As schools reopen and many employees are still working from home, companies such as PwC and Ernst & Young have boosted benefits to include child care, tutoring and tuition reimbursements. Other benefits include time off for caregiving and no-video Fridays, so employees can schedule personal matters that day.

Red Wing Shoes is challenging companies to post job listings on social media using #LaborDayOn by Labor Day to help people who have lost jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic find work. The company will turn hundreds of its stores into job search hubs, change its toll-free number into a job hotline, and promote the effort via a video and a full-page ad in The New York Times.

Brazilian Football Federation has announced it is paying women and men on its national soccer team an equal wage, including daily rates and prize money. Other national teams, such as in Norway, Australia and New Zealand, are also considering equal pay for their players.

Many manufacturers experiment with the digital solutions of the future but never implement them, largely because of cost concerns, writes Lisa Caldwell. To exit this in-between "pilot purgatory" state, companies should focus on going fully digital across the factory with cloud solutions while also using technology to augment the abilities of workers.

Find ways to meditate or refocus yourself on the present moment to combat some of the loneliness that the seclusion of the pandemic may be producing, write Darren Good and Christopher Lyddy. "We may wish we were at the office with our friends, but until the virus is defeated, our best friends may be whomever -- or perhaps, whatever -- we can see and hear right now," they write.