Apple completed twentieth within the JUST 100 checklist as a part of its 2024 Rankings of America’s Most JUST Corporations, an annual rating of enormous public firms on points of key significance to the American public.
Whereas Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet proceed to make the checklist, their relative rank has dipped in comparison with earlier years, with solely Apple staying in 2024′s prime 20.
Hewlett Packard completed first amongst tech friends, a perennial sector chief within the JUST 100, in three core classes measured by Simply Capital: staff, communities, and the surroundings. As famous by CNBC, its sturdy set of worker advantages, together with the longest maternity and paternity go away of any firm; its efforts inside communities to deliver staff again into the labor power; and its strict internet zero objectives and carbon emissions disclosures, have been key to rising to the highest of the checklist.
Evaluation of employee pay, advantages and alternatives, greater than another measures, are vital to prime checklist efficiency, with Simply Capital’s methodology based mostly on annual polling of the American public and the way Individuals outline “doing proper by all stakeholders.”
“Employee points are nonetheless entrance and middle,” mentioned Martin Whittaker, founding CEO at Simply Capital, the nonprofit analysis agency based by hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones and others to determine massive public firms that outperform on stakeholder capitalism.
The significance of staff has constantly risen within the polling knowledge, and now represents roughly 42% of the JUST 100 methodology, with “paying a good and dwelling wage” the highest concern inside this class, representing slightly below 18% of the methodology.
The highest 10 within the America’s Most JUST Corporations are: Hewlett Packard, Financial institution of America, Accenture, Intel, Citigroup, the Cigna Group, Ecolab, Elevance Well being, AMD, and Micron. Apple ranks seventeenth on the checklist.
