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Despite millions of employees being called back to the office—even on a partial basis—the desire for remote work remains incredibly strong in the post-pandemic era. Recent polls from Gallup and Pebl suggest 90% to 98% of employees want to continue to work from home, or at least in a hybrid setup, but many employers are pushing back. Popular or not, businesses are tightening the reins on remote work—and it’s about to become even easier for your company to track whether you’re at the office . That’s because there’s a new feature being released on a program that millions of workers use every day to communicate. What is it, and how will it affect you? We talked to Jakub Křoustek, a threat operations analyst for Norton, best known for its suite of cybersecurity products, to find out. Get  Reader’s Digest ’s  Read Up newsletter for more tech news, cleaning, humor, travel and fun facts all week long. What is the newest way for companies to spy on you? Microsoft Teams is introd...

It was a royal shake-up a decade in the making: In late October, King Charles III publicly stripped his younger brother , Andrew, of his titles, honors and home over his ties to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. After this fall from grace, Queen Elizabeth II’s scandal-ridden second son will simply be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. A cloud of accusations about Andrew has hung over the royal family for years, but as more details have come to light—most recently in Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, which published on Oct. 21—the king was prompted into action. When announcing the change, Charles said the move was “necessary, notwithstanding the fact that [Andrew] continues to deny the allegations against him,” a reference to Giuffre’s repeated allegations that Andrew sexually abused her as a teenager. As of Nov. 3, mentions of the disgraced prince have been scrubbed from the royal family’s official site, with the king’s Oct. 30 announcement the only trace. While t...

We hear it all the time in true crime podcasts , headlines and neighborhood chatter: Call the cops. The cops showed up. Good cop, bad cop. But have you ever stopped to investigate where the word cop actually comes from and why we use it to refer to a police officer ? The term is so common that its true meaning has practically gone undercover in our everyday language. Naturally, I couldn’t just let this linguistic mystery walk free. So I put on my word-detective hat and tracked down Michael Adams, PhD, professor of English and linguistics at Indiana University. If anyone could crack the case of cop ‘s origin, I knew it would be him. Read on for the most arresting truth of all. Get  Reader’s Digest ’s  Read Up newsletter for more grammar , humor, travel, tech and fun facts all week long. Where do most people think the word cop came from? As is the case with many words, there are a few commonly believed theories about its origin story —and then there’s the truth. Let’s br...

Last spring, I was watching Jeopardy , like any self-respecting trivia nerd would, when champion Brendan Liaw asked host Ken Jennings to introduce him as—wait for it—a “stay-at-home son.” This wasn’t some joke category. The 27-year-old, who holds a master’s degree and won nearly $60,000 in three episodes, was dead serious. And the internet absolutely lost it. The consensus? “This guy is literally living my dream.” Look, 2025 has been a little weird, especially when it comes to “ living the dream .” For starters, we’ve spent the whole year watching tradwives trend by making sourdough and romanticizing doing laundry in linen aprons. (No judgment—I tried the sourdough thing too.) But then Liaw showed us that there’s actually a male version of this whole movement, and it has nothing to do with cottagecore aesthetics or churning butter. “Some people might see this as the ‘easy’ way out, but honestly, I think it was harder than a traditional nine-to-five,” says Rick Johnson, who spent 15 y...

When we’re kids, one of the first ways we can differentiate ourselves is by answering a simple question: What’s your favorite color? It’s such an innocuous question, and yet the answer has endless consequences. If you’re a small child who answers green , chances are you’re in for years and years of receiving green-tinged gifts until you feel confident enough to announce your preferences have changed. Favorite colors are interesting because, ultimately, they can tell a lot about us, from our current mood to our overall disposition. Crayola, which has to be the world’s largest purveyor of crayons , decided to poll the world to find out how people feel about color, homing in on different generations and the hues (and crayons) they love most. They compiled the results in the first-ever Global Color Vote, and their findings? Interesting. To understand more about the psychology of color and the Crayola findings, we spoke to Stefanie Mazer, PsyD, a licensed psychologist practicing in Flori...