first term, it was important to have ceo level relationships with donald trump, that that could prevent him from targeting companies andld trump �*s regulation often really rose or fell based on whether he liked the company personally. if you are a ceo of a tech company or any company you would rather start off a second trump term with a positive relationship. there are many tech stories that will have to be taking a stance on. what think his views are on tiktok all the potential wake—up of google? fine are on tiktok all the potential wake-up of google?_ are on tiktok all the potential wake-up of google? one of the thins wake-up of google? one of the things you _ wake-up of google? one of the things you see _ wake-up of google? one of the things you see with _ wake-up of google? one of the things you see with ronald - things you see with ronald trump when he talks about tech it is usually through the lens of is this service nice to me. i think it is a mistake to interpret ideology when it may be ego. when he spoke about google during the campaign he was asked about breaking up google and immediately the way that he talk

one of the things you will see tech leaders do, leaders of us tech companies do is going to trump andared enemy, european regulators and we need to beat those companies. i think the companies that go to donald trump and say that we have a common enemy and we want to go, they will be the ones who succeed the most with donald trump. speaking of him he has made tariff threats to many trading partners, causing a lot of uncertainty. indian manufacturers are optimistic because they stand to benefit from companies looking to diversify from china. humming with renewed in —— energy they are hoping new business is brought in. these are motherboards, the hardware that tops, desktops, remote, even appliances. until about five years ago india was completely reliant on imports for the hardware. this makes india well—placed to the gap if and when the us imposes high tariffs on chinese imports and it forces global firms to look for alternatives.— it forces global firms to look for alternatives. now that we are poised — for alternatives. now that we are poised for— for alternatives. now that we are po

and company a or for donald trump and company. this is, as you say, a company, right? this is something that they needed to announce me to, to get done. it doesn't matter what happens after it doesn't matter if there's a more that the sense of how this thing is getting killed as we speak. what matters is that the announcement was made. now let us hope that come sunday. there is an actual ceasefire on the east road. he was through the terms that have been announced. israel has indeed been made on the announcement officials for many minutes spoken about it yet. they're talking about a baltimore on the security cabinet. so again, these back to the question, what is exactly joe? right, and then donald trump, then the category prime minister and a jeep some precedent announcing today, if these are all house and keeping their final go ahead. if so, is the one who brought it apart? what could, esteban have offered that was new to cause this break to wasn't giving nothing yahoo, no option or at perhaps a normalization of as really relations with saudi arabia. it was on the tab

and company a or for donald trump and company. this is, as you say, a w, right? this is something that they needed to announce needed to get done. it doesn't matter what happens after it doesn't matter if there is a more the boss ends up all this thing is getting killed as we speak. what matters is that the announcement was made. now middle school back on sunday. there is an actual ceasefire on the east road, a he was through the terms that have been announced. israel has him even made on the announcement officials by the name and spoken about it. yeah. they're talking about a baltimore and the security cabinet. so again, be back to the question, what is exactly joe, right, and then donald trump then to come, sorry, prime minister and a jeep, some precedent announcing today these rojas and given their final go ahead. if so, is the one who brought it about? what could, esteban have offered that was new to cause this break to wasn't giving nothing. yahoo, no option or uh, perhaps a normalization of as really relations with saudi arabia. it was on the table that's b

that a certain leader of theirs, representative bob good is no longer there, he crossed trump and trump and company poured in lots of money on different candidates and he's not here. and that is a real threat. and it's a tradition i think that when you have these brief periods of unified government legislators try to do what they can to help the president succeed. they don't want to knee cap 20 ps finishing my dissertation, i was interviewing some hill staff about george w. bush and the "no child left behind" act, the big reauthorization of the 19 65 elementary and secondary education act. i had republican staff tell me they were not entirely happy with the bill, because it was brought up early in mr. busch's term, they did not want to make him look bad by opposing him. that was before social media. so i think there is going to be really intense incentive for republicans to line stuff up that mr. trump consigned to get these things through. we have already seen that the lincoln riley bill was passed. there is always stuff being passed. they are trained to set up the president and their party to loo

other right now and noticing a certain leader of theirs, representative bob good, is no longer there pretty cross trump because he endorsed desantis in the presidential race. trump and company poured in lots of money, it ran a different candidate and he is not here. that is a real threat. it's a tradition we have these brief periods of unified government legislators try to do it they can to help the president succeed but they do not want to kneecap him fresh out of the gatesou. twenty plus years ago i was interviewing some hill staff about george w. bush the no child left behind act. the bigger reauthorization of the 1965 elementary and secondary education act. mead republican staff tell they were not entirely happy with the built but because it was brought up early in mr. bush's term, they did not want to make him look bad by opposingpo him. i think there's going to be intense incentives on republicansuit line stuff up tht mr. trump can sign in to get these things through prayer we've already seen at the lake and riley bill was passed there's other things being a pastor trying to set the president and their party to look good. they're making good on voters that incentive i

that's really where it starts with donald trump, this is a person whose first term sue to block the merger of at&t — time warner because the company owned a cnn andn coverage. this is an important lens to approach rp, to look at how he approaches regulation. he has made threats _ approaches regulation. he has made threats to _ approaches regulation. he has made threats to many - approaches regulation. he has - made threats to many companies. he has made many threats. india's factories are hoping donald trump �*s threat of a tariff or with china brings new business from global clients. these are motherboards, the computer hardware that powers your laptops, desktops, remotes even your appliances. tell about five years ago india was completely reliant on imports for such it hardware but today factories like these manufacturers almost 50% of it locally. this is one segment where india is trying to push its manufacturing muscle. bengaluru based company says this makes india well—placed to fill the gap if the us places high tariffs on imports and faces globalfirms to high tariffs on imports and faces global firms to look for alternatives.— faces global

trump, and that's not all. zuckerberg is actually going further right now in this constellation of moves that even say jeff bezos who said nice things about trump but has basically tried to run his own company pretty independently as best as we can tell. here's the difference. and this was also played up in the fox appearance today. zuckerberg is going to grant donald trump actual power over running his company. people talk online about how things really work, well, with facts and evidence, not any sort of conspiracy theories, we will show you how this works, these are powerful companies with a lot of money, there's a leader, the co in this case it's a founder ceo, but above the ceo, is a board, a governing board and zuckerberg is giving one of those coveted, powerful board seats to the trump ally that you see here, one of the president elects closest confidence -- he had one of the few speaking roles on election night. >> what happens when the machine comes after you, this is what it looks like. couldn't stop him, he keeps going forward, he doesn't quit, he's the most resilient, hard- working man i've ever met in my life, this is karma, ladies and gentlemen, he deserves this. >> this is ka

something fiercely criticized by president elect donald trump and his allies. cooks use the company of blocking their voices and threatening consequences. speaking at a news conference, trump, who was banned from facebook for 2 years in 2021. has welcome to move. very simple . honestly, i think they've come a long way. met a facebook i think they've come a long way. i watched it. the man was very impressed. if i watch it actually, i watch it on fox. i'm not allowed to say that. say it directly respond to probably human rights activates, reacted with shock to the announcement that we've been investigating matter for 4 years now. and we've seen them really progress in terms of their ability to detect this information. we live, i like to just information and hey on, on this platform and to see they suddenly time the it so clearly to the carry phase with tom and his administration is really disappointing thing. and as i used to have really negative legal implications, rights groups say a better solution would be to invest more heavily to improve the work of fact checkers instead of getting

trump will help me with the rest of the world. the europeans, australians, other countries are actually regulating these companies now, and he is saying, i am going to have donald trump help me ensure that other countries cannot enforce their own laws against my company. that should concern everybody for global democracy, that this man who owns a company based out of silicon valley, said publicly today, i am going to use the president of the united states to make sure that other countries cannot tell me what i can do in their countries. >> you were at that news conference today went donald trump said this move by zuckerberg was probably influenced by trump's threat against him. how much does that embolden donald trump to do this to all sorts of other leaders? >> i think the representation to your question and acknowledgment that, quote, probably, zuckerberg change the policy for meta as a result of his threats. i think it was an acknowledgment by meta matches the struggle to fact check or quash disinformation on his own platform, but chief among them, the president of the united states, donald trump, and the battle they attempted to w

if him and trump weren't exactly best friends. uber's donating $2 million. these companyight side of the administration. i think you're going to get more tax cuts talk, and this is what's going to drive, just wait until we get tax cuts. that ooh, i think, is going to add an additional 10 president earnings perrer -- 10%. stuart: does it help the stock price if the ceo is friendly with donald trump in. >> well, look at tesla. i mean, that stock is up 40 plus percent. i think other ceos are seeing this and saying, you know what? the tide is turning. we don't want to be on the wrong side of this for the next four years, so i actually think there's some correlation between those fortune 50 companies that support trump and their stock prices doing well in 2025. stuart: david, we've never seen anything quite like this before, at least i haven't, and i'm much older than you. david nick lags, thanks -- nicholas, thanks for joining us. look at that. well, there's the bell. in a few seconds -- he's itching. yeah, there you go. away we go with. the market is open and, yes, we have o

from apple yet on tariffs or discussions with cook and trump and what we should read from this $1 million donation and they're not saying if the companyng as well or if this is a personal donation from ceo tim cook. meantime, trump said cook had dinner with him at mar-a-lago. on the microsoft front,certify for the government. now it is calling about security after the security breach in the emails by chinese heart attack . microsoft is facing legal investigations and challenges related to its stake in openai. not the only notable names, by the way, donating to the inauguration. openai ceo is donating $1 million. uber is donating $1 million and the ceo is donating $1 million himself. that's a taste of it. robinhood and other names we talk about are also donating to the inauguration. of course, you have to talk about elon musk. he spent over 2 on $200 million get trump elected. frank. >> the intersection with d.c. and wall street. big business in the white house. something very interesting. steve kovach from the nasdaq. thank you. >>> coming up on "worldwide exchange," the one word every investor has to hear today. >>> why the new grand

more companies donating to trump's inauguration. which is the latest, madison? >> boeing ande. each company has given $1 million to president-elect trump's inaugural committee. google's donation, they're also going to to get a live stream on youtube, which they own, so not a bad deal for them. google and boeing have donated to other presidential inaugural funds, boeing says for the 35s three inaugurations. chevron also joining the list, but they will not say how much they've given to the fund. but that list is very long. as as a reminder, meta, amazon, uber. those companies you're seeing, they've all contributed to trump's inaugural fund. car companies toyota and ford also on that list, they have even given $1 million. businesses looking to curry favor with the incoming administration. should be divide the inauguration. stuart: i'm dying to see -- >> i can't wait, yeah. stuart: coming up, we've got the long-awaited trump sentencing in the new york hush money case. the president-elect has been given a sentence of unconditional discharge. we'll have a full break, breakdown, i s

i think the election was stolen from trump and technology companies would not let us talk about the fact that joe biden is, it is the leader of the world's biggest crime family. then they recognize that they need to do it in order to achieve power. part of the problem for the young veteran to is that some of these manipulative voices are a former high ranking military leaders. so when you hear somebody who held sway over you, when you're in uniform, know they're out and they're still commanding that respect, that has just such a strong purpose truck one he won the as he want, he won the popular vote. he won the popular the electoral college vote. oh, you know, friends lose the character he something special. it adds comes a little bit from the commodity of being a military person. i can look at flint, and i can see that he's, he's got some really, really deep love for this country and respect for it. and he does respect is of, i am not a conspiracy theorist. i base my life on facts and judgement. and what i believe is right for this country, for this country period plan has been exposing

sheriff, he was able to actually talk to elon musk who runs tesla and a number of other companies and is working with president-elect trump to get information. the tesla car absorbs so much data. where it was charged, where it has been, all sorts of information about what occurs inside the vehicle and the way it is operated. it is an investigative landmine for these individuals. you heard about a blanket that was used to put the fire out. electric vehicles generally have reaction when firefighters apply water to them. to be able to put out a fire, what occurs as they try to put a blanket over it to suffocate the fire, effectively take away its oxygen source then stop the flames going on from there. that is something law enforcement typically uses and was used here to stop the fire. to your question, are we looking at two link defense today, one involving a high-profile incident that was isis-inspired in new orleans and another bearing the property that bears the name of the president and a vehicle of one of his top advisers at this point, that something they are asking questions about, given the fact both these events too

popular social media app is owned by a chinese company, bytedance, and right now tiktok is refusing to separate from that company. president-elect donald trump considered banning tiktok during his first term in office, but now he says he opposes the ban. and facebook parent company meta is making a major leadership change, replacing a senior policy executive with a well-known republican who has been with the company for years. >> cnn's clare duffy has the latest now on who is taking over as nick clegg steps down. >> reporter this is one of meta's most important jobs. its top policy executive chief global affairs officer. this role has been held by former uk deputy prime minister nick clegg, who joined the company in 2018 and has helped meta navigate some really thorny issues. everything from concerns that its products were harming young people to questions about foreign election interference, regulatory pressures from the u.s. and the eu. but clegg says he is now stepping down and handing the role to his deputy, joel kaplan, who is one of the company's most prominent republican leaders. kaplan has been working on policy at meta since 2011, b

and companies. now we're seeing that donald trump is common back to power. we've seen market dr. barton to the complete opposites and now actually use and trump's talking point say, well actually all these 5 talking companies both have done so far is lead to censorship. after trump 1st go to what did it in 2016, the legacy media wrote non stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. we tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. but the fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the us. i mean, the situation even got worse after the 2016 presidential election because we have, for example, this one is one the election. and then the co with pandemic, which raise more, more concerns and doubts about these 5 trucking companies and what they were doing . and the kind of information that they were sense when calling it that there were no bias. but we're seeing the complete opposite getting a lot of criticism, especially from conservatives in the u. s. and that

to, you know, bend the knee to donald trump, hoping, i think, that donald trump will not retaliate against him and his company donald trump was livid that mark zuckerberg and these other tech titans banned him from their platforms in the aftermath of the january 6th insurrection. and so, you know, there's a lot of bad blood there from a few years ago. >> mark zuckerberg now does not want to be regulated, does not want donald trump as his enemy. and so he is really doing everything in his power to suck up to donald trump. >> well, you know, oliver, there's bending the knee to donald trump and then there's drinking the kool-aid. listen to what mark zuckerberg said yesterday. he went on joe rogan's podcast yesterday. just listen to this. >> biden, when he was he gave some statement at some point, i don't know if it was a press conference or to some journalists where he basically was like, these guys are killing people and, and, and i don't know. >> then, like all these different agencies and branches of government basically just like started investigating, coming after our company. it was it was brutal. >> it wa

enthusiastically supported and campaigned for trump during the final months of last year's election, and spent a quarter of $1 billion to help him win. now, since trump has been elected, tech companiesike meta and amazon and individual ceos have each given $1 million to trump's inaugural fund. we should note that these companies did not give exactly that kind of money to trump's first inaugural fund, and they definitely did not give that kind of money to biden's, this kind of just blatant cozying up just isn't normal. it shouldn't be any mystery. why is the thing i mean bound to trump potentially protects them and may even benefit them financially. and one of the clear casualties of this capitulation, this trade off of bowing to trump in exchange for influence, is our information space. i mean, since buying the social media site formerly known as twitter in 2022, musk has overhauled its systems, cutting back its content moderation, increasing his own personal reach and opening the platform to a new flood of conspiracy theories and far right fringe ideas that were once reserved for the far corners of the internet. musk has repeatedly claimed to have cultivated all of this in the name

big boys are tripping over themselves, trying to curry favor with donald trump and his income and give ministration. but few companies have been as active and as blatant as mark soccer birds. messer. i mean obviously robbie is here with the details to keeping up with the pace of change it met us since trump selection victory has become something of an in jordan sport. the latest announcement from chapman mc, you'll monk, a bug was significant, not just because of the content of his statement, but the very obvious tone of deference towards trump. the recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech. according to zak a bug met us fact checking i'm content motivation had gone too far and had resulted in censorship. so professional fact checking we'd be placed by use a sliding, i'm collecting inaccuracies, restrictions on contentious topics like integration and gender. we'd be listed. and there's also a book went further, we're going to work with president trump, to push back on governments around the world, pushy to sensor more. there's been dreams of analysis on the change

cozy up to the party in pao, in the obama years, it was that, it was trump, then biden, and now back to trump. the idea that these companiesng has given way to the real politics of, yeah, you want good relationships with whoever's in office. it feels obvious to say, but feels like a departure from a few years ago when it was very much more about moral posturing. >> now it's money posturing, because the perception here is that trump will be very transactional, as he was in his first term. and i always go back to the example, when we talk about this to jeff bezos. trump really made his life tough during his first presidency, going after him about abusing allegedly the united states postal service, making it difficult for amazon the win that cloud computing contract with the pentagon, which, by the way, amazon tried to sue over and that ended up going nowhere. and now you're seeing them just go the other way. you're seeing what bezos is doing with "the washington post." what all of these tech leaders are doing, donating -- >> but to be fair, joe biden got a large salary from the university of pennsylvania. i don't think he ev

trump assassination, that didn't come up first. it was attempted assassination of reagan and then lincoln and on and on. and they buried trump down below. that was google engineers who did that. and the companyoriated in social media because so many people said you can't do it. that's not the way it works. this is the biggest news item of, arguably, the year if not the the decade, they're trying to assassinate a likely president, and they bury it? so google has already been called out. thank goodness. the irony is i actually own google because i have to invest in a dispassionate way. i can't think about some of these other issue, and i do think that a google is a stock that you need to own just as you need to own those others that we named. thank goodness there are also people out there who are keeping google honest. stuart: got it. adam, thank you. >>> coming up, live coverage of jimmy carter, the 39th president of the united states. (woman) i don't have time for this. come on! ugh, what? (vo) free your team with verizon business complete. shipping. setup. replacement. recycling. we do it all. so you don't have to. where ya headed? susan: where am i headed? am i just gonna take what the mar

the judge has indicated he will not sentence trump to jail and instead will sign an unconditional discharge. the company meta has announced it will add. trump ally dana white to its board of directors and will no longer work to fight disinformation on the site, ending the company's fact checking efforts. we'll talk more about meta's move to curry favor with the new white house. coming up in our business report. congress meantime getting ready for trump. but by writing a single massive bill in order to pass all of his priorities all at once. here's republican speaker johnson in charge of that. we had long work sessions over t weekend with all the house republicans on that point, and we are going to get that job done. so some people like the one bill strategy, some people like the two bill strategy. we will work that out. i mean, dialog this morning with senator thune and the two houses will get together and we'll get it done. so stay tuned. what do you say? this is a great day for the country. we're going to certify the election of donald j. trump as the 47th president. that's our focus today. so stay tu

and just october 2024. there was a week of action against trump or on the giant and oil company and gas company in the us. because it is very complicit in extracting because really claimed gas of the in the mediterranean. so it's a very important asset for power and israel's genocide and apartheid tracing and so to speak. but it's also destroying and indigenous lines in ecuador. and so we connected, the struggle is very well and on climate just as active as did an incredible job and supporting this campaign. it is very important that every sector organizes in their sector. so academics and students and unions and universities can do a lot of work in universities. but what are filmmakers underwriters and, and feminist and eligibility active as an assignment, you know, there's so many groups that we work with and everyone can be active in their own sector. so all those powers coming together, if you have a common strategy, as we do the media movement as a one global common strategy with very different tactics that are context sensitive, everybody. for me, i would just want to end with one last question. you

and the attention turns to trump tariffs. >>> and the china commerce ministry hits u.s. companiesh export restrictions as trade tensions heat up targeting major defense ector names. >>> the u.s. kicks off 2025 on high alert with the attack in new orleans that killed 15 people and just hours later, the deadly explosion of the tesla cyber truck outside the trump hotel in las vegas. >>> the russian gas flows to europe via ukraine ends the agreement ending the russian dominance over the energy market. >>> it is the first trading day of 2025. let's get a check of european bourses and how we have moved so far today. european equities have been trading for just over an hour and a half thus far. indeed, thus far, we have a mixed picture. at the moment, we are seeing down side in france with the cac 40 down .6%. the ftse mib down .4%. indeed, however, earlier today, we actually had a bit of green for european bourses, but that seems to be dissipating at this stage after weak manufacturing data that was not really surprising, really, but nonetheless, investors still tracking those developme

cfius and really this decision is one that is way -- we will see what happens under a trump administration who is also, though, critical of this deal. i would just get back to u.s. steel the companyould say this sell-off is an opportunity on a stand-alone basis. if you look at -- there are a couple of different analysts on the street that say the free cash flow of this company is growing and by '26 you are talking about 10% free cash flow yield. and with steel prices, which can be volatile, and let's see where things go, but in the current environment this is a stock that's probably a $40 stock. there is also another bid out there. let's see what happens. they say they are substantially below that. would they be? i mean, they sound interested. i think you are buying weakness in u.s. steel. >> what do you think? >> this is a stock, a company that both presidents wanted to be pro worker for and trump has said he is not going to let them fail. he believes they are a strong steel industry for the u.s. he is not going to let it fail. whether tax incentives or tariffs and technically on a chart this is where it should balance. i think it goes substantially higher. >>> coming up, trade

trump's tariffs and stream of executives that showed us the extent of corporate changes that trump will bring in. bankers, oil guys, wall street people and of course the ceo of all the trillion technology companies and they are not afraid to switch sides. they'll ditch biden is go with trump because he has the white house, the senate, and the house and all the power that goes with it. third hour of varney starts now. ♪ stuart: martha mcca maccallum ws this wednesday morning. it feels like trump is now the president in fact. >> absolutely and i think in most ways biden abdicated that rule and he's been as quiet as ever during this presidency and going out with a whimper and not a bang. with regard to the reaction of u.s. corporations, i really believe the pendulum of freedom in america carries the weight; right. so it swung very far to the left and it didn't make any sense in terms of corporate responsibility that they -- mission for corporations is to make money for shareholders and provide jobs for americans, which i don't have to tell you. that is what it is. it is not to create equality in the country and not to be some sort of social if they do it for their own good and bottom line. what hat

other guardrails on posts that have ended their diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the company. they have donated $1 million to trump's inaugural fund. they have increased the outreach of mark zuckerberg and his and his acolytes to conservative media. they have appointed republican joel kaplan as the new head of global policy, and they also named ufc ceo and staunch trump ally dana white to meta's board. white is someone who was at trump's convention earlier last summer and also at his victory party, and is very close to the incoming president and and zuckerberg spoke a little bit in an interview he had this week with joe rogan about what he looks forward to in the trump administration. take a listen to what he said. >> i do think that the american technology industry is a bright spot in the american economy. i think it's a strategic advantage for the united states that we have a lot of the strongest companies in the world, and i think it should be part of the u.s .'s strategy going forward to defend that. and and it's one of the things that i'm optimistic about with president trump is i think he just wants america to

are penalties or the deal does not happen and you can put companies in their and we want lots of companies from all over the world and vested in the u.s. trumpmake it the best place in the world to invest, this is a great deal the start with. >> japan is an ally, we need them as we counter china. >> it's only natural to administration officials underway out should defend their performance. two senior officials karine jean-pierre in anthony blinken are trying to do that. it's very difficult to defend a failed presidency. that is my take top of the hour. a mysterious respiratory virus overwhelming hospitals in china called hm pv. doctor frank will explain it all next. all the buzz around bitcoin isn't just talk anymore crypto has gone mainstream. at itrustcapital, you can buy and sell cryptocurrencies 24/7 with the tax benefits of an ira. that's right, with an itrustcapital ira, you can defer taxes until retirement or choose a roth ira for tax-free withdrawals later. setting up an account is quick and easy it only takes minutes. open your account today at itrustcapital.com. the new era of crypto is here. what will you do when the power goes ou

trump at his inauguration next week. now, it should be said a number of companies have been rolling back diversity programs ahead of trump's second term. walmart, boeing, john deere and company is not only keeping its dei programs, costco is defending those programs as good for business. according to costco's board of directors, diversity helps attract talent and also innovate products. in a note urging shareholders to reject a proposal that would undermine dei, the board of directors wrote, our commitment to an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary. if you like that, also keep in mind that as an added benefit, you can also buy over 150 oreos at costco for under $15. that's our show for tonight. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening lawrence

he was very popular on the platform and that one of his key donors, is actually an investor in the parent company of tiktok. so trumpiktok intact and i think is going to keep a lot of pressure on the supreme court to let him resolve this from a political point of view. now to amazon — it's corporate workers return to the office today full—time, after the company called time on a period of flexible hybrid working triggered by the covid pandemic. that announcement was made in september. the chief executive, andyjassy, in a memo to staff, said the business would be "better set up to invent, collaborate, and be connected." mrjassy has long been known as a sceptic of remote work, but amazon staff were previously allowed to work from home two days a week. chris roebuck is an expert on working cultureat the ucl school of management. he disagrees with amazon's decision. just to give a quick repeat of what the evidence says. effectively, we all know from our own experience, if we are trying to do individual work in an office that is distracting, we have difficulty because people disturb us and we lose concentration. people w