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The pandemic is going to change how the Triangle’s offices look

N&O Innovation and Technology Newsletter: April 16, 2021

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The Triangle’s major employers are assembling their plans to welcome employees back to the office after more than a year of working from home.

Many are now giving the greenlight to hybrid work, allowing their workers to choose how many days of the week they are physically present — if at all. And that’s leading to some serious questions about how to best use the office and how much space is actually needed going forward.

“Everyone wants a hybrid schedule – something that gives them some control over both work and their personal life,” said Kendall Strickland, of staffing consultancy Robert Half.

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We spoke with some of the Triangle’s largest employers about how they plan to return to the office and the future of those spaces.

[Read more here]

FILE - This April 26, 2007, file photo, shows the exterior of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., in Waltham, Mass. Thermo Fisher is buying clinical research company PPD in a deal valued at $17.4 billion. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)
FILE - This April 26, 2007, file photo, shows the exterior of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., in Waltham, Mass. Thermo Fisher is buying clinical research company PPD in a deal valued at $17.4 billion. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

(Thermo Fisher is buying PPD for $17.4 billion.)

Tech news from the Triangle

  • Thermo Fisher buying PPD for $17.4M. [AP]

  • Epic Games raises $1B from investors, now valued at $29B. [N&O]

  • Triangle-based IT training school MyComputerCareer is expanding in Holly Springs with a new HQ that will create 200+ jobs. [N&O]

  • Abzena, a contract pharma manufacturer, picks Sanford for 225 jobs. [N&O]

  • Ohio agtech company EnviroFlight moves HQ to Apex. [TBJ]

  • Raleigh automation startup MuukLabs raises $750K. [WRAL]

What I’m reading

  • Louisiana private-equity firm offering big money to manage some N.C. towns utilities. [N&O]

  • Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab going public via SPAC. [CNBC]

  • Google is exploring a patient medical records tool. [STAT]

  • Molson Coors buys minority stake in Wilmington-based TRU Colors Brewery. [Forbes]

  • 7% of Americans don’t use the internet. [PEW]

  • Global chip shortage is making some industries sweat. [NYT]

  • Coinbase fetches $85B value in stock market debut. [WSJ]

  • How Stripe became Silicon Valley’s hottest startup. [WSJ]

  • Jeff Bezos last letter to shareholders as CEO of Amazon. [AMZN]

  • U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown. [RTRS]

Other Triangle business

  • Everything inside the closed Northgate Mall in Durham is being auctioned off. [N&O]

  • Here’s how N.C. plans to vaccinate migrant farmworkers this year. [N&O]

  • American announces three more nonstops from RDU. [N&O]

Let me know what you’re seeing. Email me at zeanes@newsobserver.com. Tweet me @zeanes. Call me at 919-829-4516.

Zachery Eanes is the Innovate Raleigh reporter for The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun. He covers technology, startups and main street businesses, biotechnology, and education issues related to those areas.

This newsletter was produced with financial support from a coalition of partners led by Innovate Raleigh as part of an independent journalism fellowship program. The N&O maintains full editorial control of the work. Learn more; go to bit.ly/newsinnovate