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A new hiring forecast released by Brilliant—a search, staffing, and management resources firm—studies the hiring trends and business factors affecting accounting, finance, and information technology (IT) professionals in the greater Chicago and south Florida labor markets.
Ayishah Williams has more than 20 years of strategic HR, consulting, and business operations experience. Throughout her impressive career, Williams has done everything from developing teams to building and implementing HR best practices at startups – all in the belief that a holistic approach to HR can create measurable and lasting organizational change. Currently, she […]
by John Vering On Oct. 3, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ reported that over the past 12 months, the number of unemployed has increased by 2.2 million and the unemployment rate has risen by 1.4 percentage points. Total nonfarm payroll employment decreased by 159,000 in September and thus far in 2008, payroll employment has […]
Supervisors and managers with the best of intentions say the worst possible things. Some are said out of concern and some out of a desire to “act like a manager.” But they’re all dangerous. Here’s a rogues’ gallery of 7 of the most troublesome.
With the roll out of the American Rescue Plan comes renewed hope for increasing headcounts in the second quarter of 2021.
An unfortunate issue employers continue to face is the rise of workplace violence. The most recent statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show 392 workplace homicides and 37,060 nonfatal workplace injuries resulting from an intentional injury by another person in 2020, when many workers were forced to stay home due to the global pandemic. By all accounts, workplace […]
A new report finds that global employee engagement levels, which took a slight dip in 2016, jumped back to an all-time high in 2017.
The past year has included many expected moves by the Trump administration, such as the reversal of some of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) controversial decisions under the Obama administration, as well as several unexpected developments among several agencies.
With the rise of the “gig economy” comes the realization that the world of talent as we know it is changing. Gone are the days when a company “owned” all of its employees. Now, most companies are lucky if just a small fraction of their workers are solely dedicated to them. With more and more […]
The Cadillac Tax is coming, and you need to make some decisions. One of the most controversial provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Cadillac Tax, is an excise tax on “rich” health insurance benefits. As of 2018 when the tax begins, “rich” means a value that exceeds $10,200 for self-only and $27,500 for […]