Undercover with the Boss

Wednesday, 02. 17. 2010  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Labor Productivity, Management Tips

If you haven’t seen the new CBS TV show Undercover Boss, it’s worth checking out.  Perhaps not so much for the cheesy endings (at least on the first two episodes) where outcomes are achieved for individual employees that rival Queen for a Day in terms of bathos.  What is “new” here, though, is our ability [...]

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February Retail Labor Index

Monday, 02. 8. 2010  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Labor Market

The February release of the Kronos Retail Labor Index shows that in January 2010, retail applicants came back into the market in force, with a 20% increase in applications over December 2009.  We had observed a seasonally adjusted decline in applications at the end of 2009, possibly due to workers becoming discouraged by their holiday [...]

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