workforce trends
Maximize Employee Engagement To Minimize Job Leavers
“Job-leavers” is what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calls those workers who quit one job without having secured another. The number of job-leavers is…
Job Creep Creates Overworked, Fatigued Workers
An unpredictable economy and persistent pressure on the bottom line has pushed employers to demand workers to do more with less…and often for less. Many companies are running lean…
3 Reasons Companies Must Engage Workers
The need to engage workers, not just pay them, is a popular topic. Just type “employee engagement” into Google and you’ll quickly come up with nearly 6 million results…
Where the Workplace Ends and Social Media Begins
With the ever-growing popularity of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, companies have been forced to struggle with a difficult issue: where to draw the line between…
13 Stats and Facts – Obesity: A Heavy Burden on Business
One in three U.S. adults is obese. If the current trajectory continues, 50% of the population will be obese by 2030. More than 60% of the United States population…
Why Complexity Drives Managers Crazy
Business life has always featured the unpredictable, the surprising, and the unexpected. What’s changed is that the level of complexity that people have to cope with has simply become…
Recruiting Up, Turnover Down – Will It Continue?
Economists have made no secret of the fact that it will be several years until the United States returns to a healthy unemployment rate of less than six percent. As…
Speaking of jobs: The Coming Jobs War
And speaking of jobs… on the same day that Jobs died, I received an invitation to preview a new book, The Coming Jobs War. This isn’t a book…
Will the US S&P Downgrade Affect the Job Recruiting Process?
On August 5, 2011, Standard & Poor, a credit rating company, downgraded the United States’ credit rating to AA+, one notch below AAA. This decision was a symbolic blow to…
10 Stats and Facts – Telecommuting and Virtual Work
56% of senior leaders and hiring manager of Fortune 500 companies believe virtual work will increase at their company 61% believe their companies will let more people telecommute over the…