Working the Holidays – Who’s Working?

Tuesday, 12. 16. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Labor Market, Work Life Balance

Today we’ve published the results of our most recent Harris Survey “Despite Weak Economy, Desire for Time Off During the Holidays Remains Strong”.  Seventy-five percent of respondents said they plan to take either the same amount or more time off than they did last year.
Only 19 percent of respondents said they plan to take less [...]

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Tips for Making Telecommuting Successful

Tuesday, 11. 11. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Employee Tips, Management Tips, Work Life Balance

I recently interviewed Patty Butler, senior manager of order management and service logistics at Kronos.  Patty’s team of non-exempt employees supports the field sales organization by ensuring that their customers’ orders are processed accurately and in a timely fashion.  Patty has recently implemented part time telecommuting in her group with great success.  For those of [...]

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Treating Hourly Workers like Professional Employees

Tuesday, 09. 23. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Labor Market, Workforce Development

Today’s post is courtesy of our board member,  Steven T. Hunt, Ph.D, SPHR.

A recent study found that many American workers between 18 and 29 plan to remain in hourly jobs for the majority of their careers (Gurchiek, 2008). This includes careers in what are sometimes viewed as “entry-level” hourly jobs found in the retail, service, [...]

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Russell Klosk: Hiring for Retention

Friday, 09. 5. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention

We’ve added a new article to our library by our board member, Russell Klosk.  The article focuses on tactical steps that employers can take during the hiring process to increase the odds that the candidate chosen for the position will be a good fit for the job.   Even as the US jobless rate rose to [...]

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Running on Empty

Wednesday, 08. 20. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Management Tips, Workforce Development

We’ve just published the results of our newest Harris Interactive survey.  In this poll of 1106 working adults, our goal was to understand how the current state of the economy is impacting the average worker.  Not surprisingly, many of these respondents indicated that they were cutting back on discretionary expenditures such as eating out and [...]

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