Jena McGregor
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The new corporate swag: Branded masks, sanitizer spray bottles and Zoom vanity light rings
Washington Post - Business: For businesses such as Lemonade, whose executives appeared in branded masks for their IPO, it’s a chance to demonstrate their socially...
WeWork proposes post-coronavirus changes to shared-office layouts
Washington Post - Business: The plan calls for “buffer seating,” sanitizer stations in common rooms and one-way hallway traffic patterns to avoid “bottlenecks” This post...
The companies that are pledging not to lay off workers amid the coronavirus unemployment crisis
Washington Post - Business: A record 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. But some companies pledged to hold off on job cuts,...
Employers are adding high-tech solutions to solve a low-tech problem: Getting more sleep
Washington Post - Business: Some employers are shifting from simply talking about better sleep — or giving employees tools to track it — to helping...
Oscar-winning ‘Hair Love’ director calls attention to efforts to ban race-based hair discrimination
Washington Post - Business: The CROWN Act, banning race-based discrimination hair discrimination, is being considered or has become law in at least 25 states. This...
Goldman Sachs CEO says it won’t take a company public without diversity on its board
Washington Post - Business: The new policy starts this summer, and will increase to two directors in 2021. This post first appeared in Washington Post...
Delta workers to receive profit-sharing payouts worth 2 months’ pay
Washington Post - Business: Employees are set to receive $1.6 billion in cash payouts, Delta’s largest employee profit-sharing pool on record and one that handily...
The shock of unemployment may push men into jobs traditionally held by women, study shows
Washington Post - Business: One particular factor — the loss of a job — pushed some men into taking jobs in female-dominated industries, such as...
New Jersey could soon become the nation’s first state to mandate severance for employees in mass layoffs
Washington Post - Business: New Jersey’s “Toys R Us bill,” which passed Monday, requires larger employers to give one week of pay per year of...
New Boeing CEO’s epic to-do list: Restart 737 Max production. Repair FAA links. And fix a culture where supervisors were called ‘monkeys.’
Washington Post - Business: The trove of internal Boeing documents — that included discussions of manipulating regulators — add to the challenges stacking up for...