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July 22, 2024
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Reasonable accommodation or unfair expectation? Employers grapple with hybrid work policies as employees test limits

Andrew Larson

Four years after the pandemic made remote work more palatable to employers, many companies are still grappling with how to balance workers’ desire for flexibility with employers’ needs, including monitoring worker productivity.

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Would Aetna be better off being spun off as an independent company?
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CVS Health, parent company of Hartford health insurer Aetna, recently told employees it will cut 1% of its workforce, or about 2,900 employees. 

The job cuts will mostly impact corporate jobs and are part of a broader $2 billion cost-cutting effort. 

Meantime, CVS’ board of directors is performing a full assessment of the company, which has struggled financially in recent quarters, including the possibility of breaking it up, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

This is the latest round of layoffs for CVS and Aetna. Just over a year ago, CVS said it would cut about 5,000 jobs nationwide, including hundreds of jobs at Aetna.

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