When many organizations are faced with the need to cut labor costs, the approaches taken are generally unscientific and poorly researched. Many simply do … Read more
12 Ways to Keep Recruiters Busy
If you’re like some corporate recruiting leaders before the current downturn hit, you had your staff balanced with a solid mix of regular full-time … Read more
If You Haven’t Laid People Off Yet, You Probably Won’t
From the department of maybe-things-are-getting-less-bad: “layoffs, hiring freezes, and salary freezes may have finally peaked” in the U.S., … Read more
Fewer Fancy Food Jobs
It’s a good time to bring the kids to Friday’s, Applebee’s, or Chili’s. It’s also a decent time to be a shareholder in Panera … Read more
HR Got Caught With Its Pants Down…Once Again!
Let me apologize upfront for this “rant” on HR’s failure regarding workforce planning, but I can’t think of another time where … Read more
Corporate Alumni and Boomerang Recruiting Programs Are Hot Due to Layoffs
Economic downturns, mergers, and acquisitions all place pressure on organizations to curb labor costs. No time in the last decade has that tenet been more … Read more
The Slashing May Slow
The last we time we were the bearer of bad news from a Watson Wyatt survey, 23% of companies were planning more layoffs. That percentage is way down: 13% … Read more
Employee Furloughs Can Be a Bad Alternative to Layoffs
You can’t read a newspaper these days without reading about organizations that are implementing employee furloughs in order to save money and to … Read more
Why is Unemployment So High, and How to Emerge a Winner
Why is unemployment higher than it has been for decades and massive layoffs announced daily? Is something going on that is deeper than a recession? In past … Read more
Time to Say Goodbye: Are You Keeping the Bad and Terminating the Good?
Any manager who takes an honest look at individual performance knows all employees are not created equally. About 20% of employees rise to the top of the … Read more