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Canva is eliminating 22% of its workforce as part of a restructuring led by CEO Melanie Perkins. The package includes up to a year of healthcare coverage, career coaching, and $10,000 grants for employee projects, drawing praise from workers and business observers.
10:34 AMFortune
Lululemon CEO Heidi O’Neill is filling key brand and strategy roles as she builds out the senior leadership team established last month. The appointments form part of a broader reset under her leadership.
4:05 PMWWDCoty is reportedly preparing substantial layoffs in France as part of a broader overhaul of its operating model. The changes indicate a push to reduce or reorganize local operations as the company pursues its wider strategy.
3:16 PMWWDSummary
Canva is eliminating 22% of its workforce as part of a restructuring led by CEO Melanie Perkins. The package includes up to a year of healthcare coverage, career coaching, and $10,000 grants for employee projects, drawing praise from workers and business observers.
Canva is pairing a large workforce reduction with unusually generous transition support. That approach raises
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The package sets a higher standard for how companies can manage layoffs while protecting morale and future recruiting power.
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Lululemon CEO Heidi O’Neill is filling key brand and strategy roles as she builds out the senior leadership team established last month. The appointments form part of a broader reset under her leadership.
O’Neill is moving from leadership design to execution by staffing the roles that will shape
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Lululemon’s leadership hires will reveal whether its reset is a structural change or a rebranding of the existing strategy.
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Coty is reportedly preparing substantial layoffs in France as part of a broader overhaul of its operating model. The changes indicate a push to reduce or reorganize local operations as the company pursues its wider strategy.
Expected layoffs would make France an immediate testing ground for Coty's restructuring, with employees and
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The French restructuring shows that Coty's strategic overhaul is moving from corporate planning into direct workforce and operating changes.
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Justin Boxford is leaving Estée Lauder, where he oversaw the company’s luxury beauty portfolio, including La Mer, after joining in 2004. The company has not yet named his successor.
4:52 PMWWD
Emily Feingold has joined Disney as executive vice president of communications after nine years at Netflix. She will oversee media relations, financial and technology communications, enterprise editorial, and messaging for executives and brands.
12:30 PMVarietyGXO CEO Patrick Kelleher says the company's Asia business has substantial long-term growth potential despite generating less than $100 million today. He sees a path toward a regional operation comparable with GXO's roughly $6 billion U.K. and nearly $4 billion North American businesses.
12:07 PMWWD
New research found that men who engage in workplace gossip are viewed as less competent and less qualified for leadership than women who display the same behavior. The findings suggest that gossip carries a stronger career penalty for men, even though prominent business leaders often condemn it broadly.
11:02 AMFortuneLiz Rodbell has been named group president of Perry Ellis International. She will oversee the company’s core sportswear brands, licensing operations, and strategic growth initiatives.
12:01 AMWWDSummary
Justin Boxford is leaving Estée Lauder, where he oversaw the company’s luxury beauty portfolio, including La Mer, after joining in 2004. The company has not yet named his successor.
Boxford’s departure creates a leadership gap in one of Estée Lauder’s most important luxury businesses.
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The transition puts Estée Lauder’s luxury portfolio under interim strategic pressure until it names a successor.
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Emily Feingold has joined Disney as executive vice president of communications after nine years at Netflix. She will oversee media relations, financial and technology communications, enterprise editorial, and messaging for executives and brands.
Disney is consolidating a broad communications mandate under an executive with experience at another scaled
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The hire gives Disney a senior operator tasked with making a complex corporate strategy more coherent across stakeholders.
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GXO CEO Patrick Kelleher says the company's Asia business has substantial long-term growth potential despite generating less than $100 million today. He sees a path toward a regional operation comparable with GXO's roughly $6 billion U.K. and nearly $4 billion North American businesses.
GXO is shifting Asia from a small operating unit into a central growth bet. That
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Asia could become GXO's next major growth engine, but management must prove that its ambition can translate into profitable scale.
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New research found that men who engage in workplace gossip are viewed as less competent and less qualified for leadership than women who display the same behavior. The findings suggest that gossip carries a stronger career penalty for men, even though prominent business leaders often condemn it broadly.
The decisive finding is a gendered double standard in how informal workplace behavior affects perceived
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The research shows that workplace norms can shape advancement unevenly even when the behavior itself is identical.
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Liz Rodbell has been named group president of Perry Ellis International. She will oversee the company’s core sportswear brands, licensing operations, and strategic growth initiatives.
Rodbell now holds a broad operating mandate spanning brands, licensing, and growth strategy. The appointment
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PEI is consolidating responsibility for its brand portfolio and growth agenda as it seeks to coordinate operations across core sportswear and licensing.
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