Bloomberg Learning new skills is taking on greater significance at manufacturer Zero Point 8 in the UK’s industrial heartland. For workers, it’s about staying employed and healthy. For the company, it’s about keeping afloat. Social distancing rules that dictate production can only continue safely if workers are two meters apart means splitting them into two shifts. Some staff at the ...

Bloomberg Bayer AG’s Werner Baumann has a return engagement with shareholders after an unprecedented rebuke last year. Though an avalanche of Roundup litigation has grown, the chief executive officer appears to be on firmer footing this time around. While Baumann has failed to settle claims with more than 50,000 US plaintiffs who say the weedkiller caused cancer, he has drawn ...

Bloomberg The German government has brought in SAP SE and Deutsche Telekom AG to help develop an app to trace Covid-19 infections as European governments look to national champions to help build solutions to the pandemic. “Deutsche Telekom and SAP will play their part in Germany and throughout Europe to ensure that European digital technologies are a central component in ...