The company gets to un-manage PTO and the financial liability it incurs. Meanwhile, the employees self-regulate how much time they actually take off. They won't dare take off more time than they would have with the old system. And now there's an extra guilt-factor and/or performance-review-factor that may actually bias the employee to take LESS than they would ordinarily. The company is using psychology to its advantage.
Yes, but Foxnews intentionally gives their opinion shows the veneer of objective news reporting. There needs to be regulation on what can be labeled news. Iirc these regulations existed in the past but were lifted during the Reagan era.
It used to be that Netflix made pirating too labor/cost intensive to be worth it. Now that there are 5 or more streaming services, each with its own exclusive content and subscription costs, the pendulum is swinging back because paying for all these services now costs more than cable.