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

America has a serious ugly home problem

Tech Insider : Economy
Older man looking with disgust at a row of nearly identical houses
The nagging discontent with the aesthetic of new homes reveals big problems with how they're built — and even larger flaws in the American dream itself.

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/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.

It's suddenly a whole lot harder to get a promotion

Tech Insider : Economy
Man in suit looking up at a red ladder leaning against a bar chart that is too short to be practical

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

The shadowy new way employees are cheating their way to the top

Tech Insider : Economy
Shadow workers are immersed in darkness behind a screen
Across the globe, a wave of workers are secretly outsourcing parts or all of their jobs.

Lorenzo Matteucci for BI

Remi never intended to secretly outsource her job. It sort of just happened.

Crystal ball economics: What psychics can tell us about America's spending habits

Tech Insider : Economy
Photo illustration of a bill floating in a crystal ball.
How much a psychic costs is part business, part ... magic?

Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI

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

Work friends are over and maybe that's actually fine

Tech Insider : Economy
A sad Dog working at a desk with a post it note saying
Work friendships are dying out, and it may be for the best.

Martin Barraud/Getty, claylib/Getty, AndyL/Getty, Mark Weiss/Getty, vauvau/Getty, Tyler Le/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.

Gen Z's most trusted source for news: online comment sections

Tech Insider
Google studied GenZ's online information consumption habits, and they are wild.

Alexsl, Tovovan/Getty Images, Abanti Chowdhury/BI

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