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With the price of everything from gas to food remaining stubbornly high – February’s Consumer Price Index numbers released earlier this week showed inflation actually speeding up slightly – workers struggling to make ends meet seem set for further economic pain. 

6.1 million full-time American workers are not making enough to support a family with another full-time working adult and two children, our latest report with Revelio Labs shows.

The business case for investing in workers is surely watertight at this point. Let’s discuss some of the companies showing why:

Avangrid CFO Justin Lagasse speaks about how the initiative aligns with the energy company’s longterm goals of in a continuing to support employee financial health.

“We want to be a company that attracts top talent to build long-term careers,” said Pedro Azagra, Avangrid CEO.

With the pushback on ESG and ‘woke’ companies now maturing, there is room in America today for a more objective, data-driven framework that supports values-led business leadership.

From January 2018 to December 2023, leading companies have outperformed their lower-ranked peers by 66.6%, with the Workers stakeholder delivering the strongest performance among the five we track in Q4.

With the rapid growth and deployment of generative AI, the consumer component of our stakeholder model – particularly in areas like data privacy, product benefit and harm, and customer treatment – is only going to grow in importance in the future. Here’s why.

Can corporate justness can align with local and state social, economic, environmental and political goals? 

“One of the sayings we have at the company is ‘you have to win the right way.'”

JUST 100 Leader Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri joined JUST Capital co-founder Paul Tudor Jones, alongside other executives, to discuss corporate leadership on just business behavior.

Discover which companies are leading on the issues that matter most to Americans today. In 2024, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) leads the JUST 100 for the first time.

“Our job is to create value and my measure of value is not just shareholder value. Ultimately, stock price is a reflection of how you do things and what you deliver. One of the sayings we have at the company is ‘you have to win the right way.’”

Beginning with last year’s 2023 Rankings, we reached out to the same qualifying companies to more accurately capture the experience for gig workers and to ensure that these companies’ scores are more reflective of their entire workforce.

Each year, we factor into our Rankings a variety of events deemed materially detrimental to a company’s just business behavior. This year, ten companies received a unique event treatment.

“Investing in your people, to me, is a really critical component to being a successful company,” HPE’s vice president of benefits, culture, and people experience told JUST Capital.

As part of its 2024 Rankings, JUST Capital is proud to present its list of Industry leaders, or companies that receive the highest overall rank within each of our 36 industries. 

With confidence in the economy still feeling elusive for many people and layoffs dominating the headlines – particularly in the tech and banking sectors – it was a nice surprise to see prominent workforce investments by multiple large employers this week. 

“Rebuilding Trust” is the official theme of this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Trust in what?

“If the business community isn’t out there telling the real story — the American story — of opportunity and progress in this country, then no one should be surprised when people believe it’s as bad as the headlines and the political ads say it is.”

On January 1st we launched a major media campaign with Empower Media to elevate JUST’s brand and celebrate the leadership of top-performing companies.

Bank of America CHRO Sheri Bronstein explains what’s behind the company’s leading performance for Workers in our 2023 Rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies.

Capitalism, it seems to me, is undergoing a transformation, not unlike Charles Dickens’s famed Christmas creation, Ebenezer Scrooge. The question is whether its future will be different from its present and its past.

How does the world address climate change while safeguarding economies, acknowledging disparities, protecting worker well-being and jobs, meeting consumer needs, and supporting communities?

With over a decade of experience bringing leading brands, nonprofits, foundations, and social enterprises together to improve corporate performance on stakeholder issues, Tolu Lawrence steps into the Chief Impact Officer role at JUST Capital.