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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Workplace sexual harassment typically escalates from seemingly minor incidents, underscoring the need for immediate and direct action from leadership. Company culture around sexual harassment is often rooted in avoiding discomfort, but early intervention and clear communication is crucial for employee safety and reducing legal risks. Speaking up about harassment, supporting victims and setting a firm tone against inappropriate behavior are vital steps for business leaders in fostering a safe working environment. No one wanted to address it because it was uncomfortable, awkward and messy.Early in my legal career, a senior…
No language on earth has ever produced the expression “as enjoyable as filing your taxes.” This annual chore is the pits. It’s slow, frustrating work that requires organization, math skills, and the ability to decipher meaning from the U.S. tax code. People will jump on pretty much any solution that makes filing quicker, easier, and less painful–including giving AI a crack at it.Recent survey research from Qlik found that nearly 11% of taxpayers have used or plan to use a consumer AI system (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini) to help them prepare their 2025 tax returns. But how…
Based on our analysis of the Zillow Home Value Index, U.S. home prices are up just +0.4% year-over-year between January 2025 and January 2026. That marks a deceleration from the +2.1% growth rate a year earlier—though national price growth has recently stabilized, ticking a tad higher from a low of -0.01% in August 2025.In the first half of 2025, the number of major metro area housing markets seeing year-over-year declines climbed. That count has since stopped ticking up. 31 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 10% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the Jan. 2024 to…
Learn about the National Parks Access Pass for people with permanent disabilities, including how chronic conditions like diabetes qualify for a lifetime pass.The Access Pass provides free lifetime access to national park sites around the country (Photo: Sumiko Scott/Getty Images)Published March 28, 2026 06:17AMPeople with permanent disabilities may qualify for a free lifetime pass to U.S. national parks and more than 1,000 federally managed recreation sites. The National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Access Pass waives entrance fees for medically eligible U.S. citizens and residents, providing access to all 433 sites managed by the National Park Service (NPS).Though iterations of the…
‘Nutmeg!’ is the best soccer management sim alternative for people who don’t – or daren’t – have the time for ‘Football Manager’.Secret ModeBeing a fan of lower-league football is tough, cheering on often piss-poor teams in freezing, sideways rain, only to see your team lose 1-0 to an 89th-minute deflection. Being a small-club football manager is worse: my beloved Hartlepool United has been through 17 managers in the last ten years (26, if you also count caretakers), and I was hoping Nutmeg! would let me be the 27th great pretender — I promised as much in my preview last August.Nutmeg!…
It sure is nice to have the web look the way you want—without all the usual awkward font choices and other assorted distractions—isn’t it?Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored a slew of interesting tools for taking total control of whatever you’re reading online: First, right here in these Cool Tools headquarters last week, my compadre and fellow Fast Company contributor Jared Newman showed you a series of simple sites for seeing minimalist, plain-text versions of sports, news, and weather online. Then, in my Android Intelligence newsletter soon after, I surfaced an awesome, out-of-sight feature in that arena for cleaning…
Published March 28, 2026 04:00AMI’m riding a mountain bike deep in the backcountry of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land outside of Moab when I start to feel the unmistakable sensation of my quads cramping. It’s only some dull tightness at first, but I know what’s coming—the sharp pains, the stiffness. Pedaling a mountain bike through cramps is not pleasant, and I have at least seven miles of rough, 4WD road back to the trailhead ahead of me. I don’t panic; I drink some water, eat a bar, and click the assist button on my electric mountain bike. Instead of…
As the government shutdown drags on, having devastating effects on Transportation Security Administration staffing, millions of Americans continue to face long lines at TSA checkpoints at airports nationwide. With the busy Easter holiday travel weekend around the corner, wait times are expected to worsen as the number of travelers increases. If you have a flight scheduled in the days ahead, here are some travel gadgets that can help make your TSA wait times more bearable.[Photo: faraktinov/Adobe Stock]Battery packs for long TSA linesThanks to modern smartphone batteries, which can last a day or more, you ordinarily don’t have to worry about…
Wednesday, April 1, marks 50 years since Apple was founded. Over the next week, you’ll no doubt see countless articles examining the company’s influence, with many likely focusing on which single Apple product had the most consequential impact on the tech industry and society as a whole. To be sure, there are myriad options to choose from, most notably, the original Macintosh, the iMac, the iPod, and the iPhone.Yet to me, Apple’s most important contribution over the past fifty years isn’t a physical product. Rather, it’s a policy—one asserting that privacy is a fundamental human right, and, to protect that…
Companies often assume that when mid-career women step back from leadership tracks, their ambition has faded. Our research suggests something else is happening.The real pressure point is caregiving strain. Caregiver strain is the cognitive, emotional, and logistical burden of coordinating care for children, parents, or other dependents—and our research found it was the most powerful predictor of workforce exit.Unlike other pressures, caregiving strain does not shut off when the workday begins: kids get sick, elderly relatives have bad falls around the clock. Yet most workplaces continue to treat it as a private matter that “doesn’t clock in” alongside paid work…