This is it. The end of the 2022-2023 regular season. 

Week 18 is a bit of a bonus for football fans. Last year was the first, in fact. But it makes the playoff picture even more exciting. And the NFL, knowing this, didnt finalize the schedule until earlier this week, to spotlight the most important games in terms of playoff contention. 

Of course, after Mondays horrific on-field collapse of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, things got even more complicated, and both the Bills and Bengals will certainly have that in the back of their heads when they take the fieldas they are scheduled to do.

Most of the playoff berths are secured. But three spots remainone in the NFC and two in the AFC. And its a tight, tight race for those. 

In the NFC, three teams have 8-8 records. In the NFC, four do and the Titans are still in contention with a 7-9 record, due to their second place standing in the AFC South. And in both leagues, two teams fighting for a slot will face each other this week. 

Its bound to be riveting, even for people who are just part-time fans of the NFL. Heres a look at all of the matchups this week how best to catch the games.

Which NFL teams are playing this week? And what channels are airing the games?

Heres this weeks lineup. (The home team is listed second.) 

Saturday, Jan. 7

Kansas City Chiefs vs. Las Vegas Raiders, 4:30 p.m. ET on ESPN

Tennessee Titans vs. Jacksonville Jaguars, 8:15 p.m. ET on ESPN

Sunday, Jan. 8

New England Patriots vs. Buffalo Bills, 1:00 p.m. ET on CBS

Cleveland Browns vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, 1:00 p.m. ET on CBS

Houston Texans vs. Indianapolis Colts, 1:00 p.m. ET on CBS

Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Atlanta Falcons, 1:00 p.m. ET on Fox

Carolina Panthers vs. New Orleans Saints, 1:00 p.m. ET on Fox

Minnesota Vikings vs. Chicago Bears, 1:00 p.m. ET on Fox

New York Jets vs. Miami Dolphins, 1:00 p.m. ET on Fox

Baltimore Ravens vs. Cincinnati Bengals, 1:00 p.m. ET on CBS

New York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles, 4:25 p.m. ET on CBS

Los Angeles Chargers vs. Denver Broncos, 4:25 p.m. ET on CBS

Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Commanders, 4:25 p.m. ET on Fox

Los Angeles Rams vs. Seattle Seahawks, 4:25 p.m. ET on Fox

Arizona Cardinals vs San Francisco 49ers, 4:25 p.m. ET on Fox

Detroit Lions vs. Green Bay Packers, 8:20 p.m. ET on NBC

How can I watch NFL games for freeeven if I am out of market?

The best way to watch any sort of network programming for free on a big screen is with a good HD antenna. And watching most NFL games is fairly simple, since many air on broadcast networks, meaning youll be able to watch even if you dont have a cable subscription. To ensure youre getting the most reliable signal, be sure to test the antenna in multiple locations in your home.

Can I stream NFL games live online if I dont have a cable subscription?

Yep, with several methods available: 

Peacock

NBCs streaming service will give you access to several games, including all Sunday night matchups. You can get a seven-day free trial, followed by a $5 or $10 monthly charge. (The free version of Peacock does not include live sports.)

Paramount+

CBS streaming service will give you access to games aired on that network. You can get a one-week free trial, followed by a $5 or $10 monthly charge.

Disney+

Disneys bundle of Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ no longer has a free trial, so youll have to pay $13.99 per month for all three combined (or $19.99 per month for no ads on Hulu). Including Live TV in the bundle bumps the price to $70 per month ($76 with no ads). 

Hulu with Live TV

The free trial on this service is no longer offered, as well. It will cost you $70 per month.

YouTubeTV

After up to a two-week trial, you can expect monthly charges of $65.

Sling TV

Dish Networks Sling recently increased its prices. The lower-tiered Orange plan will now run you $40 per month. Adding the more comprehensive Blue plan bumps the cost to $55 per month. (A $5 per month increase for each.) The seven-day free trial has disappeared along with the price increase, but the cord-cutting service is offering 50% off of the first months bill.

DirecTV Stream

Formerly known as DirecTV Now, AT&T TVNow and AT&T TV, this oft-renamed streaming service will run you $70 per month and up after the free trial option.

Fubo TV

This sports-focused cord-cutting service carries broadcast networks in most markets. Theres a seven-day free trial, followed by monthly charges of $70$100, depending on the channels you choose.

Can I watch NFL games on Amazon?

Yes, but not today or tomorrow. Amazon is, for the next 11 years, the exclusive home to Thursday Night Football and no longer streams weekend games. The next matchup will see the Jacksonville Jaguars face the New York Jets on Dec. 22. 

Does the NFL offer any viewing packages to watch the games I want?

A trio of them. 

NFL App

The NFL App will let you stream games that are being broadcast locally in your market on Sundays. If you want to watch an out of market game, youve got two choices.

NFL+ 

Watch live local and out of market games and (with the premium subscription) replays. Theres a seven-day free trial, after which youre looking at a $30 charge per season. ($80 for premium.) 

NFL Sunday Ticket

DirecTV customers have access to it, but (if you meet the conditions, like living in an apartment complex or some area where you cant get DirecTV) you can also sign up for an online version, letting you watch any NFL game live this season. Theres a one-week trial, then youre looking at monthly charges of $73.49 per month for a four-month period or $293.36 for the entire season (or $99 for four months or $396).

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Whether its the workaholic, the girl boss, or the hyper-productive startup founder who runs on black coffee and two hours of sleep, youve probably witnessed some form of hustle culture in action. The need to perform and over-perform has made it incredibly challenging to keep up with the continuously cycling hamster wheel that is the demands of work. 

But as people have started to quietly quit and advocate for mental health benefits at the officeand maybe even some semblance of work-life balancemany have began to view hustle culture as a societal problem more than a way to climb the ranks.  

Theres this misnomer, this belief that constant hustle and stress are fundamentally intertwined with success and so we see busyness as a source of pride, Dr. Jacinta Jiménez, a psychologist, author of, The Burnout Fix and the vice president of coach innovation at BetterUp, tells Fortune. It gets us trapped in this shared delusion that relentless productivity and constant hustle only come with rewards, only an upsidenot at a costly price. 

And maybe worst of all is that hustle culture doesnt end when you feel depleted or burned outthe opposite tends to happen. Once youre in its grips, constant productivity becomes routine and you churn away even more to try to wipe out the competition. 

Many of us also believe that in order to stay on our competitive edge, we dont need to just be constantly moving, Jiménez says. We have to move faster and with more speed.

When will it ever be enough? 

In college, I recall being in the library late into the evening, overhearing conversations about how little sleep people got the night before as if it was a badge of honor. They thought the brain was limitless and that forgoing rest would set them apart. Many of us now refer to this thinking as toxic productivity, and frankly, it is a detriment to overall well-being, but putting a label on it doesnt make it easy to wave hustle culture away.

Were actually wired to tolerate stress in small doses. The real culprit is chronic stress without recovery or rest, Jiménez says. 

Research corroborates this: chronic stress can lead to health problems like heart disease and hypertension. Constant stress can also lead to anxiety and depression and put people at risk for other serious mental health challenges. And hustle culture may not make us more productive after all. So how do we get out of the vicious cycle?

First, Jiménez wants us to remember we are a product of a fast-paced culture where people desire purpose and belonging. Its no shock we get sucked into corporations, schools, and workplaces that promote hustle culture. Bottom line: its not our fault, but we can still take back some control.  

Rest is not a reward 

Similar to how our physical bodies need stretch, rest, and recovery after going to the gym in order to show up powerful again the next day, our brain needs breaks to recharge in order to retain more information. 

I dont think rest should be a reward, Jiménez says. It is a biological imperative for us to perform. 

People may roll their eyes at the idea of prioritizing rest, knowing they dont have enough time in the day to get all of their tasks doneand this may be on top of caring for children or aging parents. While its no mystery that many people face constant overload, even small breaks can make a difference, Jiménez says, underscoring the power of starting small so you can institute these changes in your day. When you find a way to balance stress with rest, you become more competent at overcoming challenges. 

The most resilient people who are able to also evade that hustle culture are the ones who strategically leverage rest and replenishment in order to perform, Jiménez says. 

Put holes into your calendar 

To make sustainable changes, practice blocking off small amounts of time on your calendar for rest or a break meant to energize rather than deplete you (think: walk, journal, read, meditate). 

Its really about strategically looking at moments where you have a high intensity sprint with your team, or you have something thats going to be highly stressful and thinking about how you can put ineven on a day to day basis, if I have a stressful meeting with this person whos like an energy vampire for mea 30-minute micro moment of rest and recovery, Jiménez says. 

A 10-minute microbreak, which can help restore your energy and even improve job performance, can look like watching a funny video, texting or calling a friend, stretching, doodling, or even walking through a doorway. 

Dont hustle your self care 

We can, ironically, go overboard on taking care of ourselves and become stressed about the time not meant for disciplined work. Feeling overwhelmed about not being able to meditate, run, or call a friend every day becomes counterintuitive to the benefits of these acts in the first place. We may even feel stressed about how well we are taking care of ourselves when we choose to do something outside of work, especially in comparison to others. 

The TikTok trend that coined 5-to-9 before the 9-to-5 shows glamorous yet often wholly unrealistic 4-hour morning routines filled with meditations, green juices, stretching, and affirmations before the work day. With idealized routines posted across the internet, it can seem like succeeding at self-care requires hustle.

Its easy to put pressure on our downtimesome even lose sleep to knock out self-care before the crack of dawn. We can end up feeling the same about seemingly relaxing tasks as we do about work. 

Instead, practice listening to your body and giving yourself grace when performing self-care. After all, this is your time to enjoy. 

We want to perform at not performing, Jiménez says. And we have to be really careful about setting that ideal version or vision of success. 

Create flexible rules 

Make rules around when you check your phone or who you will respond to if youre in the middle of a task. Rigid boundaries rarely get followed, Jiménez says, so saying you will respond to texts from your family group chat but no one else for an hour is an example of a flexible rule that can help with feeling more rejuvenated and less in the hustle mentality.  

The power of focus 

Hustle culture feeds on the myth of multitasking: that it will make you more productive. 

Dr. Marc Milstein, author of The Age-Proof Brain: New Strategies to Improve Memory, Protect Immunity, and Fight Off Dementia, previously told Fortune that multitasking makes us more forgetful because we dont take as much time to process information and store it in long-term memory. 

People are surprised how much more they remember when they just slow down a bit in a world where we are forced to multitask and move to the next, he says. 

Limiting multitasking can hit two birds with one stone: help us evade hustle culture and make us more efficient. 

Its ok to be human at work and set limits 

Hustling and trying to be productive can make us feel like mere cogs in a machine. It can make it incredibly difficult to speak up in work settings and show vulnerability, but setting boundaries and advocating for working conditions that suit your needs can prove beneficial, experts tell Fortune. 

Knowing the difference between when work necessitates going above and beyond versus when hustle culture is leading the way can help.

Your whole life is in your phone, and you have to decide when you want to close it, Esther Perell, bestselling author and psychotherapist, previously told Fortune. 

Check in with yourself to ensure youre not blindly abiding by hustle cultureand consider seeking the help of a therapist if needed to hold you accountable.  

Smart work, like productivity hacks, are important, but theres a missing piece of the puzzle, Jiménez says. That is just taking care of our minds and our well-being.  

Twitter Inc., under new owner Elon Musk, has made deeper cuts into its already radically diminished trust and safety team handling global content moderation, as well as to the unit related to hate speech and harassment, according to people familiar with the matter. 

At least a dozen more cuts on Friday night affected workers in the companys Dublin and Singapore offices, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing non-public changes. They included Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, the head of site integrity for Twitters Asia-Pacific region, a relatively recent hire; and Analuisa Dominguez, Twitters senior director of revenue policy.

Workers on teams handling the social networks misinformation policy, global appeals and state media on the platform were also eliminated. 

Ella Irwin, Twitters head of trust and safety, confirmed several members of the teams were cut but denied that they targeted some of the areas mentioned by Bloomberg. 

It made more sense to consolidate teams under one leader (instead of two) for example, Irwin said in an emailed response to a request for comment. 

She said Twitter did eliminate roles in areas of the company that didnt get enough volume to justify continued support. But she said that Twitter had increased staffing in its appeals department, and that it would continue to have a head of revenue policy and a head for the platforms Asia-Pacific region for trust and safety.

Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, partly financing the deal with almost $13 billion of debt that entailed interest repayments of around $1.5 billion a year. He has since embarked on a frantic mission to revamp the social-media platform, which he has said is at risk of going bankrupt and was losing $4 million a day as of early November. 

Speaking on a Twitter Spaces event last month, the mercurial entrepreneur likened the company to a plane that is headed towards the ground at high speed with the engines on fire and the controls dont work.

Since taking over the company, Musk has overseen firings or departures of roughly 5,000 of Twitters 7,500 employees and instituted a hardcore work environment for those remaining.

Twitter faces multiple suits over unpaid bills, including for private chartered plane flights, software services and rent at one of its San Francisco offices.

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Elon Musk wants his upcoming fraud trial with Tesla Inc. shareholders moved out of San Francisco, saying jurors in the region will probably be biased against him because of recent layoffs at Twitter Inc. and local negativity.

The billionaire who runs both Tesla and Twitter proposed the trial be held in western Texas, where Tesla moved its headquarters to Austin from northern California about a year ago, according to a filing by his attorneys late Friday.

A substantial portion of the San Francisco-area jury pool is likely to hold a personal and material bias against Mr. Musk as a result of recent layoffs at one of his companies as individual prospective jurors or their friends and relatives may have been personally impacted, the lawyers wrote. The existing baseline bias has been compounded, expanded, and reinforced by the negative and inflammatory local publicity surrounding the events.

Investors suing Tesla and Musk, its chief executive officer, argue that his August 2018 tweets about taking the electric-car maker private with funding secured were indisputably false and cost them billions of dollars by spurring wild swings in Teslas stock price. Musk has maintained that Saudi Arabias sovereign wealth fund had agreed to support his attempt to take Tesla private. The trial is set to begin January 17. 

To be clear, this motion is not being brought simply because Mr. Musk has been the subject of negative news coverage. Mr. Musk has been a public figure for more than a decade and recognizes that being the subject of negative and even unfair media attention comes with the territory, according to the filing. The local media and political establishment have attempted to depict Mr. Musk as personally responsible for causing material economic harm to the significant number of potential jurors impacted by the layoffs and to the City of San Francisco as a whole. 

Musk has sparred with Twitters hometown of San Francisco after turning some space at the companys Market Street headquarters into makeshift bedrooms, a possible violation of city building codes. Musk has also slammed Mayor London Breed over the citys fentanyl crisis. 

He bought Twitter for $44 billion in late October and installed himself as chief executive officer. After Teslas corporate headquarters moved to Austin in December 2021 the company still has a formidable presence in California. In a blog post this week, the company said it has 47,000 employees in the state. 

Musks attorneys think western Texas would offer a fairer venue than northern California.

Mr. Musk is far likelier to receive a fair trial in the Western District of Texas, they wrote. Mr. Musk has not been the subject of overwhelming, pervasive, and inflammatory press coverage by the local media in the Western District of Texas, like he has in this district. Texas news outlets publish far fewer stories about Mr. Musk.

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Following further delays this week, some former Twitter employees finally received their official severance agreements on Saturday after months of anticipation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. However, the compensation is much less than what many expected, and the emails are landing in spam folders.

After Elon Musk assumed control of the social media giant in late October, about three-fourths of the companys staff of 7,500 were let go in a series of cuts. Musk tweeted that those affected would receive 3 months of severance compensation. Previous Twitter leadership pledged to offer at least two months worth of severance pay as well as prorated performance bonuses, extended visa support, money for health care continuation, and the cash value of equity that would vest within three months, according to The Los Angeles Times.

However, as we previously reported, the agreements sent out today provide laid-off employees in the U.S. one month of base pay as severance. Those let go in November have been kept on the payroll and have been paid their regular salaries for the previous 60 days due to requirements of the federal WARN Act, which mandates companies give a 60-day notice before mass layoffs. Although those workers had been barred from the companys internal systems since November, they were formally let go on January 4 in accordance with the law.

Whats more, employees will not be receiving their prorated performance bonuses, according to Twitters severance material viewed by Fortune. Some employees received COBRA, which is money for health care continuation, a source said.

I mean I expected him to f**k us (he did), an impacted employee wrote to Fortune. This is about 1/3 of what he contractually owes us based on his purchase agreement.

Although employees were given two months pay during a non-working period to comply with the federal WARN Act, a lawyer for two class-action lawsuits against Twitter claimed that such money should not be included in the actual severance paid to employees, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Not all impacted employees received their agreements, multiple sources told Fortune. The agreements are being sent out by a third-party service provider called CPT Group, in lieu of in-house HR services. Its not yet clear why only some have received their agreements, but many have been finding the agreements in their spam folder, sources say.

Sources have pointed out some hiccups in the process, too. Those who received their agreements today were provided a unique login and directed to visit a domain, but that domain was set up roughly 5 hours before the severance agreements went out and doesnt have Twitters name in it, causing many to believe it was a phishing attempt.

After logging in and viewing their severance agreement, former employees have the option to sign or opt out of the agreement, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The website has an accompanying FAQ page stating that impacted employees can anticipate payment within 45 days of their signed agreement. A downloadable Additional FAQs document confirms that employees will not be receiving performance bonus payments, which were set to be paid out in March, and that there will be no negotiation of the agreement or the severance amount listed.

As many as 5,500 laid-off Twitter employees were set to receive the official severance agreements, Fortune previously reported.

Fortune reached out to Twitter outside normal business hours but did not receive an immediate reply.

Billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff often conjures the Hawaiian concept of Ohana with regards to his company culture. It conveys the idea of family bonds that encourage people to be responsible for each other.

After an all-hands call at Salesforce on Thursday in which Benioff reportedly dodged questions about recently announced layoffs in a rambling, two-hour speech, the appropriateness of that concept came into question. 

A day earlier, the software giant said it would cut about 10% of its workforce, noting customers were taking a more measured approach to their purchasing decision in a challenging environment.

In an email to staff about the thousands of layoffs on Wednesday, Benioff again evoked Ohana and the idea of family bonds:

The employees being affected arent just colleagues, he wrote. Theyre friends. Theyre family. Please reach out to them. Offer the compassion and love they and their families deserve and need now more than ever. And most of all, please lean on your leadership, including me, as we work through this difficult time together.

Avoiding the topic at hand

But judging by reactions to his speech and the unanswered questions, employees were not feeling the Ohana. On an internal Slack channel intended for questions during the meeting, according to Insider, one employee asked: 

Given how little of this call has addressed the layoffs, the questions asked in this channel, and the family who were laid off, should we consider retiring the phrase Ohana?'

Other posts in the Slack channel reportedly included, Is Marc filibustering 47,600+ employees right now by talking in circles and avoiding the topic at hand? and Im sure many of the 10s of thousands of people on this call could be getting things done rather than listening to an unstructured conversation about the business when most people came with very specific questions they hoped would be addressed.

Benioff did seem to briefly refer to the layoffs in his speech, but in a way that likened them to deaths, according to Insider: 

At the kickoff every year, you know, we, um, have a moment where we always say goodbye to everyone whos died during the year, he said. And, um, loss is really difficult, and losing folks, and especially losing our trusted colleagues and our managers or employees, its very similar, uh, in a lot of ways for me. We need to kind of acknowledge that and give ourselves time to mourn and kind of be able to move forward. 

A company blog post from 2017 entitled The Real Meaning Behind Salesforce Community' states: In Hawaiian culture, Ohana represents the idea that familiesblood-related, adopted, or intentionalare bound together, and that family members are responsible for one another. When [Beniofff] created Salesforce in 1999, he made sure that Ohana was in the companys foundations.

Salesforce did not immediately respond to Fortunes request for comments.

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As Fortune reported yesterday, Indias aviation regulator scolded Air India this week for being unprofessional and devoid of empathy in its handling of a bizarre incident in late November, in which a male passenger allegedly urinated on a woman during a Nov. 26 flight from New York to Delhi.

Now that male passenger, who had traveled in business class, has been identified as a vice president at Wells Fargo. Indian police arrested the executive, Shankar Mishra, on Saturday.

The bank said in a statement on late Friday that it had terminated Mishra, who worked at its subsidiary in India, and was cooperating with local law enforcement, adding in a short statement it found the incident deeply disturbing. Fortune reached out to Wells Fargo outside normal business hours but did not receive an immediate reply.

In a statement sent to Fortune, Air India said it acknowledges that it could have handled these matters better, both in the air and on the ground.

Mishra faces charges under Indian law of obscenity, sexual harassment, and insulting the modesty of a woman. According to The Hindu, a Delhi court sent him to 14-day judicial custody.

Air India, owned by Tata Group, said it banned Mishra from its flights for a month.

In India, news of the incident sparked widespread outrage on social media, with many criticizing the airline for not reporting the matter to police until weeks had passed. 

The victim, whose name has not been released, wrote a complaint to Air Indias chairman the day after the event, demanding an immediate arrest of Mishra.

Air India said in its statement to Fortune that it acknowledged receipt of the letter and commenced engaging in correspondence with the affected passengers family on Nov. 30. It added that it commenced a ticket refund on Dec. 2 and convened various meeting in the following weeks. When the victims family requested on Dec. 26 that the airline lodge a complaint with police, it said, it did so two days later.

After the incident, the crew reportedly brought Mishra face-to-face with the victim against her wishes, and he begged her for forgiveness.

That didnt go over well. 

In my already distraught state, I was further disoriented by being made to confront and negotiate with the perpetrator of the horrific incident at close quarters, she wrote in her statement to the chairman, included in the police complaint from Air India.

She also complained about the way the crew handled the incident, including initially refusing her request to change seats and merely spraying her urine-soaked shoes and bags with disinfectant. 

On Friday, Indias airline regulator reminded airlines to sensitize cabin crew and pilots on topic of unruly passengers, who it said should be dealt with strictly. It added that complaints must be filed to aviation authorities promptly, and warned that non-compliance will invite enforcement action. 

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