Business travel came back smaller, longer, and harder to book
Corporate trips recovered to pre-pandemic volumes in dollars — but fewer, extended trips replaced the quick sales visit, and travel managers now police the receipts.
Amara Okonkwo
Business developments reported for their consequences inside the organization. Coverage includes earnings that trigger cost programs, mergers and the integration that follows, executive appointments and departures, and restructurings that remove whole functions. The question in every item is which jobs the decision creates, changes or ends.
Corporate results, mergers and restructurings covered for their effect on staff: which teams grow, which functions vanish, and who decides.
Corporate trips recovered to pre-pandemic volumes in dollars — but fewer, extended trips replaced the quick sales visit, and travel managers now police the receipts.
Amara Okonkwo
Bankers opened the lending spigot for small firms through 2025, but the era of cheap money didn't come back with it.
Amara Okonkwo
The disclosed ratio of chief-executive pay to the median employee keeps widening — and it's the proxy statements, not the headlines, that explain why.
Amara Okonkwo
