'We must adapt': L.L. Bean announces layoffs, reduced call center hours, citing online shopping Sulham said most of L.L. Bean’s call center employees work remotely outside the company's headquarters in Maine. Though Sulham declined to say whether the outerwear retail store plans to close ... 04/16/2024 - 12:00 pm | View Link
L.L.Bean to lay off customer service workers, reduce call line hours Nearly 90% of orders are now placed on L.L.Bean’s website and over 90% of customer calls come in between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. “Impacting people’s jobs and schedules is never a decision L.L.Bean ... 04/12/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Linda Bean, an L.L. Bean Heir and a Conservative Donor, Dies at 82 A company Ms. Bean created in 2007, Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine, began with the purchase of a commercial wharf that supplied bait to lobster boats and bought their catch in the picturesque ... 03/27/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Link
Linda Bean, L.L. Bean Heiress and Big-Time Trump Donor, Dies at 82 Bean’s far-right bona fides and her love of Maine shone through in her fiery response to the effort. She called the backlash “un-American” and said the groups were “a small kernel of ... 03/25/2024 - 7:00 am | View Link
Linda Bean, L.L. Bean heir who backed Trump, dies at 82 “Our hearts go out to her family and friends.” The Hill reached out to L.L. Bean and Linda Bean’s Maine Lobster Inc. for further comment. The granddaughter of L.L. Bean founder Leon Leonwood ... 03/25/2024 - 4:12 am | View Link
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."