workforce trends
What Happens If We Don’t Need All Those Jobs
Maybe this is a blinding flash of the obvious. But no job is sacred anymore. While politicians argue and evangelize about their plan to create jobs or how pathetic the…
12 Stats and Facts – Time Wasted @Work Adds Up
1. Average hours American worker actually wastes – 2.09 hours per day 2. Top 5 Time-Wasting Excuses (%) Don’t have enough work to do 33.2% Underpaid…
10 Stats and Facts – Job Skill Mismatch
In the coming years, not enough American workers will have the right skills to fill the jobs that will be available. There are too many workers with a high school…
8 Stats and Facts – Jobless Recovery Here to Stay?
It seems that on this Labor Day weekend, the jobless recovery is here to stay. 14 million people remain unemployed. The unemployment rate remains at 9.1%. Politics aside, should…
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…