After three months of holding steady, the U.S. unemployment rate took a surprise jump last month, rising to 9.8 percent. It had been at 9.6 percent. At the … Read more
.Jobs Decision Misses Deadline
Already two weeks beyond the deadline, a decision on the future of the .jobs domain seems even further off now, as the board of the Internet’s … Read more
Largest Employment Increase in Three Years
With two new economic reports today showing hiring growing faster than expected and worker productivity up, the evidence supporting a U.S. recovery is … Read more
Early Reports Support Economic Recovery Hopes
With apologies to Meredith Willson: It’s beginning to look a lot like recovery. Today’s reports all show. Take a look at the confidence, … Read more
Kryptos: The Ultimate Challenge
“Anybody holding a secret has a position of power, even if it’s a trivial secret.” These are the words of Jim Sanborn, designer of the puzzling Kryptos … Read more
Some Economic News to Add to Your Thanksgiving List
On the eve of America’s annual day of Thanksgiving, there’s at least some better economic news to toast than what we’ve seen in a while. … Read more
Best Practice or Most Practice: How to Stop Doing What You’ve Always Done to Achieve Higher Profits
The major airlines and many recruiting firms have a problem in common — both want to be more competitive yet perpetuate the very business practices that … Read more
Jeff’s On Call!: E&O Insurance Advice
This week’s inquiry comes from Norman Lieberman (comment on the Fee Collection and Client Bankruptcy post from last week): Hi Jeff: As a successful … Read more
Dogs Rule. Snakes Earn. Fish Go Into HR
I always suspected there was something more than coincidence that Catbert, the “evil” head of HR where Dilbert works, is a feline. Having … Read more
No Limit on Whose Jobs Go on .Jobs, Says SHRM
The Society for Human Resource Management has essentially repudiated one of the fundamental reasons it and its partner, Employ Media, sought to create a … Read more