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September 16, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The Top 10 Companies That Treat Employees Best

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

September 5, 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.

August 23, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Five Years On, BRT’s Restatement Matters More Than Ever

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. 

August 19, 2024  |  JUST Capital

A Guide for Corporate Leaders on Paid Leave Policies

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.

August 9, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Should America Be Run Like JPMorgan?

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.

August 8, 2024  |  JUST Capital

JPMorgan Chase Leads in Investment In Workers, Demonstrating The Value of Prioritizing Key Stakeholders

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.

August 2, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Will Gen Z Become The Engine of a Just Economy?

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?

July 26, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Living Wage Analysis Spotlights A Key Election Issue

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. 

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

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.

workers on a wind turbine

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.

female exec speaks to group of other execs

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:

two workers look at solar panels

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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