Amazon is making changes to a controversial method of measuring the productivity of workers in its warehouses, while also dropping marijuana from its employee drug testing program. In a blog post on Tuesday, Dave Clark, the CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, said that the company will immediately start averaging “time off task"—a measure of how long warehouse workers are logged off...
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Pro Weekly: Insights From The Information 50 Database

Welcome back! The Information 50 is our guide to promising startups, which we’ve published each year since 2020. Now we’ve brought together the 150 startups we’ve identified over the past three years, with added information about how they’ve fared since. The Information 50 Startups Database, which we published Thursday, details each company’s total fundraising and most recent...
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