Office News

• Mike Pence will not quarantine after four aides test positive for coronavirus
  
  Vice President Mike Pence will not quarantine himself despite two of his top aides testing positive for Covid-19, his office said.
  CNBC.  Sunday, 25 Oct 2020.
• 5 close to Pence test positive for coronavirus, VP to maintain campaign schedule, office says
  
  Vice President Mike Pence's office announced Sunday that three more staffers have now tested positive for coronavirus.
  Fox News.  Sunday, 25 Oct 2020.
• People With This Personality Are Suffering The Most While Working From Home
  
  Depending on your personality, working from home has either supplied a welcome respite from office politics, or it has stolen our indispensable human connections. ...
  Forbes.  Sunday, 25 Oct 2020.
• Frustrated MPs are 'turning their House of Commons offices into secret bars'
  
  House of Commons officials are to investigate claims that MPs frustrated by the closure of Westminster's bars are turning their offices into secret 'pubs' - complete with table football.
  Daily Mail.  Saturday, 24 Oct 2020.
• Home Office launch 'urgent' probe into balding 'asylum seeker' school pupil
  
  Photographs emerged purporting to show the asylum seeker student, who is said to have moved to the UK from West Africa, following concerns raised by his fellow pupils at a school in Coventry.
  Daily Mail.  Saturday, 24 Oct 2020.
• 19 suspected people smugglers arrested in two weeks, Home Office says
  
  Nineteen people have been arrested in the past fortnight in connection with people smuggling across the English Channel.
  Sky News.  Saturday, 24 Oct 2020.
• Improve Your Home or Office Security with This Smart Detection Camera
  
  Save 33 percent on this security camera that doesn't compromise.
  Entrepreneur.  Saturday, 24 Oct 2020.
• Anywhere But Home: New Yorkers Get Creative About Work Spaces
  
  The need for privacy has driven some people to rent hotel rooms, vacant apartments and empty offices.
  New York Times.  Saturday, 24 Oct 2020.
• New Mexico DA gets grant for prosecutor to target gun crimes
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The federal government is providing a $278,000 grant to a New Mexico district attorney's office to hire a full-time local prosecutor to try firearms cases in federal court. The U.S. ...
  Washington Times.  Saturday, 24 Oct 2020.
• Trump quietly closed the U.S.'s vaccine safety office last year. Researchers are scrambling to replace it.
  
  Developers will start rolling out their COVID-19 vaccines in the coming months, leaving U.S. health officials to test their long-term safety. ...
  Yahoo.  Friday, 23 Oct 2020.
• Nigeria says 'many lives have been lost' in days of unrest
  
  "Many lives have been lost" in Nigeria's unrest, the president's office announced Friday, as the government said days of peaceful protests over police abuses had been hijacked.
  ABC News.  Friday, 23 Oct 2020.
• Coronavirus infections continue to rise across UK
  
  The highest levels continue to be in the north of England, says the Office for National Statistics.
  BBC News.  Friday, 23 Oct 2020.
• Watercoolers: Can We Replace Random Daily Contact?
  
  How do we replace the daily contact we used to have with people in our offices, those glass palaces we used to spend so much time in? Do we not need the trivial, casual interactions of the water cooler, the office kitchen, the elevator?
  Forbes.  Friday, 23 Oct 2020.
• Nearly 'one in ten' furloughed staff were asked to work
  
  A National Audit Office survey found employers asked staff to work while collecting furlough pay.
  BBC News.  Thursday, 22 Oct 2020.
• 2020 polls: Half of all Americans want Trump criminally investigated after presidency, Independent poll finds
  
  Forty-nine percent of respondents said they believe Mr Trump should be criminally investigated once he leaves office for crimes he might have committed while in office, according to a JL Partners-Independent poll
  Yahoo.  Thursday, 22 Oct 2020.

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