Employee Participation

LinkedIn Corp.'s shares climbed more than 6 percent Wednesday after an investment research report weighed in with a favorable opinion about the online professional network's growth prospects.

U.S. companies got more output from their workers this spring than initially thought. Productivity rose at a modest 2.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, largely because employers cut back sharply on hiring.

Men and women both have similar leadership capabilities, according to a new Quantum Workplace survey.

During the first quarter, job absence rates slightly rose, though it remained well below levels recorded before the recession, according to Bloomberg BNA's quarterly survey of job absence and turnover.

Lending to small businesses rose only slightly in July, another sign that companies are hunkering down because of uncertainty about the economy.

The U.N.'s labor office says youth unemployment is likely to rise globally to 12.9 percent by 2017 as more young people leave the work force and the euro crisis spreads to emerging economies.