Workers & Wages

During a time of political division, the public is aligned that workers and wages should continue to be companies’ top priority. Additionally, addressing consumer issues is increasingly important to all Americans.

Americans want paid leave, and this election we saw paid leave measures advance in Nebraska, Missouri, and Alaska. This report makes the business case for expanding paid leave policies, featuring leading examples from HPE, Etsy, Intel, AMD, and more.

Each year, we ask the American public to identify and prioritize what issues matter most when it comes to just business behavior. This year, we began by asking participants a simple question: What do you think the chief responsibility of America’s largest companies is?

A new study from our friends at the Brookings Institute finds that more than 30% of all workers could see at least half of their occupation’s tasks disrupted by generative AI, and that the disruptions will be felt across “cognitive” and “nonroutine” tasks, especially in middle- to higher-paid professions. What can businesses do to prepare?

The new Employment Rights Bill in the UK places employee benefits firmly on the agenda in that country and, if passed into law, will presumably affect many of the companies we cover that do business there.

These companies lead in our 2024 Rankings on the core worker issues that matter most to the American public.

To understand the financial security of employees across America’s largest publicly traded companies, JUST Capital and Revelio Labs analyzed the amount employees’ wages exceed the local living wage necessary to cover basic budgetary needs. Here’s what we found.

Hardened by a cycle of embrace and backlash that continues to evolve, the stakeholder approach – in which the overarching goal is doing right by workers, communities, customers, suppliers, the planet and, yes, shareholders too – offers a clear blueprint for action which benefits everyone. 

In collaboration with Dayforce, this paid leave policy benchmarking toolkit connects corporate performance with evidence-based leading practice to help companies smartly invest in worker well-being.

on Post Op-Ed this week, JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon laid bare the challenges facing the country but also offered a persuasive leadership vision for meeting them. If the way Dimon has built JPMC is anything to go by, it could be a powerful template for a more just society.

As businesses continue to navigate the challenges of attracting and retaining top talent, offering quality jobs is one way for companies to maintain a competitive edge in the labor market. JPMorgan Chase is a leader in this category – here’s why.

Recent research from Sift, the AI-based fraud prevention platform, has revealed what it calls a “surprising generational divide”. It seems that Gen Zers – those born between 1997 and 2012 – express a significantly higher willingness to engage in online payment fraud compared to other generations Why?

One thing we know from our polling is that Republicans and Democrats agree that companies paying workers fairly and offering a living wage – meaning, enough to afford basic necessities at the local level – is essential to just business performance. 

Americans’ chief priorities remain firmly centered on pay, jobs, and economic security. The debates and discussions around corporations’ role in society continue, but have become markedly less heated and divisive, and more private, measured and–dare I say–meaningful

Nine years of polling has shown that paid leave policies are a key way for companies to differentiate themselves as a JUST employer. Here are some of the most unique paid leave policies companies are implementing, and the results for their employees and their business.

Why did Levi Strauss & Co. expand their paid family leave plan, and how did they make it happen? We speak with CHRO Tracy Layney to get the details.

We sat down with the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of WorldQuant to discuss the benefits and dangers of predictive AI for America’s business leaders and workers.

Providing a framework for how corporate leaders can improve both transparency and performance on the worker issues that matter most to Americans.

Many companies are also doing more to explicitly accelerate progress for women within their workplaces – here are the leaders.

What employers in the Russell 1000 lead the pack with their parental leave policies in 2024? Here are the five that came to the forefront. 

Fortune published their 2024 100 Best Places to Work list recently. It’s highly regarded by major employers and obviously reflects a theme we know to be a top priority for the public, so we thought it’d be fun to compare and contrast against our own JUST Jobs Scorecard, which we released last week. 

Investing in human capital is one of the essential elements of business leadership today. But without a comprehensive set of metrics and a clear definition of what good actually looks like, it’s very difficult to know where to invest in order to improve.

Disclosures on the rise, but room for improvement for all of America’s largest companies.

Without a standard set of foundational job quality metrics or a clear definition of what good looks like, it’s not always apparent how company leaders can demonstrate their employee value proposition or evaluate where they should invest to improve performance. This is why we’ve created the JUST Jobs Scorecard.

Leadership on good jobs isn’t confined to one industry. In fact, there are eight different industries represented among the ten top-performing companies overall.