Private industry job growth may have stalled last month, but HR jobs continued to grow. New job trend numbers from Indeed.com show that human resource job … Read more
Survey Shows How Businesses Are Struggling With Health Care Changes
Here’s something that shouldn’t be a big surprise: America’s employers are really struggling to come to grips with federally mandated … Read more
Millennials Survey: 70% Say They May Change Jobs When Economy Improves
The recession and slow economic recovery has had an effect on a great many workers, but here’s a new research study by SBR Consulting that shows the … Read more
Fast HRM Part 3: Why Relationships Are So Critically Important
By Theresa M. Welbourne, PhD This series of articles on Fast HRM is devoted to the goal of starting a movement to speed up the delivery of HRM tools and … Read more
One In Three Employees Believe They Are Overqualified For Their Job
In news that should hardly be surprising, a third of employees believe they are overqualified for their current job according to a study commissioned by … Read more
Business Owner and His Job Foreman Each Go To Jail For Worker’s Death
The owner and the foreman of a roofing company have each been sentenced to one-year jail terms because they did not put protection measures in place that … Read more
Workplace Ethics: As Jim Tressel Shows, How You Handle It Counts
Another leader of a multi-million program is out due to ethics violations but this time, it isn’t in Corporate America. Ohio State University … Read more
Should an Employee Buy Life Insurance with Their Retirement Plan?
I recently got a call from an employee who wanted to know if it made sense to use some of his retirement plan funds to purchase a life insurance policy. My … Read more
Oh Canada! Getting Tough on Permits for Americans Working in Canada
By Shannon Stevenson Gone are the days when an employer could send its U.S. citizen employees to the Canadian border with a passport and a simple … Read more
Weekly Wrap: The Tide Seems to Have Turned For Social Media on the Job
I’m a sucker for research and data, and I write a lot about surveys that strike me as particularly interesting or insightful. Here’s another … Read more