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☆ Remote Work Is Gutting Downtowns, Will Cost Cities $453 Billion
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Emil Skandul | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Even 2 1/2 years later, most city downtowns aren't back to where they were prepandemic. Without more-robust policies to address failing downtowns, cities are going to start hurting. The increased cancellations of office leases have cratered the office real-estate market. Since 2016, only 112 commercial office spaces in the US have been converted, while 85 projects are underway or have been announced, according to CBRE's data. The birth of the central social districtTo avoid a commercial real-estate apocalypse, cities will need to streamline conversions.

☆ Why labor economists say the remote work 'revolution' is here to stay
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

ZipRecruiter, another job site, found a fourfold increase in job listings mentioning remote work, to a 12% total share. In all, remote work translates to roughly 4% more hours worked during a 40-hour week. "People really, really want remote work," Pollak said, adding: "It's difficult to put the genie back in the bottle." 'Significant variation' in remote work opportunitiesThat said, most jobs in the U.S. economy can't be done remotely. People really, really want remote work.

☆ Conscious spending: Personal finance that's smart and fun
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

You don’t have to think or feel this way, thanks to a flexible personal finance approach called conscious spending. “Conscious spending is all about spending extravagantly on the things you love, as long as you cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t. But a conscious spending plan allows you to say, “Yes, I want to go on vacation. Rewiring your spending habitsThe term “conscious spending” implies that people experience unconscious spending, said Bradley Klontz, a financial psychologist and associate professor of practice at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business in Omaha, Nebraska. Or should I not?’”If you want to give conscious spending a shot, try it for a month.

☆ 100-hour workweeks and a bit of luck: How a 25-year-old CEO raised $50 million for his new drug discovery startup
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Andrew Dunn | Sarah Braner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

In June, Charm said it raised $50 million, valuing the firm at $100 million to $150 million. Charm has raised $50 million from top investorsDemis Hassabis, the CEO and a cofounder of DeepMind Technologies. In the spring, Aithani raised the $37 million million round that was announced in June, with investors like Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst joining OrbiMed and F-Prime Capital. The raise values Charm at between $100 million and $150 million, Aithani said, and brings the company's total funding to $50 million. This article was corrected on August 19 to show that Charm has raised two rounds of funding totaling $50 million.

☆ Sleep deprivation affects nearly half of American adults, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The analysis also found over 30% of adults reported an hour of sleep debt -— when you sleep less than your body needs — while nearly 1 in 10 adults had a sleep debt of two hours or more. “This is a well done study examining a very large and representative sample,” said Dr. Bhanu Prakash Kolla, a sleep medicine specialist in the Center for Sleep Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Social jet lagIn addition, nearly half of the adults in the study reported social jet lag – a bad fit between the sleep timing preferred by a person’s inner biological clock and the one dictated by society. Over 46% of the survey participants reported at least 1 hour of social jet lag, while 19.3% experienced at least 2 hours. Untreated social jet lag can have serious consequences, including insomnia, early waking or excessive sleepiness, daytime fatigue, difficulty concentrating, constipation or diarrhea and increased cortisol levels.

☆ A diary of Elon Musk's totally chaotic first week of owning of Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Grace Kay | Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Twitter has had a chaotic week since Elon Musk officially took over the company. From plans to gut staff to forcing 12-hour workdays and sparring with celebrities, here's a timeline of Musk's first week at Twitter. The Elon Musk train is finally rolling through Twitter and leaving a wake of chaos and significant change. Employees at Twitter have been bracing for Musk's takeover for months, predicting disorder and confusion as the will-he-won't-he saga came to an end officially last week. If you're hazy on some of the pandemonium surrounding Musk's first week at Twitter, we've compiled a full timeline of the events.

☆ Twitter employees describe their recent workdays as a combination of chaos and 'no communication' as they wait to see who still has a job
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The NYT's Hard Fork podcast recently interviewed two current Twitter employees. Both Twitter employees also used pseudonyms for the interview. In the podcast, Mockingjay described the past few days as an interminable cycle of anxiety. Mockingjay told the hosts that employees at Twitter were falling into one of two camps. "I wouldn't get asked at work to completely revamp Twitter Blue by Friday.

☆ A real estate investor has brought in $1 million on 5 wholesale deals in 2022. He explains what wholesaling is and how to make money doing it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

At 28, he became a multi-millionaire and felt comfortable leaving his 9-to-5 to double down on real estate. Today, the 30-year-old investor makes the majority of his money from real estate wholesaling. How to start real estate wholesaling in 4 stepsIf you want to give wholesaling a shot, it's possible to do so on a smaller scale. His favorite wholesaling books include: "The Real Estate Wholesaling Bible," "If You Can't Wholesale After This: I've Got Nothing For You," and "The Best Wholesaling Book Ever." Do a Google search to find a community in your zip code and start attending local real estate meet-ups.

☆ My 'glamorous' van life involved a lot of sacrifices. Here's how I built it and what it's like working on the road.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Mariah Arianna, 30, lives and works out of a van with her partner as a digital nomad. Arianna says even though van life appears glamorous, the lifestyle requires a lot of sacrifices. I was enamored with living life anywhere but home. I was working with a lot of clients in Frankfurt and was able to get a long-term work visa to stay in the country. I usually work in small coffee shops, local libraries, or inside our van, which is very bright and open.

☆ I'm one of 11 writers on 'Abbott Elementary.' The job is just as fun as it seems — we argue about whose joke is best and collaborate on every episode.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Courtesy of Cerise CastleThe first episode I wrote for season two of "Abbott" was episode four, "Principal's Office," which aired in October. We always have a lot of fun in the writers room. At the same time, other writers get at least a joke or a substantial moment in another writer's episode. Writers are on set during filming to help problem solveThe job of a writer on set is really to problem solve. It's come up in the "Abbott" writers' room occasionally when we're casting and someone will say, "Hey, what about this person?"

☆ Can You Get Ahead and Still Have a Life? Younger Women Are Trying to Find Out
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Rachel Feintzeig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Deijha Martin , 26 years old, works as a data analyst from her Bronx, N.Y., apartment. On workdays, she’ll chip away at a task until 5:10 p.m. or 5:20 p.m., but never 6 p.m. She loves travel, and earlier this year tapped her company’s unlimited vacation policy to jet to Greece and France. Having boundaries is a priority, but make no mistake: She’s plenty ambitious.

☆ How an $18-an-hour Amazon warehouse job cured one former tech exec's burnout
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

It's been a wild week in tech, made even more wild by Elon Musk's Twitter deal closing last night. We've got a ton of news this morning, including an account from a longtime tech exec who took a job at an Amazon fulfillment center to help cure his burnout. How an $18-an-hour Amazon warehouse job cured one tech exec's burnout. He decided to quit his CEO job and, eventually, take on a seasonal role at an Amazon fulfillment center. How Elon Musk's "autocratic leadership" will change Twitter.

☆ Amazon workers say minor aches suddenly became debilitating as they raced to meet speed targets
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

At the DuPont warehouse, Amazon workers with such injuries took an average of 103 days to heal, Washington state found. Workers' compensation payouts to Amazon workers with musculoskeletal disorders are often in the tens of thousands of dollars — some exceed $100,000, data from Washington state shows. But because musculoskeletal disorders take months to develop and aren't as visible as other, more catastrophic injuries, even some Amazon workers write them off. Williams was out of work for more than 150 days because of her shoulder injury, internal Amazon injury logs show. The company needs to become "Earth's Safest Place to Work," Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, said in his final letter to shareholders last year.

☆ I coordinated sex scenes for 'Blonde,' the new NC-17 Marilyn Monroe biopic with Ana De Armas. Here's how I protect actors' boundaries.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jean Franzblau, an intimacy coordinator based in Los Angeles, CA. My first intimacy coordinator job was 'Blonde,' Netflix's new NC-17 filmThe original intimacy coordinator who worked on "Blonde," the new Marilyn Monroe biopic, recommended that I replace her when she had to leave the production. Luckily, it worked out well — and once recommended, getting my first intimacy coordinator job on a big production was smooth. Just like any production job, work can be sporadicSometimes I'm working as an intimacy coordinator, and sometimes I'm not. The best way to get started as an intimacy coordinator is to start with student films and short films.

☆ 'Deadly drop': Hotel housekeeper faces avalanche of laundry showing desperate hotel labor shortage in viral TikTok posts
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-21 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One housekeeper uses TikTok to show how much laundry she must fold in an 8-plus hour shift. Zeiber's TikTok videos showing what she calls "deadly drops" from a linen chute into the hotel's laundry room, have gone viral, shocking viewers. In the comments section of her account, Zeiber clarified that she is not the only housekeeper at the hotel, but she's the only person responsible for laundry. Sometimes her workdays last beyond eight hours and include more than just laundry, according to Zeiber. Kasea Zeiber is the only housekeeper responsible for folding laundry in an 126-room hotel in the Pittsburgh area.

Our experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here's how). Now, I spend $725 a month on lawn care, housecleaning, and meal kits, and I wish I'd done it sooner. They taught me that you don't spend money you don't have, a rule I took so seriously I never had a single cent of consumer debt to my name (not even student loans). Spending money this way has given me back a lot of mental space, energy, and hours in the day. This is where spending money looks more like an investment than a waste of funds.

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Aspiring titans filed more than 5 million business applications in 2021, according to data from the US Census Bureau. Starting a business in a pandemic or in uncertain economic times demands flexibility, agility, and originality. In July 2020, she launched Cafe Cà Phê in Kansas City, Missouri, and made six figures in sales in 2021, Insider verified with documentation. The couple booked nearly $4 million in revenue in 2021, Insider verified with documentation. "Identifying what activities you're doing day to day that raise your energy and recharge you, and what drains you."

Amid disorganization on the ship during an extensive overhaul, Crisostomo said she was constantly berated for things out of her control. On April 15, Master-at-Arms Seaman Recruit Xavier Hunter Sandor died by suicide onboard the George Washington, according to the Navy and the state chief medical examiner’s office. The USS George Washington during its mission in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in 2017. The Navy has directed leaders on the ship to identify sailors who could benefit from morale and personal well-being programs, Myers said. But she said the root of the problem is not the shipyard, or the ship itself, but “toxic leadership” on the George Washington.

☆ A youth mental-health crisis is crushing working parents — and employers need to pay attention.
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-13 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The upshot: Today's working parents are under enormous pressure, and their stress has quickly gone from leaking into their professional life to crashing through the floodgates. It's up to employers, experts say, to help working parents manage their priorities and offer flexibility to face this daunting reality. Recognizing the pressures that exist for working parents right now is a good starting point. Importantly, she said, working parents need to be self-compassionate. "What our children need from us changes, and the roles we need to play for them change," she said.

☆ All the best products we’ve tested in 2021 (so far)
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-03 | by ( Cnn Underscored Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +62 min

Best coffee subscription: Blue Bottle (starting at $11 per shipment; bluebottle.com)Blue BottleBlue Bottle’s coffee subscription hit all of our marks during the testing process. This mask, though, formed the best seal around the edges, blocking out more light than any other mask we tested. Not only does it keep your drinks hot or cold for many hours, it’s solidly durable and has the best lid we’ve ever tested. Best smart display: Amazon Echo Show 8 ($99.99, originally $129.99; amazon.com)AmazonThe Echo Show 8 is the best smart display we tested, with a versatile 8-inch screen in a build that really fits anywhere. Best smart thermostat: Nest Learning Thermostat ($223, originally $229; amazon.com)GoogleThe Nest Learning Thermostat studies your habits and controls the temperature in your home automatically.

☆ Luxury resort quarantines — Gen Z's 'old money' aesthetic — Infinity-pool shortage
▼ + stars: | 2021-10-08 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The wealthy have figured out a way to bypass the United States' travel ban: by quarantining at luxury resorts in the Caribbean and Mexico. The CWGen Z and millennials are bringing back an "old money" aesthetic — think country clubs, dinner parties, polo, and yachts. On Wednesdays she has "CEO days," where she focuses on the big picture — business planning and creating ideas. Courtesy of Neave GroupThere's a luxury pool shortage. We spoke to seven luxury pool designers, who described the unprecedented demand.

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