Labor

If we could better track the value of human capital, employees would be better off.

Research reveals how activist investors help and hurt.

CEOs, take note.

Protections and benefits shouldn’t be based on employment status alone.

Employees are constantly in motion—making sales calls or taking service trips; visiting an international office for a few days or relocating there for a few years; soaring across oceans in the corporate jet or heading across town in the company car. Typically, these activities are administered by an assortment of departments and vendors. But we […]

Instead of battling the NLRB, McDonald's should extend an approach it's using with suppliers.

It’s a resurgence other countries should understand before copying.

For most of the 20th century, a symbiotic link existed between value creation and job creation. When businesses prospered, employment expanded and communities thrived. This virtuous circle was good for business and good for society. But now the relationship between value creation and job creation is more tenuous. In the United States, for example, the […]

To maintain worldwide competitiveness, the West must adopt strategies achieve a balance between productivity and welfare goals

And it’s one reason inequality has increased.

The share of income going to labor is falling across the world.

Automation will affect almost everyone.

Untangling causality is key to understanding the effects of the crisis.

It can be hard for smaller firms to compete for top talent. But they might not have to.

Performing well as a first-level supervisor is like walking the circus high wire. In both positions, the ability to maintain one’s balance when shifting forces pull in opposite directions is a measure of one’s success. First-level supervisors must be able to harmonize the demands of management, the demands of the collective work force (often represented […]

Hilltop Stores 100 Bloomfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06105 Serving Greater Hartford Since 1926 Date: February 16, 1989 To: Margaret Flynn, CEO Hilltop From: Ed Boyer, VP for store operations Our contract with Local 413 expires June 18, so we need to start preparing for negotiations (they’re scheduled to begin in eight weeks). Now is a […]

Today, most multinationals have a conspicuous social conscience. They publicize their internal codes of conduct, monitor labor conditions in their global supply chains, and require suppliers to meet basic labor practice standards. But despite efforts to be better global citizens, companies by themselves are unable to eliminate abuses in their supply chains. In fact, so […]

An analysis of pay at public universities in Canada shows that they might.

It has to do with job insecurity.

Apathy among customers has made tactics like boycotts and petitions far less effective in the gig economy.