November 19, 2016 Cait Etherington
30% of annual retail sales take place between Black Friday and Christmas. An especially high percentage of sales take place over the Thanksgiving weekend. To put this into perspective, consider just a few 2015 sales figures. On Black Friday, over 74 million Americans went shopping. While this may sound like a huge chunk of the […]
read moreMay 16, 2016 Cait Etherington
Deloitte’s recently released study found that in 2016, the top priority for talent managers is organization design. As the study reports: After three years of struggling to drive employee engagement and retention, improve leadership, and build a meaningful culture, executives see a need to redesign the organization itself, with 92 percent of survey participants rating […]
read moreMay 1, 2016 Cait Etherington
A recent report in the Wall Street Journal found that at least some companies that traditionally hired high numbers of part-time workers, including retailers and fast-food outlets, are focusing on full-time hires instead. Bucking broader hiring trends that continue to see more part-time, temporary and contingent workers across sectors nationwide, these companies are reassessing the […]
read moreMarch 18, 2016 Ashley Sutphin
Mergers and acquisitions can strike fear in the heart of employees. If you’re a fan of the show Mad Men, you’ll remember the sense of anxiety that hit the fictional Sterling Cooper Agency when word spread a London-based advertising firm was buying them. That feeling of panic once again hit the employees when yet another […]
read moreFebruary 13, 2016 Don Weobong
The Advantages of Employee Engagement Employee engagement is something most, if not all, companies are now striving for. In traditional models of talent management it was enough to have employees who were merely showing up for work and seemingly getting the job done, but now businesses big and small are increasingly seeing this just isn’t […]
read moreJanuary 11, 2016 Ashley Sutphin
In today’s economy, the phrase start-up tends to evoke the concept of a glamorous lifestyle in which entrepreneurs become their own bosses and create multi-million dollar companies. While this may be the case for very few startups, the actual reality is one that involves long work days, struggling to find funding, and one of the […]
read moreDecember 16, 2015 Ashley Sutphin
Before diving into the newest trend in talent management, consider these facts about student loan debt: From 2004 to 2014, the average amount of debt carried by college students at graduation rose an astounding 56 percent. A recent report from The Institute for College Access and Success showed that average debt rates went from $18,550 […]
read moreDecember 7, 2015 Ashley Sutphin
Remote employees are no longer an anomaly—they’re becoming more of the norm not just in the U.S., but the world, and while the advantages of these employees can be tremendous, talent management leaders are looking at how to ensure they’re well-trained, part of the company culture, and appreciated.
read moreNovember 25, 2015 Don Weobong
As we approach Thanksgiving in the U.S., that means that Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year’s and the other winter holidays aren’t far behind. For most people, this means a time of celebration and gathering with friends and family, but for employers it can mean a time when employees lose focus, take substantial amounts of time […]
read moreNovember 16, 2015 Ashley Sutphin
In the U.S. right now the hourly employee is a part of the labor segment frequently discussed, but often misunderstood.
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