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As companies have increasingly mandated a return to the office, workers and bosses alike are finding that we're all a little rusty with in-person conduct. 

People are loud talkers at their desks, they spend meetings on their phone and networking small talk is... awkward. 

Bosses’ solution to this stilted behavior? Charm school.

I spoke with business etiquette experts, trainers and clients to hear more about this boom in workplace etiquette training and what it means for going back to the office in 2024. 

Have you encountered behavior like this at your workplace? I'd love to hear more in the comments -- and how your office has dealt with it.
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The new year is off to a ominous start for the entertainment industry, which is facing heavy layoffs at companies spanning film, TV, music and gaming.

It continues a trend of cuts that first began early last year.

Entertainment, media, gaming and tech companies have been broadly under pressure to reduce costs amid economic headwinds, Hollywood strikes, corporate consolidation and other factors following rapid hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The tidal wave of job cuts has affected several major players, including Amazon and Universal Music Group.

Cursive is making a comeback amid concerns that learning to use a keyboard had superseded handwriting skills that are important for intellectual development — and also that a new generation of students could not write or read the flowing words of historical documents, old letters and family recipes.

“The ability to sign their name in cursive is important for future job applications, writing checks, signing medical forms, obtaining driver’s licenses, and voting,” said Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Fullerton), a former teacher who sponsored the new law. “Every child should be exposed to learning — as well as the benefits of — cursive writing.”

But what are the benefits of cursive? They are hotly debated among experts.

After a 2021 Times investigation exposed a lack of diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which had long put on the Golden Globes, and raised concerns about its ethics and financial practices, Hollywood collectively shunned the awards.

But as it happened, the industry couldn’t quit the Golden Globes — and the marketing tool it provides — quite so easily.

What should happen to dead malls? The former Westside Pavilion — a long shuttered indoor mall — will be transformed into a UCLA biomedical research center.

The sprawling three-story structure will be known as the UCLA Research Park and will house two centers aimed at tackling such towering challenges as curing cancer and preventing global pandemics, officials announced Wednesday.

Many workers say they want to be in the office more often than they are now. 

The bulk of these workers are millennials and Gen Zers who value the office as a place to focus on their work, socialize with colleagues, be part of a community and grow professionally.

But even for them, returning to the office comes with some conditions.

Did you quit your job during the Great Resignation? Are you quiet quitting? Being told to RTO? Coffee badging at the office (and then promptly leaving)?

The Los Angeles Times is developing a story about the many viral words that have become popular to describe work, terms such as “Great Resignation,” “quiet quitting,” “RTO,” “polyworking” and “coffee badging.”

We’re looking to hear from readers about how they’ve seen these terms used on social media and whether these words reflect their own work lives.

Southern California home prices dipped from October to November, the first decline in nine months.

Explore the latest home and rent prices in and around L.A., updated for November.

California State University was rocked last year by claims it mishandled sexual misconduct allegations, forcing a chancellor to quit and a university president to step down. 

But Cal State’s most powerful people — those on the CSU Board of Trustees— largely escaped scrutiny. Will they follow through on promises to change?

Reporters Robert Lopez and Colleen Shalby dug into the CSU board's makeup, its actions and the fallout from scandals across the system.

To become B Corps — short for “benefit corporations” — businesses pay to be regularly evaluated on standards of environmental and social responsibility set by B Lab, a nonprofit founded in 2006 by three businessmen who were friends at Stanford University. Once certified, companies pledge to B Lab that they will become “forces for good” and “consider people and the planet alongside profit.”

A slew of celebrity-backed and luxury brands have embraced the cause, including Kendall Jenner’s 818 Tequila and skincare line Aesop. Actor and humanitarian Angelina Jolie recently said she decided to partner with Chloe on her eponymous clothing line because the French fashion house was one of the first luxury brands to achieve B Corp status.

The value of certification, according to B Lab, is tri-fold: It allows companies to build consumer trust, attract employees and entice investors.

Now some B Corps including California-based Dr. Bronner's are raising questions about the certification process. Separately, labor unions and consumer groups have called on B Lab to decertify companies following lawsuits and complaints alleging labor violations and human trafficking. Some B Corps have also been accused of engaging in multilevel marketing and predatory lending.

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