workforce trends

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…

The Rapid Growth of Online Education

When the internet first started to gain popularity with the general population in the 1990s, speculation ran rampant about all of the possibilities this exciting technology could deliver. Some visionaries…

Test Your Assumptions: Past Success May Lead To Dumb Mistakes

One of the reasons Peter Winick sees smart business people making bad decisions is that “they fail to question their assumptions.” That’s particularly true for managers with years of…

Advice for CEOs: Work Your Strengths, Know Your Weakness

Working your strengths might be a good strategy for finding the right career, but ignoring your executive skill weakness can humble and tumble giants…

Only 20 Percent of Workers Qualify for High Demand Jobs

Despite prolonged high unemployment, employers are struggling to find qualified skilled workers? How is this possible?
“Everyone has been caught flatfooted,” according to author/human capital expert Edward Gordon… “we…

Debate Rages On Extending Unemployment Benefits

Millions of Americans who can’t find work are holding their breaths, waiting to see if Congress will extend their unemployment benefits or cut them loose…

Unemployment to Remain High: Abundance of Labor, Poverty of Talent

For the unemployed, the road back to employment seems to be getting longer and longer. Worse it seems to be filled with bumps that will never end…

Workforce trends 2010: Changing Career Paradigms

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You can pay now…or pay later

My workforce blogging colleague Jim Kissane always comes up with interesting trends and topics.  In his most recent post, he urges organizations to think twice before cutting training. In…

You won’t believe what the energy industry is running out of!

While Washington tries to figure out how the U.S. can free ourselves from our dependence on oil, another shortage is going to create a seismic shift in our ability…