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April 4, 2021 The past year has brought seismic changes to workplace culture. “The factors that drive employee engagement have shifted,” says Julia Anas, chief people officer at Qualtrics, an employee experience analytics company. While still looking for growth and leadership opportunities, “employees value a sense of belonging more than ever before,” she says. But that isn’t all employees want. They’re also looking for flexibility and a relief from the pressure to always be on when working from home. Enrich your perspective. Embolden your work. Become a Quartz member. Your member...

March 16, 2021 At the end of May last year, as protests exploded over police killings of Black Americans, numerous fashion and beauty companies went online to post their messages of support for the Black community and the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as to pledge their own commitments to change. Instagram was a preferred channel for these declarations. It’s become a vital way for companies to connect directly with audiences, and its photo-based sharing has made it particularly powerful for fashion and beauty brands. Companies published statements expressing solidarity, posted black ...

March 16, 2021 The results are clear. Companies increased the diversity of skin tones in their Instagram posts, following their mid-2020 pledges to support Black Lives Matter and, in particular, commitment to improving representation. However, it is also clear that those increases were often only marginal. For all of our readers, we visualized the data we collected for nine of 34 brands. Exclusively for Quartz members, here are the data and visualizations for every brand we analyzed, representing a selection of companies across different segments of the fashion and beauty industries. We reach...

January 20, 2021 Joe Biden isn’t wasting time. On his first day in office, the newly inaugurated US president signed 17 executive actions. It’s not unprecedented for world leaders to get to work on day one, but the number of directives on Biden’s desk is much higher than usual. It took his recent predecessors weeks to sign 17 executive orders. Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton signed four executive orders or memos on their first day—combined. Biden’s executive orders vs Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton The orders are wide ranging, including directives to reverse the “Muslim travel ba...

January 15, 2021 On Dec. 30. the EU and China agreed in principle on a deal that will govern their bilateral investment going forward. The Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) was first proposed in 2012, as Europe increasingly saw its economic future in Asia (pdf), and sought out deeper ties with Beijing. Their relations have taken a hit since then, poisoned by the US-China trade war and a crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Many—this writer included—thought the CAI would fall victim to these tensions. But that didn’t happen. Chinese president Xi Jinping got i...