The CEO of WeWork thinks there is an easy way for companies to spot their most engaged employees: They’re the ones who want to come back to the office. “Those who are uberly engaged with the company want to go to the office two-thirds of the time, at least,” Sandeep Mathrani said Wednesday at The […]

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says she abhors when lawyers use hyperbole and grandstand like they are Perry Mason. She says lunch breaks are the enemy of productivity and that parents ought to observe Pi Day by feeding children pies. And she says she helped her son find success as an aeronautical engineer by […]

The second day of The Wall Street Journal’s virtual The Future of Everything Festival continued with top executives, artists and regulators discussing the next chapter of work, technology, finance and corporate culture. Access to the festival is complimentary for Journal subscribers. Here is a rundown of the day’s interviews: Investor Bill Ackman kicked off the […]

Women chief executives are held to higher standards than male leaders, Bumble Inc. chief executive Whitney Wolfe Herd said Tuesday at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival. “It’s unfair and it’s wrong,” said Ms. Wolfe Herd. “I’m pretty sick about the way a lot of these women have been completely taken out of […]

WASHINGTON—Pentagon officials are considering pulling the plug on the star-crossed JEDI cloud-computing project, which has been mired in litigation from Amazon.com Inc. and faces continuing criticism from lawmakers. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract was awarded to Microsoft Corp. in 2019 over Amazon, which has contested the award in court ever since. A federal judge […]

Mr. Musk, known for his awkwardness at times, also said he was the first person with Asperger’s syndrome to host the show—“or at least the first to admit it.” It’s the first time he has publicly said he has the condition. The chief executive of Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX—and who […]

The split between Bill and Melinda Gates, announced last week, has been in the works for a long time. Ms. Gates consulted with divorce lawyers roughly two years before she filed for divorce from Mr. Gates, saying their marriage was “irretrievably broken,” according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall […]

“Come on. I’m right here, inside your unnecessarily puffy coat. No, not that pocket—the one with the stale muffin crumbs and crumpled CVS receipt.” My often-misplaced work ID card can’t tell me how it really feels, thankfully, but it does now communicate with me via the $29 Apple AirTag tracker I’ve attached to it. Right […]

How many times have you walked into a room and had to yell that dinner is ready, only to have your kids stare blankly at you, if they look up from their screens at all? I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to raise my voice when my kids were engrossed in a […]

Diners and restaurants alike flocked to delivery apps in record numbers when the pandemic forced establishments to close their dining rooms. The surge in business has driven huge revenue growth for companies like DoorDash Inc., DASH -3.56% Grubhub Inc. GRUB -0.86% and Uber Technologies Inc., UBER -2.64% which owns Uber Eats and Postmates. While the […]