Given the poor global economic predictions, weak consumer demand, and continuing corporate uncertainty continue to impact outsourcing demand and consulting growth, according to the KPMG 4Q11 Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey, which interviewed KPMG field advisers and global business and IT service providers.

According to a survey conducted by staffing firm OfficeTeam, the top factors to job satisfaction are a healthy work-life balance at 28 percent and opportunities to learn and grow at 27 percent.

As employers continue to look for ways to cut health care costs and improve consumerism among the work force, consumer-directed health plans, and health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts, are expected to remain strong in 2012.

More than 50,000 people throughout the country are participating in a Change.org campaign to encourage Sallie Mae to stop charging jobless borrowers a $50 fee for forbearance on their student loans.

Obviously, theres some serious issues with our health care system and even more question as how to fix it. Accountable care organizations aim to directly address the problems plaguing health care, including cost, quality and satisfaction. Theyre also an integral component to health care reform. But are they the way...

U.S. workers are stressed about their personal financial situations, which is their work performance and retirement savings plans, according to a new Society for Human Resource Management survey .

Thirty-eight percent of executives are more willing to negotiate salary with top candidates than they were just one year ago, according to a new survey by Robert Half, a specialized staffing firm headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif.

Technology professionals are receiving their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from Dice, the career site for technology and engineering professionals.