A Growing Way To Cut Pay: Companies Treating Workers As Contractors

An expensive demo, an unfulfilled Metaverse—Meta has become the Queen of Vaporware. This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission.

The nomination process for The Denver Post’s Top Workplaces program has begun. It’s the 14th year The Post is honoring the workplaces with the top cultures in the state. Any organization with 50 or more employees in the state is eligible to earn Top Workplaces recognition. The nomination deadline is Nov. 1. Anyone can nominate any organization, whether it is public, private, non-profit, a school, or even a government agency. Companies will be honored in spring 2025.

Armed with a roll of stickers and GoPro cameras, Mark Thompson and his crew patrolled the Sports Castle Lofts construction site at Broadway and 10th Street near downtown Denver. The team calls itself the “Payroll Fraud Task Force,” aimed at rooting out wage theft and employee misclassification at job sites across Colorado. On a recent September morning, the team talked up workers on their lunch break, asking if they’re being paid correctly and on time.

Today’s travel trends are showing where people are going, who they are going with and what they want to do while on a trip. “People are taking more trips and they are talking about them with their friends,” said Randy Yaroch, CEO and owner of The Travel Society in Greenwood Village.

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and decisionmakers, click here.) Over the past decade as CEO of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Lisa Su, one of the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI, has steered one of Silicon Valley’s most impressive turnarounds by focusing on the company’s strengths, and striking strategic deals and partnerships.

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