Paid sabbaticals can make the difference in retaining top talent. Here's proof.

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Crissie Hoskins' company paid her to take two months off work. It made her more passionate about her job.

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The distressing downside of fitness trackers

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Fitness trackers have taken over. But is the deluge of fitness data making Americans healthier?

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They started out as pioneering hip-hop moguls. They wound up running a drug empire.

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Mario Rosemond (center top) and his brother Jimmy (second from left) clawed their way from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the music industry.

The paradox of the American West: plenty of open land, but nowhere to build new homes

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The cost of housing in Western states is soaring. But the simple solution — build more houses — is proving difficult.

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Western states have plenty of wide open land. So why can't they build more homes?

How a single hard-charging CEO helped the US dollar take over the world

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By building a global bank, Citibank helped the US dollar become dominant.

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Gen Z is giving up on college

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In the wake of the pandemic and economic uncertainty, Gen Z is questioning whether college is worth it.

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As Hawaii mourns its dead, 'disaster vultures' are swooping in to make a quick buck

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Disaster vultures are investors who take advantage of people who lost their homes to natural disasters in order to turn a profit.

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As Hawaii mourns its dead, investors are swooping in to make a quick buck

A new study makes it official: Women are always the wrong age for employers

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Women in every age bracket reported facing workplace age discrimination.

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The looming crisis that's going to crush homeowners from coast to coast

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As the risk of wildfires and storms grows, owning a home is getting riskier — and it's showing up in the insurance market.

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Cinda Larimer was delivering newspapers on a cool November morning in Paradise, California, when she noticed something softly float down from the sky: ash.

From concert tickets to hotel reservations, everything you want to do now requires an infuriating app

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More people are wanting to cut back on their smartphone use. But we've made it nearly impossible to leave our phones behind.

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From concert tickets to hotel reservations, everything you want to do now requires an infuriating app

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