vonage is a talent-driven organization.te against major technology companies throughout the world. if those people demand and want to work in more virtualized environments, we are going to have to accommodate that. we are going to want to accommodate that because we want to culturally create an environment that attracts the best talent in the organization. alan: alan maza rick -- masarek, ceo of vonage. thank you for joining us. coming up, we will dig back into's results. -- uber's results. ♪ gety: we are continuing to great new information from johns hopkins university, where they are doing research on the coronavirus. earlier today, the professor of nursing told us they are seeing glimmers of hope, especially when it comes to hospital capacity. take a listen. glimmers ofeing hope where our inpatient bed capacity is stable. we have a wonderful field hospital started by our governor, who is hoping to untaxed the hospital from those who have less acute illnesses who need to convalesce in a more controlled environment. all th

maybe they should be asking. >> in the case of vonage the employees know and part of the metrics theyd we want th companies to tell their employees they're not required to, they don't have to, but they encourage the employees to find out, so they can work together and it's just another metric, ideally, that the manager and the employee can have to say, hey, were you productive did you hityour metrics, did you hit your targets we look to see if we were tw actually doing the work or not >> eric, thanks very much. eric chemi >>> still ahead, president trump arguing for negative interest rates, while fed chair jay powell remains steadfastly against them who's right? the great rate debate is next. coming up on "power lunch," cleveland fed president loretta mester will weigh in on in an exclusive interview. ick ound for that. "the exchange" will be right back >>> fed chair jay powell rejecting the idea of negative interest rates one day after president trump said he supports it powell explained why during a webcast with the peterson institute for international economics. >> the committee's

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