workforce trends
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…
What’s Coming Next? 3 Lessons Learned in Great by Choice
Jim Collins, in his new book Great by Choice, tells us that “we cannot predict the future. But we can create it.” (That’s actually a Peter Drucker quote, which…
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…
5 Things Employers Can Do To Simplify (and Improve) Recruiting
With the national unemployment rate hovering around 9 percent, so many people are looking for work that a resu-mess has been created that floods inboxes and cripples applicant processing…
Surprise! The War for Talent Is Heating Up
Despite a stubborn unemployment rate near 9 percent, a new survey reveals a compelling and threatening message for employers who might be feeling a bit complacent and lax in adapting…
New Video: How To Use Social Media for Job Search and Recruitment
For the second straight year, I had the privilege and pleasure of being a panelist at the Harrisburg University Social Media Summit (September 14, 2011). Like last year, the event…
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…
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…