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Walmart rolls back DEI programs after right-wing backlash
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Walmart rolls back DEI programs after right-wing backlash

CNN  

New York CNN — Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, will curb some diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. “We’ve been on a journey and know we aren’t perfect, but every decision comes from a place of wanting to foster a sense of belonging.” Activist Robby Starbuck, who has led a pressure campaign against businesses for diversity programs, …

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Business bankruptcies to continue to rise for the time being, association says
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Business bankruptcies to continue to rise for the time being, association says

NL Times  

Erik Ziengs, the chairman of Ondernemend Nederland, which is an independent association for businesses in the Netherlands, is expecting more bankruptcies of trade companies and catering businesses to follow the current wave. Ziengs thinks that many companies are struggling to survive financially due to debts incurred during the coronavirus pandemic. Retail specialist Paul Moers also fears more retail groups getting …

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DEI, explained: What’s the term Republicans are using to attack Kamala Harris?
5 months ago

DEI, explained: What’s the term Republicans are using to attack Kamala Harris?

CNN  

CNN — The ongoing controversy surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion has spilled over into the 2024 presidential race with Vice President Kamala Harris on the path to becoming the Democratic nominee. And 56% of U.S. adults say “focusing on increasing diversity, equity and inclusion at work is mainly a good thing.” Kelly Baker, executive vice president and chief human resources …

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DEI is a lightning rod for controversy – but the practice isn't dead
9 months, 2 weeks ago

DEI is a lightning rod for controversy – but the practice isn't dead

BBC  

DEI is a lightning rod for controversy – but the practice isn't dead Getty Images Since 2020, leaders have looked at DEI in their industries. In response to public pressure for corporate social accountability in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, many firms including Google, Nike and Wells Fargo began appointing chief diversity officers to oversee their newly …

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The office holiday party booze is being replaced with guacamole and pickleball
1 year ago

The office holiday party booze is being replaced with guacamole and pickleball

LA Times  

Many companies are moving away from the Champagne, sequins and “Secret Santa” gift exchanges of office Christmas parties crystallized in public consciousness through TV shows like “The Office.” Instead, business leaders are opting for year-end celebrations cut totally free from seasonal connotations. Angela Robinson, a marketing coordinator at corporate events company Teambuilding.com, which works with big names including NASA and …

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US employers pulled back on hiring in October, adding 150,000 jobs in face of higher borrowing rates
1 year, 1 month ago

US employers pulled back on hiring in October, adding 150,000 jobs in face of higher borrowing rates

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The nation’s employers slowed their hiring in October, adding a modest but still decent 150,000 jobs, a sign that the labor market may be cooling but remains resilient despite high interest rates that have made borrowing much costlier for companies and consumers. Last month’s job growth, though down sharply from a robust 297,000 gain in September, was solid …

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疫情改变企业招人标准 不再寻找“完美”员工
1 year, 6 months ago

疫情改变企业招人标准 不再寻找“完美”员工

China Daily  

前一阵的热播剧《平凡之路》让我们看到了没有高学历但却拥有高情商的“潘岩”们在职场上的价值。过去，硬技能是好工作的敲门砖，但是三年的疫情让企业的用人标准悄然改变，更加重视团队协作能力、沟通能力、同理心和适应力等软技能。 Photo/Pexels As the pandemic has changed many aspects of how we work and the workplace skills we value, it’s also evolved how companies are hiring new employees. In the past, a ‘perfect’ candidate may have attended a notable school, worked for high-profile companies and had proof of relevant hard skills – tangible technical abilities, suited specifically for a role. …

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Will recession put an end to work from home in 2023?
1 year, 11 months ago

Will recession put an end to work from home in 2023?

Firstpost  

A shortage of labour gave employees more say in the last two years, but this could change in 2023 as a recession looms large. While remote work has become the norm with many companies making it or at least hybrid work part of the policy, top executives the world over remain divided over it. Stephen Fear, the founder of the …

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Inside the war to define what work looks like
2 years, 2 months ago

Inside the war to define what work looks like

Live Mint  

Employees at General Motors Co. balked at a request to return to the office. “Leaders always think, you guys should be moving faster and doing more and employees always think, you should be giving me a medal for what I’m doing now," said executive coach Alisa Cohn. “Leaders are worried whether or not people are being productive even as people …

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Ghost-town San Francisco: Tech entrepreneur shares snaps of woke city's deserted downtown midweek
2 years, 2 months ago

Ghost-town San Francisco: Tech entrepreneur shares snaps of woke city's deserted downtown midweek

Daily Mail  

A San Francisco tech entrepreneur has shared startling scenes of the deserted downtown of her city, with the previously bustling streets void of people and eerily quiet. Tech entrepreneur Michelle Tandler spent the week photographing desolate San Francisco during weekday mornings, in areas that would have been bustling with workers pre-COVID Tandler noted that the normally bustling downtown was eerily …

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Brands review data privacy policies after $1.2 million Sephora settlement
2 years, 2 months ago

Brands review data privacy policies after $1.2 million Sephora settlement

Live Mint  

More marketers are taking notice of California’s data privacy laws after the state said last month that cosmetics retailer Sephora had agreed to pay $1.2 million in penalties for alleged violations related to its targeted advertising practices. Many companies didn’t realize that the sharing of data could violate CCPA, even when they used tools like Google’s Marketing Platform that let …

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The six big things we've learned about hybrid work so far
2 years, 5 months ago

The six big things we've learned about hybrid work so far

BBC  

The six big things we've learned about hybrid work so far Getty Images Hybrid work is a big, ongoing experiment. Experts, businesses and workers alike have spent the past two years touting hybrid work as ‘the future’. Hybrid work uptake is very different within companies Even as companies make plans for when workers are coming back, there’s really no one-size-fits …

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Here’s who loves Biden’s vaccine mandate: The companies that have to enforce it
3 years, 3 months ago

Here’s who loves Biden’s vaccine mandate: The companies that have to enforce it

CNN  

New York CNN Business — President Joe Biden gave a gift to every major company in America by forcing them to mandate vaccines or stringently test their employees for Covid. “One of the most difficult problems for companies to tackle during this pandemic, among many, was the ever-changing and sometimes conflicting directives from local, state, and federal agencies.” Praise from …

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Hybrid work: What the office could look like now
3 years, 5 months ago

Hybrid work: What the office could look like now

BBC  

Hybrid work: What the office could look like now Getty As companies shift to hybrid, the purpose of the office has changed. “We’re really trying to see the office in a different way,” says James O'Flaherty, Adtrak’s business operations director. Gone are the days of rigid social and physical structures that many companies believed were essential to a productive work …

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Less than 1 in 4 workers has gone back to the office as businesses plot a wider reopening
3 years, 8 months ago

Less than 1 in 4 workers has gone back to the office as businesses plot a wider reopening

LA Times  

Saul Mendoza walks with disinfectant while cleaning a common area at Hudson Pacific Properties, a big office landlord in Los Angeles. Still, employers and landlords are betting that workers will want to return as vaccinations increase and virus fears recede, even though demand to rent space in Los Angeles office buildings continues to shrink. But when the governor announced no …

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How a Biden administration could push companies further on climate
4 years, 1 month ago

How a Biden administration could push companies further on climate

Salon  

Over the past year or so, as the Trump administration continued to roll back or weaken as many climate regulations in the United States as it could get its hands on, the corporate world seemed to be doing the opposite. "Companies and investors really struggle with uncertainty," said Tom Murray, who advises companies on reducing emissions for the Environmental Defense …

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Why are there still so few black CEOs?
4 years, 2 months ago

Why are there still so few black CEOs?

Live Mint  

If corporate life is a pyramid, for Black Americans, it is one with the steepest of peaks. “Opportunity is not equally distributed,” says Ron Williams, the Black former CEO of Aetna who has served on 14 boards over his career and currently sits on the boards of Boeing Co. and American Express Co. Too many promotions in companies are informally …

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How corporate diversity initiatives trap workers of colour
4 years, 3 months ago

How corporate diversity initiatives trap workers of colour

BBC  

How corporate diversity initiatives trap workers of colour Alamy As companies around the world rush to implement diversity and inclusion programmes, the burden to launch these initiatives are unduly falling on employees of colour. Daniels says she has heard numerous stories of workers of colour being asked to write anti-racism statements; draft updated diversity, equity and inclusion strategies; sit in …

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