Jena McGregor
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The best career advice from this year's graduation speechesMay 27, 2018 1:10 am - This year's headline-grabbing commencement speeches have been high on thinly veiled critiques of the Trump administration and big on dire warnings about the state of Ame...
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Analysis: Why open plan offices are like a nudist beachMay 20, 2018 1:07 am - In the #MeToo era, an open-office environment might seem like the perfect solution for fixing the sexual harassment that can take place behind closed office doors. If th...
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How corporate America is trying to foster more real talk about raceMay 20, 2018 1:00 am - Accenture North America CEO Julie Sweet remembers the day, in July 2016, when she realized a message to her employees wasn't going to be enough. It was after the shootin...
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Study: Women make up just 11% of the highest paid jobs in corporate AmericaMay 06, 2018 1:00 am - The number of female chief executives among America's largest corporations has long been stubbornly, unsurprisingly low. This year, just 5 percent of CEOs in the S &P 15...
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Corporate boards are still mostly white, mostly male - and getting even olderApr 29, 2018 1:00 am - Corporate America's boardrooms have long been criticized for being too old, too white and too male. But while the race and gender makeup of corporate boards have come un...
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Looking for a bigger salary? These are the companies with the highest median payApr 29, 2018 1:00 am - Most of the attention that's been paid to new rules requiring companies to publish a comparison between CEO and worker pay has focused on one number: The pay ratio. Head...
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Should workers the legal right to ignore after-hours email?Apr 08, 2018 1:00 am - On the first day of 2017, a new law went into effect in France giving workers the legal right to avoid responding to work email or text messages on days off or at all ho...
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South Korea is capping its workweek at 52 hours; should the U.S. do the same?Mar 11, 2018 12:00 am - South Korea's parliament is putting a lid on what an official there has called its "inhumanely long" work hours, passing a bill that would cut the maximum workweek from ...
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A lesson from GE: The power of telling hard truths - and the peril of avoiding themFeb 25, 2018 12:00 am - In recent months, as General Electric's troubles turned precipitous - with disclosure of a massive shortfall in insurance reserves, news of a Securities and Exchange Com...
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The 50 best jobs in America, according to GlassdoorJan 28, 2018 12:00 am - America's corporations have been hiring armies of data scientists and data engineers as they collect exponentially larger amounts of data about their customers, their bu...