Hewlett-Packard announced Wednesday that they will cut about 27,000 jobs by the end of 2014 in order to save up to $3.5 billion, so that's obviously not great news for the economy.
Two contrasting articles about gender and jobs are circulating today. One is FINS reporter Julie Steinberg's piece, "Yes, Ladies You DO Need to Play Golf." The other is a New York Times piece about men entering fields traditionally dominated by women.
After Jack Welch likened women's employee groups to "victim's units," The Wall Street Journal's John Bussey has canvassed the female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies for their career tips for women.
Need another confirmation that the world of programming is as nerdy as you suspected? Well, today we learn tech employers want recruits to think that they'll be hired as ninjas or Jedis, like we're all living in Kill Bill or Star Wars or something.
A group of women recently got very angry when Jack Welch, former "Master and Commander of General Electric," addressed them with regard to getting ahead in their careers at a recent speaking engagement.
Inspired by a recent Wall Street Journal piece titled "Nine Rules Women Must Follow to Get Ahead," we compiled a list of eight other articles that journalists should stop writing. Wednesday, The Journal responded with a new post.
The National Magazine Award finalists have been announced, and women are not represented at all in reporting, feature writing, profile writing, essays and criticism, columns and commentary, or feature photography.
The AP reported on the most disconcerting trend in human resources: job applicants being asked to hand over their Facebook passwords. To see what employers might find, I gave a career coach the keys to my Facebook and Twitter accounts. (And, yes, I changed the passwords right afterward.)
In an economic indicator many of us can use, a report says more people see the employment market as strong enough to quit their crappy, go-nowhere jobs than have in years.
Take note: The hot new trend is puttering. Yes, puttering. To "putter" is to 1) move or act aimlessly or idly, 2) to work at random, or tinker. And who has time for that in this 24-hour-news-cycle life?
The Wall Street Journal found some people who've gone 20 or more years without taking one sick day at work. They're not superhuman, they just really, really love their jobs.
In a bit of conflicting economic news, national jobless claims climbed unexpectedly last week even as positive growth reports came from two economic sectors.
A new round of data from the federal government on Wednesday showed jobless claims went up a little bit for the week, with 2,000 more people applying for unemployment for a seasonally adjusted 393,000 while consumer spending rose 0.1 percent in October, which was less than the 0.7 percent gain in September.
Nepotism and wealth go together according to a study published in the Journal of Labor Economics.
The latest ruling forced a company to hire back employees it had fired
Unemployment stubbornly remains at 9.1 percent
President espouses hope, admonishes Congress in address to veterans
Researchers find a reason men spend their time at work prowling around the office
President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak from the White House Rose Garden
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