Better.com was one of the pandemic’s early business winners, quadrupling in size when mortgage rates were low — but it has become better known for bungling its approach to downsizing.
During its latest round of layoffs, Better.com pointed to turbulence in the housing market as a reason for the contraction.
Mr. Benson-Armer’s memo said all employees affected would receive individual calls, a minimum of 60 days’ compensation, up to three months of health coverage through COBRA and assistance in their job searches.
Now, as the streaming giant prepares to report its first-quarter earnings Tuesday at the close of trading, analysts are not expecting much good news.
It’s a far cry from a year ago, when Netflix added four million subscribers to its base.
Matthew Harrigan, an analyst at the Benchmark Company, said in a note issued Monday that he remained cautious about the upcoming quarterly report, predicting the company would post net subscriber growth of 1.2 million, minus one million because of the loss of Russian subscribers.
The company said in a release that masks were now optional “for everyone in the car,” and that passengers were no longer required to sit in the back seat.
The ride-hailing services’ announcements came after major airlines on Monday lifted mask rules after a federal judge in Florida ruled that travelers no longer had to wear masks on airplanes, trains and other modes of public transit.
A National Labor Relations Board regional director argued that the firing was retaliation for protesting safety conditions, which is protected by federal labor law.
Another employee said she wanted the facility to remain open because she was grateful for the extra pay she was receiving for working during the pandemic.
“We strongly disagree with this ruling and are surprised the N.L.R.B.
Mr. Green, the judge, knocked Amazon’s key justifications for the dismissal.
Amazon, for example, documented that the woman, who is white, and a manager had said Mr. Bryson called her a racial slur during the altercation.
Mr. Bryson, who celebrated the ruling with his 9-year-old son, said he was glad the judge had found that some of Amazon’s public statements about him were not valid.
Amazon justified the firing by saying other employees at the facility had been fired for similar behavior, but the judge disagreed.
Amazon had fought the case at the labor agency and in federal court.
Mr. Bryson, who is active in the union, said the ruling bolstered the case it was making to workers.
The move marks a reversal for the Düsseldorf-based producer of Persil laundry detergent and the Schwarzkopf line of hair care products, which has 2,500 employees in Russia.
As recently as April 4, the company’s chief executive Carsten Knobel defended the decision to maintain minimal operations in Russia in a speech to shareholders.
“Recent developments and consideration of different aspects” prompted the change in position, Wulf Klüppelholz, a spokesman for the company, said.
The employees in Russia will continue to be paid while business is being wound down, he said.
Among other German companies, Deutsche Telekom, a network operator, initially kept its Russian operations running, where it had employed some 2,000 people, but after several weeks decided to stop the business.
In a recent survey of builders, Zelman & Associates, a housing research firm, found that while builders were still seeing strong demand, cancellations had inched up, though still well below historically low levels.
Mr. Musk, the world’s wealthiest man who also leads the rocket maker SpaceX, last week put forward a roughly $40 billion bid to buy Twitter.
Last week, Twitter announced it was using a method called a “poison pill,” which would make it significantly harder for Mr. Musk to acquire more than 15 percent of the company.
Mr. Musk’s approach appears to have stirred other potential buyers.
Mr. Musk, for his part, appears undeterred.
The Transportation Security Administration, airlines, public transit officials and transportation providers started to roll back enforcement of the mask mandate after a federal judge ruled against the requirement on Monday.
Lyft and Uber quickly followed, saying that they would stop requiring riders and drivers in the United States to wear masks, but both companies said local regulations would supersede their own rules.
Some airline passengers received the news in airports or in flight, sharing celebratory photos and videos on social media.
Soon after boarding, the pilot announced that masks weren’t mandatory, but that those who took them off should be respectful to those who kept them on.
The Morning Consult reported this month that a similar share of adults supported a mask requirement, with those traveling over the next few months being most likely to back the mandate.
That comes as fares for domestic flights have risen 40 percent this year, from $235 for an average domestic round-trip flight, according to Hopper, an airfare-tracking app.
In many cases, the rage is sparked by belligerent resistance to complying with the mask mandate, which is enforced by flight crews on planes.
As of Monday, there were an average of more than 39,000 new cases a day, an increase of 43 percent from two weeks ago, according to a New York Times database.
Though the figure remains far lower than the peak of the winter surge driven by an Omicron variant, experts believe that new cases are increasingly undercounted with the rise of at-home testing.
While planes are equipped with high-quality filtration systems and the air is circulated often, Dr.
“Air travel is a continuum of activity, it’s not just sitting in your seat on the airplane,” Dr.