Andy Peters

Office leasing is on the rise again as business leaders decide offices will be part of their future by signing new leases.

A lawsuit filed in Georgia is the first prominent legal case in the nation to tackle the question of who can continue to work from home at a time when more companies are bringing employees back to the office. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, sued a Danish company operating in Newton County for denying an employee’s request to work from home during the pandemic due to her medical conditions.

Best Buy plans to hire 200 workers for its technology research hub in Dunwoody. The Minneapolis company has pledged to improve diversity in its workforce and Atlanta has one of highest percentages of Black college graduates among U.S. cities.

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Rivian may build an electric vehiicle manufacturing facility in Georgia between Covington and Madison. It would be the latest big economic-development win for an area along I-20 that’s already lured Facebook and other big companies.

Rivian posted a loss in the third quarter of this year on high costs related to ramping up the company’s production. But orders for its electric vehicles are rising, making it difficult for the company to keep up with demand.

Bad weather in the western U.S. and Midwest and staff shortages due to a spike in omicron-related cases led to flight cancellations and delays in Atlanta on Wednesday.

Crispus Attucks, a sailor of African and Native American descent who lived in the Boston area, is considered the first person killed in the American Revolution and he became an icon in the anti-slavery movement.

The Verner family of Morgan County, especially Alan Verner, are at the center of the largest economic development project in Georgia state history. Some say that represents a conflict of interest.

They’re noisy, generate few jobs and consume vast amounts of electricity. But certain Georgia communities are aggressively courting new facilities to mine bitcoins. Many communities that want cryptocurrency miners are in rural areas that have few other industries. But some neighborhoods in metro Atlanta also see a benefit, including College Park, where Cleanspark recently opened a bitcoin mining facility.