Click’s Sumi Das reports from inside Google on the company’s quest to perfect workplace efficiency by going the extra mile for their employees.

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VIDEO: Inside Google’s lair

Thousands of public sector workers go on strike in Norway, in a pay dispute – the first walk-out by state employees since 1984.

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Norwegian workers in rare strike

Phillip Phillips, a 21-year-old pawnshop employee from Georgia with a gutsy vocal style, won the Fox talent competition “American Idol,” beating out Jessica Sanchez, a vocal prodigy.

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ArtsBeat: Phillip Phillips Wins ‘American Idol,’ Beating Out Jessica Sanchez

Forty-three groups are challenging the Obama administration’s rule that employees receive health insurance coverage for contraception.

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Catholics File Suits on Contraceptive Coverage

One was a lumber salesman who crippled a 78-year-old woman. Another was driving a toy company’s van when he killed a college sophomore. When a cable company guy rammed a stopped car at 71 mph, a woman and her mother died. A driver in a com­pany car didn’t react when traffic slowed, rear-ending a Honda in a chain-reaction crash that killed a 32-year-old woman. Read full article > >

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Employees use of cellphones while driving becomes a liability for companies

Over the last five years, Facebook employees have met with members of Congress and walked them through ways to best to use the Web site.

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Facebook Builds Network of Friends in Washington

While disappointing new investors who were betting on fast gains, Facebook had a wide winner’s circle, creating huge paper gains for scores of early insiders, hundreds of employees and some stragglers who bought stakes recently.

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DealBook: After Buildup, a Modest Start for Facebook

Four high-ranking federal lab workers found a way to turn “per diem” funds for a temporary assignment into a steady flow of extra income — at taxpayers’ expense. The overpayments, discovered in an inspector general’s audit , boosted the annual pay of some of the employees by as much as $64,000. Read full article > >

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Energy Department cuts payments to 4 federal lab workers

A Russian court jails an employee of a defence plant in the Urals for spying, in a case said to involve submarine-based nuclear missiles.

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Man jailed for spying in Russia

A Senate committee approved legislation Wednesday allowing same-sex partners of federal employees to receive employment benefits. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act with a bipartisan voice vote. It must be approved by the full Senate and the House before enactment. Read full article > >

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Senate panel approves benefits for same-sex partners of federal employees

The company’s audit committee said Richard Schulze, also the chain’s founder, failed to report an inappropriate relationship between the former chief executive and an employee.

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Chairman of Best Buy, Richard Schulze, to Step Down

A fire sweeps through a department store in the southern Philippines, killing 17 employees who were sleeping in the shop.

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Philippines fire leaves 17 dead

A farming company prosecuted under corporate manslaughter is fined a record £187,500 plus £13,000 costs, over the death of an employee.

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Record fine over forklift death

The CIA director revealed only a few details about the 21-year-old woman, a secretary among spies. In the agency’s annual memorial service for employees killed on the job, then-director Leon Panetta announced that a new name had been inscribed with calligraphy inside the CIA’s Book of Honor : Barbara Annette Robbins, who had volunteered to go to Saigon during the Vietnam War and died in a 1965 car bombing at the U.S. Embassy. Read full article > >

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Barbara Robbins: A slain CIA secretary’s life and death

If it happens, the expected union of US Airways and American Airlines could be one of the last big legacy airline mergers. Maybe even the last one. Together, the two companies would create the largest airline in America as measured by number of employees, and the second-largest in terms of operating revenue. Read full article > >

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The Navigator: How a US Airways-American Airlines merger could affect travelers