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☆ A Turbulent Year May Lie Ahead—CEOs at Davos Are Optimistic
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Chip Cutter | Emily Glazer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ramon Laguarta, chief executive at PepsiCo, said in an interview at Davos that while inflation in agriculture is still a challenge, his company is more agile and skilled at optimization after responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. DAVOS, Switzerland—CEOs and business leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum are feeling increasingly confident about the U.S. economy and the strength of consumer demand, despite protracted conflicts around the world, a looming U.S. election and worries about new trade disruptions. The dueling sentiments on display this week reflect hopes of a so-called soft landing in the U.S., as inflation cools and the labor market remains strong. Many leaders also expect the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates this year, potentially opening up more dealmaking and spending.

Persons: Ramon Laguarta Organizations: PepsiCo, Federal Reserve Locations: Davos, DAVOS, Switzerland, U.S

☆ Crash Parties, Escape Dull Chitchat and Make Powerful Friends: What Davos Elites Know
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Chip Cutter | Emily Glazer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

For a master class in power networking, it’s tough to beat the one taking place in the Swiss Alps this week. The annual World Economic Forum brings the planet’s power brokers together for morning-to-past-midnight meetings over coffee, cocktails and fondue. For the thousands of CEOs, billionaires, intellectuals and world leaders descending on Davos, the setting is unrivaled in its potential to spark relationships, dealmaking and big ideas for the year ahead. After all, there are few other places where you can run into Al Gore at the hotel bar and wait next to Bill Gates to pass through the metal detectors.

Persons: Al Gore, Bill Gates Locations: Swiss, Davos

☆ Spotify’s Layoff Memo and the Art of Delivering Bad News
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of Spotify, at an event in New York in October. It has become a staple of the modern corporate downsizing: the public CEO layoff letter. Before a company cuts workers, many executives send an all-staff email explaining what went wrong. Then the company typically shares it online. Such missives, sent this year at companies including Meta, Salesforce and Amazon, often follow a familiar structure, providing some rationale for the job cuts while saying an often-awkward goodbye to departing staffers.

Persons: Daniel Ek Organizations: Spotify, Meta Locations: New York

☆ Amazon Launches Free AI Classes in Bid to Win Talent Arms Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Sebastian Herrera | Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Amazon’s effort reflects a growing awareness among companies that AI could change how millions of people do their jobs. Photo: Mark Lennihan/Associated PressAmazon.com is launching a program to train millions of workers in artificial-intelligence skills as the tech giant seeks to gain an edge in a pitched battle for talent with Microsoft , Google and other companies. Named “AI Ready,” Amazon’s new program aims to train at least two million people by 2025 on basic to advanced AI skills, including how to make use of the generative AI technology that has powered language-based models like ChatGPT. Amazon aims to fill a gap in AI talent as it has sought to generate interest in its generative AI efforts after falling behind rivals. In launching its program, Amazon is adding to a broader effort by the corporate world to get workers in various fields trained in AI.

Persons: Mark Lennihan Organizations: Associated Press Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google

☆ The New Headache for Bosses: Employees Aren’t Quitting
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The white-collar labor market is softening to a point that companies are encountering an issue that would have been unthinkable in the era known as the Great Resignation. These days, too few people are voluntarily leaving their jobs.

The reverberations of the Israel-Hamas conflict are playing out loudly everywhere in life—except at work. The muted discussion is a sharp turn from the forceful statements and candid conversations that companies organized after #MeToo, George Floyd’s murder and anti-Asian attacks of recent years. This time, employees on many sides of the issue are criticizing their companies’ responses as tepid or tardy, and saying they feel as though leaders want to avoid the subject.

Persons: George Floyd’s Locations: Israel

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☆ Bosses Aren’t Just Tracking When You Show Up to the Office but How Long You Stay
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Chip Cutter | Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Lauren WeberLauren Weber writes about workplace issues and employment in The Wall Street Journal's corporate bureau in New York. Her stories often explore topics such as workforce development and skills, contingent work, compensation, the bonds between employers and workers, and the intersection between economic trends and the on-the-ground practices of employers. A former Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University, Lauren has won awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and the Newswomen's Club of New York, and she was part of a team that won a Gerald Loeb award in 2019 for reporting on Amazon's search for a second headquarters. Lauren has also been a staff reporter at Reuters and Newsday, and she is the author of the 2009 book "In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue," a cultural history of frugality and cheapness in the United States. Lauren can be reached at lauren.weber@wsj.com; you can also find her on Twitter at @laurenweberWSJ.

Persons: Lauren Weber Lauren Weber, Lauren, Gerald Loeb Organizations: Columbia University, Society for, Newswomen's, of New, Reuters, Newsday, Twitter Locations: New York, of New York, American, United States, lauren.weber@wsj.com

☆ Attention Office Resisters: The Boss Is Counting Badge Swipes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Chip Cutter | Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ How J.M. Smucker Cracked the Return-to-Office Code
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Chip Cutter | Photographs Ross Mantle For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Mark Smucker, the CEO, said he isn't expecting any major changes soon to the company's plan. “Whether it’s this model, or some other model, I find it very hard to imagine a world where we go back to being in the office even four days a week, let alone five. ... There’ll be some form of this forever.”

Persons: Mark Smucker, There’ll, ”

☆ Resilient U.S. Economy Defies Expectations
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Nick Timiraos | Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ This Company Created a Return-to-Office Plan That Employees Actually Like
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Chip Cutter | Photographs Ross Mantle For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Chip Cutter — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chip CutterChip Cutter is a reporter covering workplace, management and leadership issues in The Wall Street Journal's corporate bureau in New York. His features also explore a range of corporate governance, C-suite issues and broader workplace trends. Chip joined the Journal from LinkedIn, where he was a managing editor, helping oversee the original news and commentary on the site. While at LinkedIn, Chip won a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (Sabew) award for his coverage of national labor issues. Chip began his career as a business reporter at the Associated Press.

Persons: Chip Organizations: LinkedIn, Society, Associated Press Locations: New York

☆ The $900,000 AI Job Is Here
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Zoom, Other Remote-Work Champions Call Employees Back to the Office
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ ‘Barbie’ Surpasses $1 Billion at the Box Office
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Noom Picks New CEO as It Moves Into Market for Ozempic
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Big Question for Managers on AI: Who Gets the Job of Figuring It Out?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Businesses Have a Big Idea to Tackle AI: More Task Forces
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Companies Expect New Challenges to Diversity Policies After Court Ruling
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Lauren Weber | Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Diners Are Losing Patience With Restaurant Service—and There’s No Quick Fix
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Heather Haddon | Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Companies Brace for Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Lauren Weber | Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Companies Brace for Supreme Court Ruling That Could Prompt Scrutiny of Diversity Initiatives
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Lauren Weber | Chip Cutter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Companies That Embraced Social Issues Have Second Thoughts
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Chip Cutter | Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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