Jobs
President’s Job Council Advisor Endorses Romney
Mitt Romney’s White House bid comes down to business experience – i.e. he has it, the president doesn’t.
To that end, the Romney campaign trotted out a roster of well-known business leaders Thursday who are backing the Republican presidential nominee. Supporters include Charles Schwab, Cisco Chief Executive John Chambers and Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot. The newest name on […]
IT’S OFFICIAL: UBS Announces Up To 10,000 Job Cuts
Swiss banking giant UBS intends to cut nearly 10,000 jobs worldwide in a restructuring of its hard-hit investment bank, the group said on Tuesday reporting that reorganisation costs had pushed it deep into loss in the third quarter.
The costs switched the Swiss bank’s third-quarter results into a 2.2-billion Swiss franc net loss compared to the 1.0 billion […]
The Gig Economy:Now that everyone has a project-to-project freelance career, everyone is a hustler
No one I know has a job anymore. They’ve got Gigs.
Gigs: a bunch of free-floating projects, consultancies, and part-time bits and pieces they try and stitch together to make what they refer to wryly as “the Nut”—the sum that allows them to hang on to the apartment, the health-care policy, the baby sitter, and the […]
Yuri Milner: 40 Million Retail Jobs Are Going To Disappear
Russian internet investor Yuri Milner had an ominous prediction for the retail industry and its many workers at a conference earlier this week in Ukraine.
He said that there will be “a pretty significant job loss in the retail sector to the tune of 40 million jobs in the next 20 years,” according to Chrystia Freeland at Reuters.
What’s going to […]
Jobless Claims Drop Less Than Expected, Down 3,000 to 382,000
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Jobless Claims Drop Less Than Expected, Down 3,000 to 382,000; Analysts Expected Claims to Drop to 373,000 (story developing)
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10 Top Telecommuting Jobs
As technology makes it increasingly easy to punch the clock in a virtual office, employees once tied to a desk may now have the ability to work from home or even abroad. In fact, studies from Global Workplace Analytics, a research and consultancy firm headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., show that approximately 3 million U.S. workers […]
Disability Ranks Outpace New Jobs In Obama Recovery
More workers joined the federal government’s disability program in June than got new jobs, according to two new government reports, a clear indicator of how bleak the nation’s jobs picture is after three full years of economic recovery.
The economy created just 80,000 jobs in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. But that same […]
Job losses in 2009 likely bigger than thought
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy likely shed more jobs last year than previously thought, but analysts say the undercount by the government should prove less severe than it did during depths of the recession.
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400 Thousands Truck Driving Jobs Need To Be Filled BY 2011
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Can’t find a job? Maybe it’s time to take your search on the road.
The U.S. trucking industry will need to hire about 200,000 drivers by the end of this year, and will need to add another 200,000 by the end of 2011, according to the state of logistics report from the […]