President-elect Donald Trump has brokered a deal to keep Carrier from shipping almost 1,000 jobs to Mexico, the company confirmed on Twitter. The deal includes tax and other incentives to keep the company operating in Indianapolis.
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Not all recruiters will be helpful when it comes to landing a job, so it makes sense to evaluate them to see whether they can actually assist you or not. You may be wasting your time by talking to a recruiter who hasn't taken the time to view your LinkedIn profile, writes Liz Ryan.
Why Platform Matters When Choosing an ERP System In order to survive, grow, and compete in the digital age, organizations need an ERP that is highly flexible and able to adapt. So, what are the tough platform questions you should ask yourself when shopping for an ERP? Download the report to find out!
Age is a complicated topic for companies, as older workers have lower unemployment rates but take longer to overcome layoffs, among other issues. This article urges companies to have an age-diversity strategy that emphasizes hiring across age groups, offers benefits packages that appeal to different generations and focuses on cross-generational training.
Get with the flow. How payment processing affects cash flow. Cash flow is the lubricant of business. Without a healthy cash flow, business dries up. It stops. It can't function. Which is why it is vital to keep the revenues coming in as the expenses go out. But there's one aspect of cash flow that many of us are not aware of. It is how managing credit cards and other such non-cash payments affect cash flow. Turns out it has a huge affect. Download the free guide today.
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An injunction to the Labor Department's overtime rule, which was to start today, has created uncertainty for companies and workers. Many salaried full-timers were counting on extra income, while employers have committed to the increase or have reclassified workers to avoid extra pay.
Noisy or messy eaters and technological problems are among chief distractions in the workplace, according to a survey of UK small-business workers. Such distractions can diminish productivity, especially because statistics show they cause employee departure.
Artificial intelligence can work with us, not against us, to advance as a society, argues Kevin Maney. The robot economy will create jobs we can't even fathom today, and "the one thing worse for the human race than developing AI would be stopping the development of AI," he argues.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
