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Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) have long been recommended to help patients manage treatment for diabetes.

But in recent years the medical tools have caught the attention of a larger cohort of folks who are interested in carefully tracking how certain behaviors, such as eating and exercising, can affect their overall health.

Roblox CEO David Baszucki admitted he was hooked on the wellness trend during an April interview with Fortune, telling the outlet he wears a CGM to track his sugar intake “at times,” adding, “I highly recommend CGMs for everyone.”

Now Baszucki—who also invests in research tied to this trend—is working on evangelizing his own employees to be CGM converts. He recently announced on X that Roblox would cover a one-month CGM subscription for employees, along with one-on-one health coaching sessions.

For more on this unique benefit and the ROI on healthy workers, keep reading here.CV

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Zoom founder Eric Yuan speaks before the Nasdaq opening bell ceremony on April 18, 2019 in New York City. (Credit: Kena Betancur/Getty Images)

Credit: Kena Betancur/Getty Images

When executive coach at TLS Leaders and leadership faculty at Stony Brook University, Loren Margolis, invited a client to a Zoom meeting in 2018, they asked why she wanted to go to a Zumba class.

Nowadays, it may be hard to imagine anyone mistaking “Zoom” for “Zumba”—almost as hard as it may be to fathom any workplace operating without help from one of the most widely-used video conferencing platforms in the world.

Zoom (then called Saasbee) was founded in 2011 by Eric Yuan, a former engineer at Cisco’s Webex, with the mission to bring “human connection” to the virtual workspace, all while helping companies cut the time and cost associated with having employees travel to meet with clients and coworkers in other cities, Aparna Bawa, Zoom’s COO, told HR Brew.

For more on how Zoom’s sudden rise shook up corporate workplaces, keep reading here.—MC

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Today’s top HR reads.

Stat: Nearly one-third (32%) of CHROs said they updated more than one job description in the past year as a result of AI-driven role changes. (SoftBank Vision Fund)

Quote: “I’m hearing of people having 30 direct reports…It’s not because the companies don’t have the money. In a lot of ways, it’s because of AI and the narratives out there about how collapsing the organization is better.”—David Markley, a former Amazon employee and current executive coach, on how efforts to shed middle management are affecting tech firms (the Wall Street Journal)

Read: A San Francisco startup is seeking to automate all jobs with AI as quickly as possible, but its founders haven’t given a ton of thought to what will happen after that. (the New York Times)

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