What We’re Reading: September 11, 2017

These are the day’s top talent stories from around the web.

Politics

Companies in today’s tight labor market are increasingly looking to establish a presence in cities with a high number of underemployed workers in an effort to recruit them, reports The Wall Street Journal.

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As Amazon pushes forward with using more robots, employees at the e-commerce giant are finding new roles, writes The New York Times.

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The growing gap between black and white workers’ wages in the U.S. is getting more difficult to explain, according to Quartz.

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Amazon’s search for a second U.S.-based headquarters gets right the idea that companies increasingly need to move to where workers are, not vice versa, writes The Washington Post.

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Finally, are business leaders accurately measuring their firms’ digital strength? Harvard Business Review explores.