What We’re Reading: November 2, 2017

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

The economic cost of Brexit is driving up prices of imported goods, leading companies to cut talent costs, writes The New York Times.

A Japanese marketing firm is giving its nonsmoking employees six more vacation days than their smoking counterparts, Fast Company reports.

While Silicon Valley faces issues around the pay gap, a greater focus on gender inequality in a broader sense will do more to repair divides, writes Quartz.

Although unemployment and business growth is stable since the last recession, household wealth and a weak unemployment-insurance system could mean trouble in the next recession, according to The Atlantic.

Finally, here’s why chief operating officers should think like behavioral economists, via Harvard Business Review.