Employee Participation

A modest salary increase is only a fraction of the effort needed to keep employees happy. From telecommuting options to unlimited vacation days, employers are mixing traditional benefits concepts with outside-the-box offerings.

Forty-six percent of employers use virtual teams, and those with global operations are more likely to use virtual teams at 66 percent as opposed to U.S.-based operations at 28 percent, according to a survey released by the Society for Human Resource Management.

Information technology leaders as well as industry workers say onboarding programs are extremely, according to a recent survey by TEKsystems, a provider of IT staffing services.

College undergraduates and postgraduates are having a hard time finding a job. Not because theyre not qualified, but because there just arent enough jobs out there for them, according to a new study.

The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits plunged last week. But a big reason was that some automakers skipped their traditional summer shutdowns to keep up with demand, leading to fewer temporary layoffs of autoworkers.

Democrats blocked a Senate vote Wednesday on President Barack Obama's plan to extend expiring tax cuts for a year for everyone but the highest-earning Americans, as the two parties maneuvered to try embarrassing each other on one of the election year's foremost issues.

Sixty-three percent of U.S. workers are not fully engaged at the workplace and are struggling to cope with situations that fail to offer adequate support, according to the new Global Workforce Study by Towers Watson.

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