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World's oldest curling stone | Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Open in app View in browser   Presented By Facebook   Axios PM By Mike Allen ·Feb 16, 2022 Good afternoon: Today's PM — edited by Justin Green — is 457 words, a 2-minute read. ⚡ Breaking: Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar at Duke who was a top Justice Department official under President Bill Clinton, died in Chapel Hill today at 80. In 2020, Dellinger was a leader of a legal team the Biden campaign assembled to prepare for court challenges. Go deeper.     1 big thing: Employers' uphill fight Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Executives are facing a big surprise as they call employees back, reports Axios' Erica Pandey. Companies and workers are living in two different realities when it comes to returning to the office. What's happening: Much-delayed return-to-work dates are back as America moves past Omicron. Microsoft told its employees to prepare to return. As did Expedia. American Express and BNY Mellon asked workers to return in March. Reality check: 61% of teleworkers are working from home because they're choosing to, according to a Pew Research study out today. Just 38% are home because their workplaces are closed or unavailable. There's a disconnect between leadership and rank-and-file workers. Executives are three times as likely as employees to want to return to work, per a recent Future Forum survey. Workers' reasons for staying home are increasingly unrelated to the pandemic: Last month, 76% in the Pew poll cited personal choice ... 42% fear of infection ... 32% child care ... and 17% had moved away from their workplaces. Back in October 2020, it was 60% personal choice ... 57% fear of infection ... 45% child care ... and 9% moved away. Go deeper: Read the Pew report.     2. 📷 Pic du jour Photo: Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images A Russian navy vessel sails through the Bosporus on the way to the Black Sea. Istanbul's famous Suleymaniye Mosque is in the background.     A message from Facebook Why Facebook supports updated internet regulations, including Section 230     Paige is one of many experts working on privacy at Facebook — to give you more control over your information. Hear more from Paige on why Facebook supports updating regulations on the internet's most pressing challenges, including federal privacy legislation.     3. Catch up quick President Biden ordered the National Archives to hand over White House visitor logs from the Trump administration to the Jan. 6 select committee. Go deeper. Google will phase out cross-app ad trackers on Android smartphones, following Apple's new restrictions that had profound effects on companies that sell mobile ads based on user data. Go deeper. Twitter's new CEO, Parag Agrawal, will take "a few weeks" of paternity leave, in a sign of Silicon Valley's evolving norms around parental leave. Go deeper. A new report says January's retail sales trounced expectations, rising 3.8%. They dropped 2.5% in December.     4. 🥌 Parting shots Then ... Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Above: This is believed to be the world's oldest curling stone — dating from 1511, and now held by a museum in Stirling, Scotland. Curling has been popular in Scotland back to the 16th century, when it was played on frozen lochs — making it one of the world's oldest team sports. Go deeper. ... and now Photo : Justin Setterfield/Getty Images Above: Hammy McMillan (left) and Grant Hardie of Team Great Britain compete against the Russian Olympic Committee in Beijing today.     A message from Facebook Why Facebook supports updated internet regulations, including Section 230     Paige is one of many experts working on privacy at Facebook — to give you more control over your information. Hear more from Paige on why Facebook supports updating regulations on the internet's most pressing challenges, including federal privacy legislation.   Like this email style and format? Bring the strength of Smart Brevity® to your team — more effective communications, powered by Axios HQ.   Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. If you're interested in advertising, learn more here. Sponsorship has no influence on editorial content. Axios, 3100 Clarendon B‌lvd, Suite 1300, Arlington VA 22201   You received this email because you signed up for newsletters from Axios. Change your preferences or unsubscribe here.   Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up now to get Axios in your inbox.   Follow Axios on social media: