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No going back: Anticipated return to office ‘has failed to materialize’ in Seattle, report says

Offices in Seattle will remain partly empty until 2024. At least, that’s what commercial real estate company Broderick Group predicts in a market report for the second quarter of 2022, saying that economic pressures and the work-from-home movement will keep vacancy rates high in commercial spaces in the region throughout 2022 and 2023. In a previous market assessment, Broderick was optimistic that organizations and employees would return to the office, citing the easing of pandemic-induced restrictions and rising levels of vaccinations.

How remote work is changing tech pay: Seattle startup comp equals Silicon Valley, study says

Remote work is equalizing tech startup pay across the country, with Silicon Valley and San Francisco as the benchmark, and Seattle as Exhibit A.

Microsoft cuts jobs in ‘strategic realignment’ as new fiscal year begins

Microsoft confirmed a “small number” of job cuts Tuesday morning, describing the move as part of a “strategic realignment” in specific areas of the company, and saying it plans to keep growing its overall headcount.

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Q&A with former NFL star Doug Baldwin about his new role as CEO of a Seattle healthcare startup

Since retiring from the NFL in 2019, former Seattle Seahawks star Doug Baldwin has dipped his toes in the tech industry, advising early-stage companies and investing in others.

Forecast for Amazon Prime Day is cloudy with a chance of consumer caution

Economic uncertainty, inflation, and the lingering effects of the pandemic are tempering expectations for this year’s Prime Day, the annual Amazon sales event that takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

Fred Hutch and Amazon collaborating on clinical trial to test vaccines against cancer

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is leveraging Amazon’s machine learning expertise to collaborate on an early-stage clinical trial testing an anti-cancer vaccine in patients with certain types of breast cancer or melanoma.

Feast your eyes on the first course of a celestial smorgasbord from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope

A day after NASA showed how far the James Webb Space Telescope could dive into the cosmic frontier, scientists released additional pictures demonstrating the observatory’s scientific breadth.

Spinning out science startups: UW’s Institute for Protein Design brings research beyond ivory tower

The Institute for Protein Design is an innovation factory.

We visited the world’s biggest carbon capture plant, which just signed a 10-year deal with Microsoft

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A short drive from Iceland’s capital, on a lava plateau blanketed with moss and grass, the earth exhales plumes of steam.

Hundreds of tech, business and nonprofit leaders urge states to boost computer science education

More than 500 business, education and nonprofit leaders have teamed with Seattle-based computer education nonprofit Code.org to issue a call to state governments and education leaders to bring more computer science opportunities to K-12 students across the U.S.

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