’ circulation. According to the Interfax-Ukraine, they agreed to change the definition of “consolidated net income” to exclude the impact of exchange rate differences during any period starting […]
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Citizens who have debts to the Ukrainian Platinum Bank, should be warned of financial scams that require them to repay the loans by some extraneous financial enterprise. About this fact notify the authorized financial institution faces in PJSC Platinum Bank official website. Offenders are spreading among the borrowers of the Platinum Bank messages with a […]
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The company Amazon announced the launch of a new biometric technology Amazon One, allowing to customers to enter the store and pay for purchases by placing their palm on the scanner. However, users must first associate biometric information with the credit card. And then you can pay by placing the palm. This was reported by […]
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The State Property Fund sold the Khorostkiv distillery at auction for UAH 55 million. This was reported on the auction page. This is the tenth enterprise in the industry to be privatized. Its initial cost was 31.4 million UAH. It is noted that four buyers participated in the auction for the sale of the Khorostkiv […]
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Monte Paschi Italian bank turned up under the threat of nationalization. It was reported by international business publication Bloomberg, referring to its own sources. According to official information, currently a European financial institution needs an additional capitalization for the amount of 5 billion euros. However, currently it is impossible to realize such a task, due […]
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