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July 5, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: A Mid-Year Check on The Corporate Stakeholder Landscape

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

July 2, 2024  |  JUST Capital

High Cost-of-Living Areas and Entry Level Jobs Can Provide Financial Security: Key Insights From our Wage Analysis

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.

June 19, 2024  |  JUST Capital

From Bereavement Leave to Sabbaticals, Emerging Worker Well-Being Trends from Leading Companies

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.

June 13, 2024  |  JUST Capital

Levi Strauss’s CHRO Details Why the Company Expanded Family Leave

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.

May 23, 2024  |  JUST Capital

How Will Predictive AI Reshape Business? Our Conversation with Igor Tulchinsky

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.

May 20, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The Corporate Guide to Human Capital Disclosure & Leading Practice

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

May 10, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Which Companies Do Best For Working Mothers?

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

May 9, 2024  |  JUST Capital

JUST Capital’s Top 5 Companies for Parents in 2024

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. 

April 12, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Are Fortune’s 100 Best Places To Work Also JUST Employers?

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. 

April 5, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: A New Scorecard for Investing in the American Worker

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.

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April 5, 2024  |  JUST Capital

JUST Capital Launches 2024 ‘JUST Jobs Scorecard’ Assessing Corporate Performance on Quality Jobs

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

April 3, 2024  |  JUST Capital

JUST Jobs Scorecard: Human Capital Disclosure Rising, But Still Plenty of Room for Improvement

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.

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April 3, 2024  |  JUST Capital

What Corporate Leaders Should Know About Our New 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.

March 29, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Investing In American Workers At Every Stage Of Life

Helping workers prepare for their financial futures is a major JUST issue. And it’s not only a problem for older working Americans. Indeed many Gen X and Millennial adults in the workforce today worry about the costs associated with both caring for their parents as well as their children. 

March 15, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: America’s Workers May Be In Greater Financial Pain Than You Think

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. 

March 12, 2024  |  JUST Capital

More Than 36% of Russell 1000 Workers Don’t Make a Family-Sustaining Living Wage

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.

March 8, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: What Do Hasbro, Trane, Disney, RTX, and Peloton Have In Common?

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

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March 6, 2024  |  JUST Capital

Avangrid’s Leadership Reflects on Joining the Worker Financial Wellness Initiative in a Continued Effort to Support Employees

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.

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March 6, 2024  |  JUST Capital

Avangrid Joins JUST Capital and PayPal’s Worker Financial Wellness Initiative

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

March 1, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: What Our Latest Financial Analysis Reveals

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.

February 8, 2024  |  JUST Capital

Top Takeaways From JUST Capital’s 2024 Leadership Summit on Better Business Outcomes

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.

February 4, 2024  |  JUST Capital

JUST Capital and CNBC Release the 2024 Rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies and Marquee JUST 100 List

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.

February 4, 2024  |  JUST Capital

HPE CEO Antonio Neri on Leading America’s Most Just Company for 2024

“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.’”

February 4, 2024  |  JUST Capital

How We Updated the 2024 Ranking Methodology to Better Reflect Gig Workers’ Access to Key Benefits and Policies

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.

January 26, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Major Employers Continue to Invest in Worker Financial Health

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. 

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