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More leaders are weighing climate investments differently on the company ledger. As it turns out, executives are fine with lower returns if they’re good for the Earth, according to a new survey of nearly 5,000 global CEOs.
One executive took a new approach to communication—by giving out his cell number to 60,000 employees. Tasked with turning Adidas around, CEO Bj?rn Gulden thought dropping his digits would “wake up the people who didn’t understand we were losing.” It certainly woke something up: Employees started calling and texting up to 200 times a week.
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Tech sector layoffs show no signs of slowing. 2024 began with thousands of layoffs in the sector. Industry giants like Meta, Microsoft, and Google are no longer the gold-star employers they once were,.
Job postings at OpenAI hint at what the company wants to accomplish next. Writing community specialist? Creator community specialist? Seems like ChatGPT’s builders want to make friends with the creatives whose work they’ve been feeding to the machines.
Walmart is giving store managers an $11,000 reason to cheer in the new year. The big box retailer is raising annual salaries from $117,000 to $128,000 a year starting Feb. 1.
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