Sick Yet? Managing Through H1N1 Season

Tuesday, 11. 17. 2009  –  Category: Absence Management, All Blog Posts, Management Tips

As more and more of our friends and neighbors are experiencing the effects of the H1N1 virus, we thought we’d weigh in with some tips of our own.
As the flu season has unfolded, we’ve been receiving a variety of questions from our customers related to H1N1.  Because we sell data collection devices (time clocks) through [...]

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Announcing Kronos Retail Labor Index

Tuesday, 09. 8. 2009  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Customer Satisfaction, Labor Market, Management Tips, Meaning of Work, Podcast, Work Life Balance

The following guest blog post from Robert Yerex, chief economist at Kronos, introduces the Kronos Retail Labor Index being announced today:
The most interesting part of my job as chief economist at Kronos is working with the huge data sets made available through our hiring system. Based on application and hiring records from 69 of our [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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