Guest Blog: The Obama Workforce Agenda
Friday, 01. 30. 2009 – Category: All Blog Posts, Labor Market, Management Tips, Workforce Development
The following guest blog post is submitted by our board member, Russell Klosk:
Even as we all watched the swearing in of our 44th President with the hope that things are going to get better, we are grappling with current business and human resource environments plagued by the global economic recession and the worry that it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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