The Australian job market has become more hostile for jobseekers, new figures show.The Seek Employment index, the ratio of online job advertisements to applications, fell by 4.4 per cent in July to 76.0 index points, seasonally adjusted.This was the index's eighth monthly fall in a row and was the...
What do Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen Xers and Millenials Gen Y have in common? They are all working side by side in the workplace and the need to balance the generational differences is at its greatest ever. This diversity brings many advantages, from life experience and polished expertise...
At least 60 production jobs at fruit cannery SPC Ardmona will be lost after the company announced a restructure to combat drought conditions and competition from imported goods.The job losses follow the cut of 50 middle management positions at the company in January this year.SPC managing director Nigel Garrard...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - The number of people placed in permanent jobs fell last month at its fastest rate since the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in 2001, a report showed on Wednesday, in a sign the economic slowdown is biting hard. The Recruitment and Employment...
The number of job ads dropped slightly in July despite a host of falling economic indicators, with the building and construction sector hardest hit, according to a survey.The Olivier Job Index fell 0.54 per cent in July, with the building and construction sector falling 4.62 per cent as building...
By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate hit its highest in four years during July as employers cut jobs for a seventh straight month, though less severely than predicted, a Labor Department report showed on Friday. The rising toll of...
More signals that the revolution is on hold. Last month we noted that Steve Case's ambitiously named Revolution Health was moving out of the B2B business and laying off 20 percent of the workforce. We also mentioned that the company as according various strategic options. Now there's a...
Starbucks says costs related to its closure of 600 underperforming stores led it to post a loss in its fiscal third quarter.The Seattle-based coffee chain reported a loss on Wednesday of $US6.7 million ($A7.04 million), or 1 cent per share, compared to a profit of $US158.3 million ($A166.35 million),...
Monster, the incumbent job site, has announced a couple of deals this afternoon, as it looks to fight off upstart competitors, like LinkedIn, Craigslist, Indeed.com and TheLadders? first it has acquired Mountain View-based Trovix, a site that applies semantic search technology to job search. The acquisition price was $72.5...
You've probably noticed what I've noticed: Soaring gas prices are finally, finally, causing people to change their behavior. Take me, for example. I now share my 44-mile commute into Boston with a co-worker, something I thought I would never do. So people are ready to change. How...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private employers added 9,000 jobs in July, according to a private report by ADP Employer Services released on Wednesday. In June, the private sector slashed 77,000, according to revised data. June was originally reported as 79,000 jobs lost. The...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Mortgage bank Northern Rock, nationalised in February, confirmed on Wednesday that it would cut 2,000 jobs by 2011, with 1,300 jobs going through redundancy and the rest through turnover as staff depart. The bank, which nearly collapsed last year, said voluntary ...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Confectionery group Cadbury CBRY is to review its costs which could lead to more job losses and factory closures in an uncertain economic outlook and as commodity costs rise. "Dealing with the macro environment is scary. We are dealing with cocoa...
This was to be expected: CyberMedia Group's tech focused jobs portal called CyberMediaDice.com has been shut down and the site and its uses are being redirected to TimesJobs.com, the jobs site owned by BCCL. Earlier this year the U.S.-based online jobs firm Dice Holdings sold its stake in CybermediaDice...
By Ilaina Jonas NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two of the biggest U.S. apartment owners reported strong results, despite the absence of a strong job market that often fuels their growth. AvalonBay Communities Inc AVB, which has expanded in highly constrained markets was able...
If you do a lot of reading or research in your job, taking notes the old-fashioned way can really slow you down as you're wading through tons of white papers or reams of reports. But here's a hack that's guaranteed to speed things up: an approach called the Morse Code...
By Burton Frierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumer confidence halted a six-month slide in July, but barely climbed from its lowest level in more than a decade, while home prices continued their record decline in May. The Conference Board said its overall monthly...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp SBUX said on Tuesday that it would cut 1,000 jobs as it tries to overhaul its business, and the head of its international business is leaving the company. Martin Coles will move from the role of chief operating...
Almost 700 Australian cafe workers will lose their jobs when international coffee chain Starbucks closes 61 underperforming shops over the next five days.The Australian arm of the US-based company will close the cafes, shedding 685 jobs, by this Sunday as part of a strategy to slash underperforming outlets and...
It appears our workplace boozing post touched a few hot buttons, especially those of BNET reader, Acrebel, who is dead set against allowing any alcohol in the workplace, and who lays out a pretty tight case against it: I am utterly opposed to alcohol in the workplace, for...
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