Metrics

Avoid overtime disputes: Do the math right the first time

03/02/2016

Overtime: One and one-half times an employee’s regular rate of pay for hours worked over 40 in a work week. Each part of this simple definition carries a lot of baggage

Technology bites back: The 10 worst productivity killers

07/06/2015

Here they are, the digital doings that are slowing you down when they’re not speeding you up—plus the analog activities that stifle progress too.

Get instant employee feedback: 3 online tools to create your own surveys

06/15/2015

Don’t just guess at which benefits your employees want or where they’d like to hold the summer picnic this year. Several great (and often free) Web-based survey tools allow HR to instantly take the pulse of their employees.

Millennials become largest generation at work

05/21/2015

Millennials (age 18 to 34) inched ahead of Generation X (35 to 50) in workforce participation in the first quarter of 2015. They now comprise 34.58% of the workforce, compared to 34.06% for Gen Xers.

Where managers expect the most job growth to happen

05/05/2015

Seventy-two percent of managers are optimistic about their career opportunities this year, up 21 percentage points from 2014. They’re ready to act on that optimism, too—88% said they’re open to new opportunities in 2015.

More job creation, more worker engagement, more … bartenders?

04/23/2015

Montana and North Dakota are locked in a dead heat for states with the most bartenders per capita.

Health roles dominate growing occupations

04/03/2015

The Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly projects the growth rate for occupations in coming years. These are the 10 jobs with the fastest anticipated growth rates between now and 2022.

North Dakota first in 2014 job creation, riding oil boom

03/30/2015

Flush with oil and gas money, North Dakota led the nation in Gallup’s Job Creation Index last year. Of course, with energy prices tanking, it may not retain the top spot for long.

The skills we believe our kids need to succeed

03/23/2015

Will my kid flourish by mastering the concrete details of math and science, or would she be better equipped in decades to come with well-honed intangibles, such as communication and teamwork? Or, more likely, will it be some combination of skills that proves most useful? That’s where respondents came down in a recent Pew Research Center survey.

Men finally regain jobs lost in Great Recession

03/19/2015

Men have recovered all of the jobs they lost in the recession and now hold more jobs than at their pre-recession peak, according to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research analysis of the December employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.