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«Ӱҵ Capital Launches 2024 ‘«Ӱҵ Jobs Scorecard’ Assessing Corporate Performance on Quality Jobs

NEW YORK – Today, «Ӱҵ Capital released the second edition of the «Ӱҵ Jobs Scorecard, a data-driven interactive tool for companies to measure performance and gauge transparency on key job quality practices and worker policies.

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The new tool, funded by the , provides a unique view into how companies are approaching one of their most critical stakeholders – their workers –  and helps demonstrate how investing in their people can benefit both companies and workers alike. Overall, the Scorecard suggests that actual performance, as well as disclosure and transparency, are all on the rise, and that there is much room for future improvement.

Top performing companies include JPMorgan Chase & Co, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dayforce, Starbucks, Union Pacific, and American Electric Power Company.  To use the interactive tool and dive into these leading companies’ scorecards, visit /the-just-jobs-scorecard/.

“The «Ӱҵ Jobs Scorecard shows that companies are making steady progress on investing in the American worker,” said «Ӱҵ Capital CEO Martin Whittaker. “We know from our polling that across demographics and political affiliations, this is what the public wants. And we look forward to continuing our work with companies to help them do this as effectively as possible.”

The Scorecard assesses 31 distinct data points across six job quality topics, scoring companies on a scale of 0-4, with 4 being the highest. The final score is determined against research-backed thresholds, which range from “no disclosure” to “leading practice” on the issues that «Ӱҵ tracks. Topics include:

  1. Wages & Compensation: captures practices that support fair, equitable and adequate compensation.
  2. Benefits: captures key benefits policies that support employees.
  3. Hiring & Stability: captures effective recruitment, retention, flexibility, and stability.
  4. Employee Wellness: captures practices that promote physical and mental wellness for employees.
  5. Training & Development: captures opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
  6. Workforce Composition: captures a company’s workforce diversity and its goals to increase representation.

After assessing performance and disclosure across all data points, «Ӱҵ calculates each company’s overall average score in order to categorize their overall performance. Overall performance categories provide a quick snapshot of how far along a given company is on the journey toward transparency on job quality metrics. The following table outlines how companies are increasingly disclosing information related to job quality, but also have room to improve across the board.

The «Ӱҵ Jobs Scorecard follows the release of the «Ӱҵ 100. It is important to note the key ways in which this resource differs from the annual «Ӱҵ «Ӱҵ, both in approach and intended use case. Unlike our annual «Ӱҵ, which assess a company’s performance relative to other companies, the Scorecard provides an individual measure of a company’s current standing on job quality disclosure and performance relative to minimum, common, and leading practice standards. 

«Ӱҵ Capital’s 2024 «Ӱҵ spotlight the corporations who are performing best on the business issues most valued by the American people. These rankings are determined by scoring performance across the full range of criteria and comparing companies head to head. For the annual «Ӱҵ, «Ӱҵ Capital collects and analyzes corporate data to objectively evaluate the 1,000 largest public U.S. companies across 20 Issues identified through comprehensive, ongoing public opinion research on Americans’ attitudes toward responsible corporate behavior. «Ӱҵ Capital has engaged more than 170,000 participants, on a fully representative basis, since 2015.

«Ӱҵ Capital is an independent nonprofit that demonstrates how just business – defined by the priorities of the public – is better business. «Ӱҵ’s process is objective, data driven and non-political. Its rankings consistently demonstrate that the companies that score best on the Issues Americans care about most also outperform their peers financially.

For more information, please reach out to marketing@justcapital.com

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