Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• L'Oreal buys Aesop in smart bet on clean beauty for millennials (Bloomberg)
• The 'King Kong' of weight loss drugs is coming (WSJ)
• 'Hot Ones' was a slow burn all along (NYT)
• Canada's downtown office vacancy rate hits 19 percent as workers embrace remote work (Globe and Mail)
• The new rules of layoffs (WSJ)