Posts by: Mara Lee
According to the Harvard Business Review, a German warehouse found productivity rose nearly 7 percent after they told workers how they compared in productivity and pay:
http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dailystat.php?date=100412
Would that work in your workplace?
During the debate, Romney said that half of recent college grads can’t get work. His source for that statistic is the Associated Press story below, which shows that about a quarter of college grads younger than 25 are unemployed and another quarter are working as waiters, construction workers, retail clerks, teaching aides or other jobs [...]
There was a lot of talk about jobs in the debate last night. From factcheck.org, here’s a bit of a clarification on Romney’s assertion that Obama has failed the country because there are 23 million people who are unemployed.
http://factcheck.org/2012/10/dubious-denver-debate-declarations/
Romney overstated the number of unemployed Americans when he said that there were “23 [...]
Starting next week, the top amount a person who used to work at a job in Connecticut can collect in unemployment will be $591 weekly, up from $573 now. But people who are currently collecting will not see the bump, it’s only for those who lose jobs starting next week.
The maximum is only allowed [...]
One of the biggest misunderstandings among my readers is about who is counted in the Department of Labor’s unemployment rate, currently 9 percent in Connecticut and 8.1 percent nationally.
The estimate is determined by a national telephone survey. Federal employees call more than 60,000 households every single month, and ask the person who answers the [...]
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