Because Mike Bloomberg-as-mayor hasn't been in the news enough today, promising a decrease in New Yorkers' standard of living and increase media meetings, now there is that salacious Seth Mnookin piece about Bloomberg News that us media types have been salivating for all day.

Sure, things are going to change now that Barack Obama is in charge, but did you know that it's already become much chiller to work for Mike Bloomberg than it's ever been before?

In the six years since Peter Grauer was named chairman of Bloomberg L.P., the most idiosyncratic excesses of the company’s culture have been steadily toned down. That trend has accelerated dramatically since Doctoroff came on board. The notorious White House Correspondents’ Dinner after-parties, which in years past attracted the likes of Jennifer Love Hewitt and Chloë Sevigny and featured ice-luge vodka shots, heaps of caviar, sushi bars, and sundae stations, are now staid to the point of being boring…

Recently, even the relentless demands the company puts on its employees have been eased. Last August, Bloomberg L.P. began allowing employees to request flextime, shorter workweeks, and the ability to work from home. This is a radical shift from the ethos laid out in Bloomberg by Bloomberg, which holds that “you’ve got to come in early, stay late, lunch at your desk, take projects home nights and weekends. The time you put in is the single most important controllable variable determining your future.” The rigid stylistic restrictions have been loosened, and the daily postmortems have been done away with as well.

So if you plan on getting a job at Bloomberg News (like there are any of those left) feel free to work from home…just don't expect the V.I.P. treatment of the old-school journalist set.