A whopping 98% of employees polled say flexibility in working spaces improves productivity, finds Polycom and Future Workplace in their joint research on the topic.
What's more, 62% of the respondents already take advantage of flexible workspace benefits. Shared...
Employees in management and professional fields report the higher levels of happiness than other positions, according to a World Gallup Poll. Its World Happiness Report breaks down the who, what, and where of employee satisfaction around the globe.
Here...
A number of job board websites were recently slapped with age discrimination allegations by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. CareerBuilder, Monster, and Indeed were among the six companies listed in Madigan’s probe.
The sites failed to include years in...
Labor Secretary nominee Alexander Acosta squeaked by on a 12-11 vote in the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee last week. The committee voted along party lines, and the next step is Senate approval with a minimum of 52...
Platform for Global Enterprise Staffing and Recruiting Executives Showcases Cutting-Edge Industry Thought Leadership, Research, Trends, and Opinions
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bullhorn, the cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organizations transform their businesses, announced today the launch of the Recruitment Innovation...
Only 98,000 jobs were added to the market in March, compared to the expected 180,000. The unemployment rate, however, hit 4.5%, the lowest since 2007.
Here are some other highlighted labor stats for March:
Wages increased by 0.2%.
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Only 13,500 healthcare jobs were added to the market in March, which is less than half of the 31,400 jobs created in February, according to Modern Healthcare. Hospital jobs made up 8,700 of the positions added in March.
In 2016,...
Temporary employment is up 3.8% from March of last year. From February to March of this year it increased 0.4%. Additionally, the average monthly staffing job growth for Q1 2017 was 3.5%, 2.5 times 2016’s monthly average for the...
About 85% of employees say their company-provided health insurance is either “very important” or “extremely important,” according to a report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
Here are some of the key findings:
Benefits satisfaction and job satisfaction show...
The Department of Labor has been given another extension to file its overtime rule brief to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, this time through June 30. Last fall, the DOL was barred by 21 states from implementing...
