Get Sick? You’re On Your Own

Friday, 03. 6. 2009  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Management Tips

Check out this discouraging news from a recent Hewitt survey, The Road Ahead: Emerging Health Trends 2009.  Nineteen percent of 343 Benefits executives they surveyed are planning to stop offering health benefits over the next three to five years, nearly five times as many as the 4% that said they were planning an exit strategy [...]

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Workforce Stimulus Plan

Tuesday, 01. 20. 2009  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Labor Market, Management Tips, Workforce Development

As our new President is inaugurated today, we’re all keen to see the audacity of hope converted into the realization of productive change that can restore our economy and put our growing numbers of unemployed Americans back to work. One of the most burning issues for many Americans is what the new administration will do [...]

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Climbing the Hourly Ladder – An Interview with Paul Facella

Wednesday, 12. 31. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Customer Satisfaction, Employee Retention, HR Technology, Labor Market, Management Tips, Podcast, Workforce Development, Workforce Software

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Facella, a former Regional Vice President of McDonald’s Corporation and now CEO of Inside Management.  He is author of Everything I Know about Business I Learned at McDonald’s (McGraw-Hill, 2008).   During Paul’s 34 year career with McDonald’s, he learned a lot about growing his own career as [...]

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Reasons to be Optimistic in 2009

Wednesday, 12. 24. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Labor Market, Management Tips

If I hear “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” one more time on the radio, I’m going to scream.  One of the fundamental principles you learn when you study finance is that the value of organizations is more than the sum of their actual parts – and that the confidence that investors feel about their [...]

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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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