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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
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Indiana Fever livid over perceived 'double standard' by WNBA officials
Following Monday night's heartbreaking 81-80 loss, Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White called out the WNBA and its officials for having a "double-standard" against multiple players, most notably with Aliyah Boston's naturally physical style of play in the post. White's comments came on the heels of a quite physical game, where the Fever (18-15) stormed back from a 17-point deficit in the fourth quarter against the Dallas Wings (9-24), only to fall just one point short of a tie as Indiana could not get the final shot to go down. While Dallas would actually be called for more fouls than Indiana by a 19-17 margin, it was the fouls that the Wings were able to get away with, which would be be penalized on Indiana with the roles reversed. "There's a double standard there, certainly," White said. "But, you know, if it's going to be physical, and you're going to allow us to be physical, then allow both teams to be physical. If you're going to call the holds, and you're going to call the chucks, then call it both ways. So, I mean, I think that we've been pretty consistent in what we're asking for, and I didn't feel like it was consistent." During the game, White often conversed with the officials during stoppages to get an explanation of their decisions, but her frustration peaked following a shocking upheld decision on an Indiana coach's challenge over a defensive foul on Boston that preceded a made basket by Dallas' Li Yueru. During the sequence in which White instantly asked for a review, Yueru clamped Boston's arm with her elbow as she was going for the ball and continued to drag her arm around as she went up for a shot. Meanwhile, Boston was unable to escape the grasp and was forced into the foul by Yueru. While Dallas' Paige Bueckers was noticeably upset with the lack of foul calls drawn while driving to the basket, the former Connecticut star guard would eventually be rewarded with drawn fouls later in the game. While this is nothing new for foul calls to be viewed differently over the course of a game, it did appear that Indiana got the "blind eye" treatment from the officials, especially on numerous reviews. Preceding the appalling confirmed foul on Boston, there were two official-initiated reviews on potential illegal closeouts on 3-point attempts (one for each team). Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes, and opinions. Follow Scout on X: @SpringgateNews This article originally appeared on Hawkeyes Wire: Indiana Fever livid over perceived 'double standard' by WNBA officials
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Is remote work only for the rich? Double standard ignites workplace tension
When ride-sharing company Uber increased the number of days employees had to show up in person from two to three, the return-to-office mandate set off a fiery backlash. In an all-hands meeting and then in online forums, the rank-and-file groused they were being summoned back to work while many corner offices sat empty. Soon, another brouhaha erupted at JPMorgan Chase. After thousands of employees at the world's largest bank were ordered back to the office five days a week, word leaked that Filippo Gori would now run business affairs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa from New York, not from Dubai, Johannesburg or London. JPMorgan Chase did not comment. With employers cracking down on how many days a week people can work from home, office workers are calling out what they say is a double standard: executives who enforce in-person work for their teams but reserve the right to work wherever they please. Salesforce's Marc Benioff is one of those CEOs who self-identifies as a remote worker. "I've always been a remote worker my whole life," Benioff told MSNBC in 2023. "I don't work well in an office. It just doesn't work with my personality. I can't tell you why." His employees often don't have that luxury. In September, they were told to return to the office at least three days a week. Benioff said the message is to 'mix in-person and remote together.' Salesforce did not respond to a request for comment. 'Regardless of how you feel about remote work, you have to laugh at the nerve of these types of people who are being compensated millions of dollars per year to implement 'rules for thee and not for me,'' one Uber employee commented on Blind, an anonymous app for professionals. Many office workers got hooked on remote work as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down offices across America. With only 'essential' frontline workers required to show up in person, the white-collar workforce skipped rush hour and cocooned at home. Prioritizing once elusive goals such as quality of life, they relocated in droves to more affordable places such as Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho. Their new schedules made life much easier to balance, especially for parents of young children and workers with disabilities, while research frequently showed the pandemic-induced work arrangements had other benefits. Employees who worked from home were happier and as – if not more – productive. Five years later, a growing number of companies from Amazon to Ford are winding back the clock on remote work – but not for everyone. Flexibility is fast becoming an elite perk, with some top executives running their businesses hundreds or thousands of miles from the home office from the comfort of their own home office. Last year, Starbucks lured Brian Niccol from Chipotle Mexican Grill with a $10 million cash signing bonus, a $75 million stock award and a $1.6 million annual salary, making him one of the highest-paid CEOs in America. But none of his eye-popping perks got as much attention as the work-from-home deal he cut. Even as other corporate workers in the coffee chain's Seattle headquarters were told to work in the office three days a week, Niccol didn't pull up stakes. Instead, he commutes 1,600 miles from his Newport Beach, California, home on the company's private jet and on its dime. Starbucks said its CEO, who engineered the 'Back to Starbucks' turnaround plan to rebound from a prolonged sales slump, maintains an office and home in Seattle but prioritizes an active schedule visiting coffeehouses, roasting plants, support centers and business partners around the globe. Still, that special treatment irks employees. A 2023 Wall Street Journal report that Boeing Chief Financial Officer Brian West, at the time the second-highest-ranking executive at the company, worked from a small office about five minutes from his home in New Canaan, Connecticut, and hundreds of miles from the company's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters, caused a stir. West, who June 30 was replaced by former Lockheed Martin executive Jesus 'Jay' Malave, maintained that arrangement even after many staffers were told to return to the office. According to securities filings, Boeing provided $42,271 worth of flights on company aircraft last year for West, whose total compensation was nearly $6.2 million. Boeing declined to comment. Management experts say it matters far less where key executives log into work each day. After all, they often live out of suitcases while jetting to far-flung offices and calling on customers. But permitting executives to live and work remotely conflicts with the messaging that businesses benefit the most when employees show up in person. Like most sought-after workplace perks, flexibility is largely a function of power and pay, according to Stanford University economics professor Nick Bloom, who studies remote work. Higher-income workers are more likely to have remote work arrangements than those at the lower end of the pay scale, his research shows. Just 5% of workers making $10,000 to $50,000 a year live 50 or more miles from their office, compared with 14% of those earning over $250,000. 'Before the pandemic, working from home was a predictor of low pay. We used to joke about it. Is he working from home or shirking from home?' Bloom said. 'Now it's like the key to the executive toilet. Being able to work from home is something that people are flexing about.' A similar phenomenon is playing out in the public sector. President Donald Trump made splashy headlines when he ordered federal workers back to the office full-time. But, said Bloom, Trump often prefers his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to the Oval Office. The president is far from alone. A 2023 McKinsey survey found the largest share of employees who strongly prefer working from home earn more than $150,000 a year. They were also the group most likely to quit their jobs if called back to the office every day. The rank-and-file feels strongly about it, too. Three-quarters of employed adults who have a job that can be done from home are working remotely at least some of the time, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. If their employer no longer allowed them that flexibility, nearly half said they would be unlikely to stay on. Pavi Theva was stationed in Texas as a product manager when Amazon began enforcing a new three-day-a-week in-person policy. With none of her teammates located in the Austin office, she'd make the 45-minute commute to sit by herself. She regularly scrambled to find an empty conference room so she could attend virtual meetings uninterrupted. Time spent in the office was pointless, she said. 'It wasn't adding any value from a productivity standpoint or a collaboration standpoint.' After getting flagged a couple of times for not badging into the office often enough, Theva quit in February 2024 to turn a side hustle in career coaching into a full-time gig. She never looked back. 'I have zero commute,' she said. 'Just 20 seconds from my bedroom to my study in my PJs.' A report from the Census Bureau that surveyed 150,000 companies from November 2024 to January 2025 concluded remote workers like Theva are here to stay. Employees work from home at least one day a week on average and businesses expect that to continue through 2029. And some business leaders are leaning into that trend. In 2022, Airbnb instituted a 'Live and Work Anywhere' remote work policy which allows employees to work from home as long as they regularly meet up in person. Before the pandemic, some 95% of Airbnb's employees lived within 50 miles of an office, according to the online marketplace for short-term vacation rentals. Today, that figure stands at about 70%. 'If you want a team to work harder, don't make them come to the office, give them a crazy deadline and check on their progress every week,' CEO Brian Chesky said on the Masters of Scale Rapid Response podcast. 'That's how you get them to work harder, not by being in the office. I don't care where you are.' Dropbox has also doubled down on flexibility with its 'Virtual First' remote work policy. CEO Drew Houston says it doesn't make sense to force employees to show up in the office to do the same work they would do remotely. Over the last five years, about 70% of job applicants have cited remote work as the reason they are interested in working at the file-storage company, Dropbox said. Dropbox has also seen its lowest attrition rates and highest offer acceptance rates since going fully remote, internal company data shows. "We can be a lot less dumb than forcing people back into a car three days a week or whatever to literally be back on the same Zoom meeting they would have been at home,' Houston told Fortune's Leadership Next podcast. 'There's a better way to do this." (This story was updated to add new information.) This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Who gets to work from home? Double standard fuels workplace tension
CNN
25-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Watch how Fox News covered Trump dropping an F-bomb vs. a Democrat
Watch how Fox News covered Trump dropping an F-bomb vs. a Democrat CNN's Abby Phillip rolls the tape on Fox News' apparent double standard over the use of the F-word. 01:29 - Source: CNN Vertical Politics of the Day 16 videos Watch how Fox News covered Trump dropping an F-bomb vs. a Democrat CNN's Abby Phillip rolls the tape on Fox News' apparent double standard over the use of the F-word. 01:29 - Source: CNN Zohran Mamdani declares victory in NYC Democratic mayoral primary New York State assemblyman and democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani declared victory in a speech as he is poised to win the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, with his top challenger Andrew Cuomo conceding the race. According to CNN's projection, Mamdani, whose campaign focused on affordability, will garner less than 50% of the vote, meaning the race will formally be decided by ranked-choice votes. 02:35 - Source: WABC Mamdani camp electric after Cuomo concedes Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman and democratic socialist, moved to the brink Tuesday of a stunning win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, with his top challenger, Andrew Cuomo, conceding the race. 00:59 - Source: CNN Cuomo called Mamdani after conceding NYC mayoral primary New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani was on the brink of a stunning Democratic primary win Tuesday for New York City mayor, with his top challenger, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, conceding the race. 00:38 - Source: CNN Trump lashes out at Israel and Iran President Donald Trump condemned both Iran and Israel as the ceasefire he brokered between the two countries appeared to grow more fragile. Trump was critical of both sides, but reserved his harshest condemnation for Israel, who he said 'unloaded' on Iran 'as soon as we made the deal.' 02:01 - Source: CNN Reporter asks Trump if he wants regime change in Iran When questioned about Iran while aboard Air Force 1, President Trump addressed whether he desires a change in the countries' regime. 00:58 - Source: CNN Father of Marines detained by ICE Narciso Barranco, a father of three US Marines, was detained by federal agents while working as a landscaper in California. Video captured the moment he was confronted by the agents. 01:10 - Source: CNN 'Complete bait and switch': MTG calls out Trump over Iran strikes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) calls out President Donald Trump's for reversing course on "key promises" on the "MAGA agenda" after U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear facilities. 00:36 - Source: CNN Bernie Sanders reacts to US strikes on Iran during speech Sen. Bernie Sanders held a "Fighting Oligarchy" rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he received news of President Donald Trump's strikes on Iran. 01:38 - Source: CNN Trump announces air strikes on nuclear sites in Iran US President Donald Trump announced that the United States has completed a 'very successful attack' on nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. 00:38 - Source: CNN Trump's remarks on US strikes in Iran President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the White House after US strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran. 03:39 - Source: CNN Why Trump rebuked his own intel chief CNN's Kristen Holmes reports on how Tulsi Gabbard's standing inside the Trump administration has diminished in recent weeks. President Donald Trump has come to see the director of national intelligence as "off message" when it comes to the conflict in the Middle East, according to one senior White House advisor. 02:04 - Source: CNN Why Fareed Zakaria thinks Trump has 'FOMO' foreign policy CNN's Fareed Zakaria analyzes what may be motivating President Trump's foreign policy: a fear of missing out. 00:44 - Source: CNN Border patrol agents arrest US citizen standing up for detained maintenance worker A US citizen has been arrested after a physical altercation with immigration agents after they detained a maintenance worker at a shopping center in Pico Rivera, California. 01:33 - Source: CNN Jewish GOP Congressman says he was 'run off the road' GOP Rep. Max Miller said he was 'run off the road' on his way to work in Ohio by an individual who yelled "Death to Israel" and had a Palestinian flag. Miller is Jewish and describes himself as a staunch defender of Israel. 00:50 - Source: CNN
CNN
25-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Watch how Fox News covered Trump dropping an F-bomb vs. a Democrat
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Free Malaysia Today
31-05-2025
- General
- Free Malaysia Today
China bristles at Macron linking Ukraine to Taiwan
The embassy's Facebook post did not mention the French president directly but had a photo of him talking at the event. (AFP pic) SINGAPORE : China on Saturday criticised as a 'double standard' attempts to link the defence of Ukraine with the need to protect Taiwan from a Chinese invasion – a thinly veiled reference to a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in Singapore on Friday night. As part of a broader address on the risks of division between China and the United States, Macron told the Shangri-La Dialogue defence meeting that if Russia was allowed to take any part of Ukraine without constraint then, 'what could happen in Taiwan?'. In a Facebook post, China's embassy in Singapore said that comparing the Taiwan issue with the Ukraine issue is 'unacceptable'. 'The two are different in nature and not comparable at all,' the post said, saying that Taiwan was entirely an internal affair for China. 'If one tries to denounce a 'double standard' with a double standard, the only result we can get is still a double standard,' the post said. The embassy post did not mention Macron directly but it was accompanied by a photo of him talking at the event. Beijing has previously dispatched defence ministers and other senior military officials to the annual meeting, which ends on Sunday, but this year sent a relatively low-level delegation of military academics. China views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory and has stepped up military and political pressure to assert those claims, including increasing the intensity of war games, saying the island is one of its provinces with no right to be called a state. Taiwan's government rejects Beijing's sovereignty claims, saying only the island's people can decide their future. US defence secretary Pete Hegseth told the gathering on Saturday that China posed an 'imminent' threat and any attempt to conquer Taiwan 'would result in devastating consequences for the Indo-Pacific and the world'. Regional diplomats said that Macron's comments were far from isolated during the freewheeling, informal meeting and risks of a Russian victory emboldening a Chinese invasion of Taiwan had at times surfaced in sideline discussions. 'The message from many backing Ukraine is that the line must be held if a message is to be sent to China,' said one East Asian envoy.
