Veteran analysts say the world's biggest private-equity firm could be in big trouble

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The most hated workplace software on the planet

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"Getting someone onboarded using Workday is like trying to get water from your sink to your stove using a colander," said one director at a startup.

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Botox injections are at an all-time high. Blame remote work.

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In a remote world, the hottest status symbol is your face. It's driving a Botox boom.

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Everything you shouldn't do during a home renovation

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Our yearlong cottage renovation stretched out more than three years. The work still isn't done.

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America generates 40 million tons of plastic waste a year — and it can't be recycled

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Americans produce 40 million tons of plastic waste each year. And it has to go somewhere.

Carl Godfrey for BI

The new first rule of home buying: fire your realtor

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The best part of (briefly) having an agent was realizing just how much I had already figured out on my own.

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Last summer, when I told my then-girlfriend that I had just hired a real-estate agent to help me buy an apartment, her response annoyed me: "Sounds like a scam."

AI bots are replacing Gen Z influencers. Maybe that's a good thing.

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Genz's fading dreams of fame because of AI
Gen Zers want to be influencers. But the industry is getting more competitive — and flooded with AI.

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The biggest secret at work: your office crush

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All around the office, your managers, direct reports, and peers are spending some untold portion of company time daydreaming about or flirting with each other.

Mikel Jaso for BI

Our AI future is about to make one basic resource insanely valuable

Tech Insider : Economy
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The algorithms that undergird our digital lives are increasingly making questionable decisions that enrich the powerful and wreck the lives of average people.

Claire Merchlinsky for BI

The implosion of the 'typical American family'

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The typical American family — a happily married mother and father with two children who live under one roof — has slowly deteriorated over the last 50 years.

Mark Harris for BI

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