To recruit and retain women. A measly one percent. That’s it. When 1,226 employers were asked what their primary reasons were for developing workplace flexibility, caregiving leaves and dependent care initiatives, recruiting and retaining women was last on the list. Dead last. Granted, retaining employees in general came in at 37 percent, followed by helping [...]
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The future of workplace flexibility is the woman (I bet)
Posted: 8th May 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Career Management, Economics, Human Resources, Leadership, Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Workplace CultureTags: Families and Work Institute, human resources, retention, SHRM, women in the workplace, workplace flexibility
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The most productive and profitable get us across
Posted: 6th May 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Business-to-Business (B2B), Economics, HR Technology, Human Resources, Product Development, Recruiting, Talent AcquisitionTags: HR technology, HRO Today Forum, job creation, job growth, recruiting technology, startups
It’s like crossing a fast-moving river in a boat without a motor or a paddle, while you slowly sink. At least that’s what it feels like when you have yet another anemic month of job growth — only 115,000 jobs in April (which may get revised upward like other months, but still). But economists keep telling [...]
Innovation is the heart of job creation
Posted: 27th April 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Business Development, Economics, HR Supplier, HR Technology, Human Resources, Product Development, Recruiting, Talent AcquisitionTags: economics, HR technology, innovation, job creation, recruiting technology, silicon valley
It’s not really a war; it’s a mobilization of innovation and motivated minds — the leaders, the builders, the doers, all the combined skills that make up rocket soup and of course the money that make it all happen, with barriers to business entry lower than the’ve ever been (rocket soup is what rockets needs to run on in one [...]