Employee Participation

For many employees, starting a new job can be an intimidating experience. Not only is the position new but the corporate culture, co-workers and even area of town are unknown to employee just joining the team. An effective onboarding program helps ease the transition, which improves retention, but many organizations...

Shares of LinkedIn Corp. jumped more than 10 percent before Friday's opening bell after the online professional-networking service reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results.

Engineers expressed higher optimism in the economy during the fourth quarter of 2012 as the confidence rating hit 57.8, up by 3.4 points for the first uptick of last year.

It was little surprise when freshman Rep. Mike Coffman in 2010 voted against a bill to grant citizenship to some young illegal immigrants. After all, the Republican Marine Corps veteran had just won the seat in Congress formerly held by firebrand Rep. Tom Tancredo, who had pushed the party to...

Union leaders are rolling out a 14-city campaign to mobilize support for President Barack Obama's immigration overhaul plans.

The Republicans' solution to repaying more quickly North Carolina's $2.6 billion debt to the federal government for unemployment insurance claims continued on the fast track at the General Assembly, but it's slowing down a little.

Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, indicating companies continue to hire at a modest but steady pace.

Predictive talent planning models can improve employee engagement and retention by aligning employees career goals with the organizations business needs, according to a research bulletin from Bersin by Deloitte, titled Career Pathing: Optimizing Engagement, Learning, and Retention.