Where did all the lifeguards go?

Tech Insider : Economy, Sports
A lifeguard chair on the beach.
Lifeguard shortages have devastated America's pools and beaches since 2020. It's not clear when the lifeguards will be back.

Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI

The long, strange decline of one of America's most influential brands

Tech Insider
A bowl of Chicken soup overflowing into smaller bowls

Tyler Le/BI

Editor's note: Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday. This story was first published on March 31.

Job interviews are about to get a whole lot more stressful

Tech Insider : Sports, Sports
A computer screen displaying analytics of a football player and a business man
Taking the S2, which measures cognitive capacities like your reaction time and ability to control distractions, feels like a cross between playing Pong and taking an eye exam.

Alberto Miranda for BI

America's crisis of meaningless work

Tech Insider : Economy
Image of a statue thinking and a briefcase.
Americans are increasingly feeling like their jobs are meaningless. It could be why they aren't engaged at work.

Ricardo Tomás for BI

American workers are not all right.

How fertility clinics are scaring young women into freezing their eggs

Tech Insider : Economy
Fertility clinics are targeting Gen Z — and young women are paying the price.
Fertility clinics are taking to social media to tell young people the earlier they can freeze their eggs, the better. But that's not always the case.

Abanti Chowdhury/BI

The retirement Catch-22

Tech Insider : Economy
old worker worries about his job prospects
Age discrimination undermines Larry Fink's "solution" to the retirement crisis.

Getty Images; LinkedIn; Chelsea Jia Feng/BI

The chancellor, his porn films, and the battle for America's soul

Tech Insider
Jow Gow and wife
Joe Gow and Carmen Wilson pursued porn as a hobby. Now they're fighting a battle over academic freedom.

Simone Lueck for BI

Praise be: Travel agents are back

Tech Insider : Travel, Economy, Travel
Photo illustration of a white glove holding up a vacation tray.
Travel agents are pitching overwhelmed millennials and Gen Zers a stress-free vacation.

Edmon de Haro for BI

Forget red and blue: America's real geographic divide is between bosses and their employees

Tech Insider : Economy
Flag map of the United States with a broken appearance, featuring money location pins roughly positioned over San Francisco, New York, and Miami

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

Housing is a basic need. No matter how expensive it gets, people still need somewhere to live.

Silicon Valley needs a new kind of savior

Tech Insider : Economy
Four neckties and a hammer
The clear way to save Silicon Valley is to return the industry to the people who actually build tech to solve problems.

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