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21% of US employers plan to increase workforce in Q1 2005

In the latest Manpower Employment Outlook survey 21% of employers plan to hire in Q1 2005, up from 20% in Q4 2004 and up from 14% a year ago. Over the three months ending Nov. 30, job growth has averaged 178,000 jobs per month. Employment is up 2.3 million jobs...

Tags: employers plan, Q1 2004, Q1 2005

Blog posts 2004-12-13

21% of US employers plan to increase workforce in Q1 2005

In the latest Manpower Employment Outlook survey 21% of employers plan to hire in Q1 2005, up from 20% in Q4 2004 and up from 14% a year ago. Over the three months ending Nov. 30, job growth has averaged 178,000 jobs per month. Employment is up 2.3 million jobs...

Tags: Q1 2004, Q1 2005, employers plan

Blog posts 2004-12-13

Additional Resources

Is Google the Center of the Universe?

It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...

Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Jarvis, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-24

What open source can teach medical practice

Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

The medical home is reform without objections, so far

Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, United HealthCare, DUI, public entity, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

The emergency room myth busted

ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, emergency room myth, Odds Ratio

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Corporate health reform comes to our house

It doesn't matterAll the health care reform bills currently in congress eliminate HSAs.RE: Corporate health reform comes to our houseYou were wrong about one thing. Health Savings Account do not roll over.It is true you can use some of what is left in the first quarter of the next...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, HSA, HRA, network

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

A single national market for health care

health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Max Baucus opens his kimono

PelosiObamaReidCare PORC is a Fascist Pig In a constitutional republic like ours, the government's powers are limited by a constitution that protects our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. PelosiObamaReidCare PORC would violate the unalienable rights of patients, doctors, and business owners by forcing 1)...

Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Insurance, health care, Max Baucus, office visit, health insurance, kimono

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Should you benefit from ACN’s bloodletting?

If you like great talent, you should….. Accenture has cut loose many senior executives recently and will pare some more given last Thursday’s announcement. I know some of these folks. Specific vertical segments have been pared down to reflect new market realities. These include: automotive...

Tags: Consultant, Benefit, Workforce Management, Professional Development, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Career, Sales, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Health insurance is an oxymoron

Meaningful reformOne. Allow insurance companies to offer any kind of plan they want ranging from catastrophic to "we'll pay for pimples," and price them accordingly. Eliminate the requirement that insurance companies have to cover pre-existing conditions without being able to charge higher rates.Two. Lower the costs of being in the...

Tags: Financial Planning, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health insurance, insurance, health care, insurance company, personal responsibility

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

The iPhone Telephony Tragedy

I've got a first gen iPhone and live in San Francisco, the heart of Apple country. The voice communication part of it has been slowly getting worse and is now virtually unusable. A first gen iphone is of course ancient history to an Apple or Mobile...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Telephony, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Service, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Use H-1B or L-1 workers? Prepare for a Federal audit!

Audits for firms sponsoring L-1 and H-1B Visa Well, looks like the Feds are going to get around to auditing the firms that use L-1 and H-1B visas. Specifically, they’ll be verifying that the people who applied for these permits are who they purport themselves to...

Tags: L-1, Audit, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Who might get health reform passed?

They're notAnother poll shows that 71% of those surveyed believe there should be a public option. Again, it's of those surveyed - not all Americans. Sort of like your poll.As for the Round Table, I think most large companies are aware of how much their health care benefits...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, public option, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Goldman Sachs: BlackBerry, iPhone own smartphones, but if Apple ever gets an enterprise subsidy...

Goldman Sachs is increasing its smartphone forecast based on a consumer survey that reveals Research in Motion and Apple are the runaway winners in the field, but for vastly different reasons. RIM enjoys enterprise sponsorship, but iPhone's stealth business use campaign is working. The survey in many...

Tags: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Reformulating Murphy's law

Reformulating Murphy's lawInteresting thoughtsIt's saddening that thought is such a rare thing among us humans.Imagine how different the world might have been.[i]"The applications to IT are less obvious but equally compelling. If you believe, for example, in the achievability of wintel security, you?ll spend lots of money setting your employer...

Tags: Operating systems, Wintel, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-08-01

Plan for Success: Knowledge Worker Training and On-Boarding Are Easy With Process Automation

No matter how large or small a company is, employee turnover is inevitable. Although smart employers work hard to retain good people, few give enough thought to ensuring effective on-boarding of new hires that will ensure their success. Costs of recruiting, hiring, and training knowledge workers vary, ranging from 50%...

Tags: Process Automation, Knowledge Worker, Training, Optical Image Technology, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Strategy, Human Resources, Management

White papers 2009-08-01

Microhoo lessons for open source

Microhoo lessons for open sourceThe truth is UGLY!... and it hurts!Sob, sniffle, wimper, wimper ....LOL....I think you summed it all up when you mentioned..."corporate open source backers"IMO thats NOT open source. Those are the companies striving to make money from the concept. Now you'll have all the NBM'er Microbrains running...

Tags: F/OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Risk rating for fatties?

Risk rating for fatties?But where are the exceptions?My wife went on heavy steroids when she was treated for acute leukemia. That changes your shape pretty fast - guess you could call it a bloating side effect.Actually, I prefer the tax on "fat food", including sugar based drinks, to build...

Tags: Vertical industries, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance company, government, insurance, health care, fatty

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Survey shows influx of companies using social networks for recruiting

Jobvite, a recruitment solutions provider, today issued the results of its second annual Social Recruitment Survey. The data shows that employers are more and more extensively recruiting on social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. It also shows that the companies appear more satisfied with these types of recruits versus...

Tags: Job, Facebook, Network, Recruiting, Survey, Twitter, Candidate, Social Networking, Recruitment & Selection, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-05-20