John Challenger
John Challenger
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, with headquarters located in Chicago, Illinois, is the oldest executive outplacement firm in the US. It has offices throughout North America...
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The decline in job cuts is certainly welcome news, but it is difficult to get too excited about a year in which more than 1.2 million people fell victim to downsizing, ... That is more than double the 553,044 job cuts averaged annually during the six-year period before the recession.
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When there aren't a lot of alternative routes to take, it means more late meetings, people miss meetings altogether, more stress from people when they get in - just less ability to be productive,
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It's a sign of company maturation as it begins to focus on its core areas.
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It's going to be hard to replace packages that were about $67 an hour when you added in pensions and health-care benefits.
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They might even include personal items you can put on the desk.
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You don't see them this lucrative very often. This is kind of off the charts.
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There really was no way to predict where the successful strands would come in the e-world. If you take a company like Yahoo, they got there early, with a lot of money, and were able to go out and hire the very best people.
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It's a good sign in the face of all these tech cuts, ... I'll bet they can really access great talent right now. To bring that many people into the company when pickings are really good, it should be a real lift for the company.
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For employees in the middle of a merger-acquisition right now, it is likely that at least one in 10 will lose their jobs because of the combination.
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Following the stock price plummet, many companies are running on fumes when it comes to cash.
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It's through those relationships that people make the best moves. Build your social capital.
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It's novel enough that some problems haven't manifested themselves yet. Inevitably, it creates problems. It does create tensions in the workplace.
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It's taken the company losing $10 billion for the jam to begin to break.
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It just means the office is fully utilized.