The March jobs report released Friday showed that the early impact of the coronavirus pandemic was much worse than economists expected, signaling further damage to the US economy ahead. The US economy lost 701,000 jobs in March, according to the Labor Depar…
For weeks, workers have been begging to wear masks when showing up for work at retailers like Walmart and Target, as well as at fast-food chains like McDonald’s and Dunkin’. Many companies have resisted providing masks or allowing employees to wear masks on…
Dana is engrossed in the music piping through her Bluetooth headphones on her commute to work — a grocery-store worker, her job is considered essential — when a man sits down behind her on the bus. She doesn’t notice that he’s come within 6 feet, and she doe…
Singapore is about 2,100 miles away from Wuhan, China, the original epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. But the country has seen relatively few cases, just over 1,100, and five deaths. Singapore’s quick-moving, proactive, aggressive public-health response…
“The whole world’s f—ed.” That’s what Raoul Pal, the former hedge-fund manager who founded Real Vision, said on the “Lindzanity” podcast when he initially learned the coronavirus was uncontrolled and spreading rapidly. “The moment the spread hit Iran ……
Keir Starmer has won the Labour leadership contest and will replace Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labour Party. The Shadow Brexit Secretary won the race in the first round of voting with 56% of the vote against Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bai…
Business Insider The global aircraft industry is essentially a duopoly — a decades-long transatlantic rivalry between the US’ Boeing and France’s Airbus which, as trends change or one is hit by hardship, have continually overtaken each other to temporarily r…
Employees at an Amazon warehouse outside Washington, DC, were told Thursday that a person infected with the novel coronavirus was inside the building on March 31, a source told Business Insider. The company has confirmed the incident. “We are supporting the…
A wave of startup layoffs prompted by the coronavirus pandemic appears to have hit almost every sector — travel companies like TripActions, child-care startup Wonderschool and electric scooter startup Bird have all been forced to lay off workers in recent wee…
The Trump administration wants to remind people who have lost their jobs in the coronavirus pandemic that they still have options to replace their employer-provided health insurance. For example, they can still sign up for coverage under the Affordable Care …
Zoom is taking steps to make its app more secure, after facing backlash from users about the privacy and security settings of its product. Starting April 5, Zoom will require passwords if a user tries to enter a meeting using just the meeting ID instead of …
Governments and companies alike are desperately trying to learn what areas the coronavirus may spread to next and how it’s already moving through hard-hit zones. And different countries are taking varying approaches to that. China, for example, has mandated…