Science-backed tips for settling into your new work-from-home routine

Good morning, To help thwart the spread of COVID-19, we need more tests. We also need more accessible [Compass] [Presented by](thrivemarket.com/FastCompany) [THRIVE MARKET](thrivemarket.com/FastCompany) Good morning, To help thwart the spread of COVID-19, we need more tests. We also need more accessible tests—tests that can sidestep labs that may be backed up for days, tests that burden our medical practitioners less, and even tests that we can administer ourselves, from the quarantine of our own homes. Scanwell Health plans to launch a $70 COVID-19 test within 6-8 weeks. Once it receives FDA approval, they’ll overnight it to your home, where it will be up to you to take your own blood, apply it to a testing strip, and await results in 13 minutes. But how do you train a layperson to do a nurse’s job—and do it right, the first time? And how do you get someone over the fear of taking their own blood? [Read our story here](. —[Mark Wilson]( [Bernie Sanders picks a Twitter fight with Everlane’s CEO]( [Bernie Sanders picks a Twitter fight with Everlane’s CEO]( After Everlane laid off much of its customer service team, Sanders accused the company of union busting. [fastcompany.com]( [How to design a user-friendly COVID-19 test]( [How to design a user-friendly COVID-19 test]( Americans may soon be able to screen themselves for COVID-19 at home. But designing the perfect kit is no simple task. [fastcompany.com]( [How businesses could emerge better after COVID-19, according to B Lab]( [How businesses could emerge better after COVID-19, according to B Lab]( “This is an opportunity for us to focus on both how business and government play a role in building a more resilient economic system for the next crisis.” [fastcompany.com]( [Science-backed tips for settling into your new work-from-home routine]( [Science-backed tips for settling into your new work-from-home routine]( This may be the “new normal,” but that doesn’t mean the transition to social distancing or remote work is easy. These techniques can help. [fastcompany.com]( A MESSAGE FROM thrive market [2020 Is Your Year to Look + Feel Your Best]( [2020 Is Your Year to Look + Feel Your Best]( Extra 25% off your first order + FREE 30-day trial membership from Thrive Market. Join 600,000+ members to get access to the best quality, healthy and sustainable products, delivered at member-only prices. 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[fastcompany.com]( [HBO’s ‘The Scheme’ reveals that 2017’s NCAA bribery scandal was crazier than you thought]( [HBO’s ‘The Scheme’ reveals that 2017’s NCAA bribery scandal was crazier than you thought]( “If the Coen brothers did a documentary …” HBO’s ‘The Scheme’ unpacks the tangled web that could’ve brought the NCAA to its knees. [fastcompany.com]( [On the front lines of today’s Amazon warehouse walkout: A labor organizer fired, another COVID-19 case]( [On the front lines of today’s Amazon warehouse walkout: A labor organizer fired, another COVID-19 case]( A few dozen workers walked off the job today at the retail giant’s fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York—with the company firing a protest organizer by the end of the day claiming that he broke quarantine. [fastcompany.com]( [How one tech company avoided layoffs even when revenue was cut in half]( [How one tech company avoided layoffs even when revenue was cut in half]( By asking for voluntary pay cuts, Gravity Payments avoided laying off 40 workers. [fastcompany.com]( [Andrew Cuomo's PowerPoints are COVID-19 information design at its best]( [Andrew Cuomo's PowerPoints are COVID-19 information design at its best]( They’re really, really good. [fastcompany.com]( [When hackers kidnap their data, companies are increasingly using ‘breach coaches’ and negotiators]( [When hackers kidnap their data, companies are increasingly using ‘breach coaches’ and negotiators]( Cyberinsurers can help providers recover from digital attacks or even make ransom payments to recover lost data. 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