Google "Smart Hiring" Practice Leads to Positive PR
This past summer, reports a recent article in Seed magazine, search engine giant Google placed billboards in Cambridge, Massachusetts’, Harvard Yard and California’s Silicon Valley. Simply, but cryptically, the billboards read, “first 10 digit prime found in consecutive digits of e.com.”
Workplace Trends: Flex-time
A recent report on ABC World News Tonight brought to light a relatively new work place trend: flex time. The retail electronics chain Best Buy, the show reported, now allows more than 2,000 employees at its Minneapolis corporate headquarters to make their own hours and work from home when they choose.
Workplace Trends: Job Sharing
Touted as the future of the work place in the early 90s, job-sharing—when two employees split the responsibilities, tasks and hours of one full-time position—hasn’t caught on at the same speed as flex-time, but nevertheless is an option for many working people.
Outsourcing and the Small Business Outlook
Outsourcing is used to support a surprising array of industries.Though some industries are finding that outsourcing hasn’t reaped quite the rewards that were initially anticipated (IT executives said they expected outsourcing to cut costs by 50 percent; outsourcing has—on average—slashed expenses by 10 to 20 percent), outsourcing continues to be a major issue for both large corporations and small businesses.
