Yearly Archives: 2011
Generational Gaps Aren’t Just for Baby Boomers and Millennials
I’m amazed each August when the Beloit College Mindset List is released. And this year’s list for the Class of 2015 is no exception. Originally intended to remind…
21 Stats and Facts – Women & the Workplace
Women have been beating the pants off the men for the better jobs. Here’s 21 stats and facts why women are better educated, getting married later (or not at…
NLRB: Don’t Go Overboard On Social Media Policy
Establishing a policy about the use of social media in the workplace, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ is a complicated task for any employer…
8 Stats and Facts – High School Dropouts
Nearly one out of every four high school students dropout. The cost is high for the dropout, community, and business…
Millennials: Are Trophy Kids Getting a Bad Rap?
Sensationalism in the media and countless books paint a picture about the emerging Millennials that might be more myth than right…
7 Workforce Stats and Facts – Employment Trends
I'm introducing a new weekly feature with this blog post. Not a day goes by that I don't find a statistic, trend, or fact about workforce…
62% of Employee Caregivers Distracted; Presenteeism on the Rise
Caregivers often face difficult, stress-inducing decisions about how to allocate time, money, and resources. often it results in presenteeism…
10 Jobs On Life Support
A recession, outsourcing, and foreign competition aren’t the only reasons we’re losing jobs…
21st Century Jobs: High Demand Skills Can’t Be Automated
Jobs in the 21st century workplace are moving from simple and manual to complex and knowledge-based. High demand skills will be needed for managing, interpreting, validating, transforming, communicating and…
No Kidding Around – High Demand Jobs Do Exist
The first thing that comes to mind when you hear unemployment rates like 2.6%, 2.8%, and 3.8% must be memories of the good-old-days – pre-2007…