Right about now you’re probably seeing it everywhere – on shelves near registers at the grocery store, in tiny bags your kids beg you to open and in bowls at Halloween parties…that white, orange and yellow confectionary treat called ‘candy corn.’ Love it or hate it, candy corn has a long history dating back to […] Read Article “How Candy Corn is Made: The many jobs behind Halloween’s classic candy”
Right now across the United States athletes are preparing — in the fields, on the track, on the courts, in the pool and in the ring — for the biggest global sporting event that comes every four years. On August 5th, 2016, over 10,000 athletes from 205 countries will unite in Rio de Janeiro to […] Read Article “The Countdown Begins to Team USA competing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games”
Source: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics “The Employment Situation – October 2014” October marks another positive month for non-farm payroll employment. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its October 2014 unemployment report, showing an overall monthly gain of 214,000 jobs. This number is lower than the 230,000 that economists expected, but not bad […] Read Article “Job Market Update: U.S. Economy on Track to Have Best Job Growth Since 1999”
We are excited to announce that the winner of our 2013 Best Admin Lunch Contest is (drum roll please)… Lou Labelle, a Human Resources Project Coordinator at Herman Miller in Spring Lake, Michigan! Lou is so appreciated by her team at Herman Miller that her manager took the time to nominate her with some high […] Read Article “Congratulations to our 2013 Best Admin Lunch Contest winner!”
As the end of 2012 quickly approaches, Asia Pacific’s economic forecast remains cloudy. Unemployment is still well above average in many nations, business and consumer confidence is lower than usual, and, as has been the case in recent months, Mother Nature continues to influence the region’s economic recovery. Within the last two months alone, typhoons […] Read Article “Retail sales and importation rose in November”
Last month, economists were encouraged by EMEA’s fiscal figures, as regional business and consumer confidence rose in October, while consumer prices remained stable. Such news was certainly welcomed by global economists and regional governmental officials, in the midst of Europe’s double-dip recession.
On December 7th, the BLS released its final “The Employment Situation” report of 2012, just four weeks after Superstorm Sandy struck the northeastern United States. The hurricane was anticipated to negatively impact national employment figures, potentially leading to thousands of layoffs, but, according to the BLS’ latest jobs report, hiring remained robust in November.
In early November, the BLS released one of its most positive jobs reports in recent memory, “The Employment Situation – October 2012.” Although many global economists were pleased with the report’s statistics, as 184,000 new private sector jobs were generated in October, others questioned whether or not such job creation would continue in November.
Back in October, the United States’ national unemployment rate remained below eight percent for the second consecutive month, as the economy generated 171,000 new jobs – the fourth straight month in which more than 100,000 jobs were created. Therefore, the results of the BLS’ latest “Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment” report were not entirely surprising, […] Read Article “Regional unemployment remains low”
Since July, private sector hiring has been quite extensive within the United States, as a majority of sectors have reported a rise in employment. Regardless of such trends, many economists were unsure whether or not private sector hiring would continue to be as wide-ranging in November, after Superstorm Sandy struck the coast of the Mid-Atlantic […] Read Article “Private sector hiring exceeds economists’ projections”