Wayfair’s CEO Wants Staff to Work Harder. Your Boss Probably Agrees.

[ad_1] If you want to know what the boss really wants from you in 2024, Wayfair Chief Executive Niraj Shah’s staff memo might be a good place to start. Shah…

Minimum Wages Are Going Up. Low-Paid Workers Probably Won’t Notice.

[ad_1] Low-paid workers might not notice that 22 states are increasing the minimum wage to start the year. The reason: Robust raises in recent years have rendered pay floors largely…

Delta Throttles Back on Pilot Hiring

[ad_1] Delta Air Lines plans to hire roughly half as many pilots next year as it did in 2023, the latest sign that a more than two-year-long pilot hiring spree…

Opinion | The Employee Retention Tax Credit Is the Biggest Covid Scam

[ad_1] It’s hard to feel sorry for the Internal Revenue Service, but cleaning up for Congress is never fun. The Covid employee retention tax credit is turning into a classic…

Tech companies like Google and Meta made cuts to DEI programs in 2023 after big promises in prior years

[ad_1] AnitaB.org CEO Brenda Wilkerson speaks on a panel with Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland at the 2019 Grace Hopper conference. Shortly after the murder of George Floyd at the hands…

Tesla to raise pay for hourly Nevada Gigafactory workers in January — move could stave off union interest

[ad_1] Security gate outside the Tesla Motors Gigafactory site east of Reno, Nevada. David Calvert | The Washington Post | Getty Images Tesla has informed workers at its battery factory…

Small-business owners battle to provide health benefits to their workers 

[ad_1] Last March, small-business owner Kelly Moore testified before the House Ways and Means Committee about what she considers the worst day of her life, when she had to announce…

Activision Blizzard to Pay More Than $50 Million to Settle Lawsuit That Spurred Microsoft’s Takeover

[ad_1] Updated Dec. 16, 2023 4:52 pm ET Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay more than $50 million to settle a high-profile lawsuit by a California regulator that helped spur…

Elon Musk as ‘Technoking?’ In 2023, It Was More Like ‘DramaKing’

[ad_1] Journal Reports: Year in Review Weight-Loss Drugs Like Ozempic Help With Losing Weight—and Potentially Much More By Angela Fitch December 15, 2023 at 5:00 PM ET Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro…

Big Four Accounting Firms Overhired. Now They’re Starting to Lay Off Partners.

[ad_1] An Ernst & Young senior partner, during a call with some of the accounting firm’s U.S. partners and staff, delivered a sober message usually reserved for clients: It’s time…