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Looking to get promoted quickly or avoid being underpaid? Then find companies where managers rise through the ranks, where promotions come with bigger pay bumps, or where employees stick around and build careers. That information has been hard for employees to find. A new ranking of Fortune 500 companies seeks to help job-hunters avoid dead-end jobs. The 2023 American Opportunity Index rates companies by how well they help employees, especially those without college degrees, move into better, high-paying jobs.

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☆ The Fight Over Return-to-Office Is Turning Into a Disability Dispute
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The return-to-office battle between workers and employers is entering a more combative phase. Workers are filing more charges of disability discrimination to federal and state agencies, and an increasing share of the charges are based on mental-health conditions such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Though agencies don’t disclose the events leading to the charges, the increase is driven partly by employers requiring that workers return to workplaces and denying some of their requests for exemptions, according to lawyers, government officials and disability advocates.

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☆ Why America Has a Long-Term Labor Crisis, in Six Charts
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Lauren Weber | Alana Pipe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Theo FrancisTheo Francis covers corporate news and executive compensation for The Wall Street Journal from Washington, D.C. He specializes in using a wide range of data as well as securities filings and other publicly available documents to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Theo joined WSJ's Texas Journal edition in Dallas in 2000 and went on to cover mutual funds, pensions, insurance, hospitals and the healthcare industry for the Journal from New York and Florida. He covered financial regulation and the financial crisis from Washington for BusinessWeek in 2008 and 2009. He has taught journalism at the University of Maryland and is a graduate of the University of Illinois and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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☆ Why America Has a Long-Term Labor Crisis in Six Charts
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Lauren Weber | Alana Pipe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Auto CEOs Make 300 Times What Workers Make. How That Stacks Up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Lauren Weber | Theo Francis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Auto CEOs Make About 300 Times What Their Median Worker Is Paid. Here’s How That Stacks Up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Lauren Weber | Theo Francis | ) 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.

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☆ Perdue and Tyson Under Federal Investigation Over Child Labor
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Companies Are Using Fewer Temp Workers, but That Doesn’t Portend a Downturn
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Legal Assault on Corporate Diversity Efforts Has Begun
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Theo Francis | Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ New York City Starts to Regulate AI Used in Hiring Tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Lauren Weber | ) 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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☆ 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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☆ Companies’ New Cause: Dodging the Culture Wars
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Chip Cutter | Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Noncompete Clauses Violate Labor Law, NLRB Lawyer Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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For years when AT&T Inc. threw a retirement party, employees had to enter the names of attendees in the telecom company’s expense-reporting system. It was the kind of small annoyance that is an accepted part of office life for millions of white-collar workers. But a technology team at AT&T figured the requirement, plus a similar one for service-anniversary parties, was costing its workers 28,500 hours a year that they could be spending on more important tasks. So the company scrapped it, and in the past two years has made more than 160 similar moves it estimates are saving employees nearly 3 million hours a year.

Anheuser-Busch’s partnership with a transgender activist had prompted a movement on social media to boycott Bud Light. Photo: Daniel Acker/BloombergAnheuser-Busch InBev SA said it had placed on leave two executives who oversaw a Bud Light collaboration with a transgender activist. Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Light’s vice president of marketing, had come under fire from some customers and media outlets over the company’s decision to send a personalized Bud Light can to transgender activist and influencer Dylan Mulvaney as part of a promotion for the beer brand’s March Madness contest.

Most jobs will be changed in some form by new AI tools, according to a study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and OpenAI, the company that makes the popular AI tool ChatGPT. But for nearly 20% of jobs, at least half of their tasks could be completed much faster with ChatGPT and similar tools. Here are some of those jobs.

☆ The Jobs Most Exposed to ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Lauren Weber | Lindsay Ellis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Accountants are among the professionals whose careers are most exposed to the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence, according to a new study. The researchers found that at least half of accounting tasks could be completed much faster with the technology. The same was true for mathematicians, interpreters, writers and nearly 20% of the U.S. workforce, according to the study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and OpenAI , the company that makes the popular AI tool ChatGPT.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg on How to Run a Company in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Chip Cutter | Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Women’s Return to the Workforce Piles Momentum on a Hot Economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Sarah Chaney Cambon | Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

American women are staging a return to the workforce that is helping propel the economy in the face of high inflation and rising interest rates. Women have gained more jobs than men for four straight months, including in January’s hiring surge, pushing them to hold more than 49.8% of all nonfarm jobs. Female workers last edged higher than men on U.S. payrolls in late 2019, before the pandemic sent nearly 12 million women out of jobs, compared with 10 million men.

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