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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With factors like technology, outsourcing and consolidation working against job creation, any job market rebound we see in the near future will be relatively small,
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It's accelerating right now. I don't think we're near the end of it,
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The heavy year-end downsizing does not necessarily indicate a sudden weakening of the economy, ... The fact is, job cutting has become a permanent part of the corporate cost-management mix, as demonstrated by the fact that a strong financial sector still found nearly 100,000 jobs to eliminate.
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The good news for displaced workers as well as for the economy is that the jobs that are being affected the most by downsizing are still in demand, ... This is why the unemployment rate has not increased at nearly the same rate as job cuts.
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The biggest factor pushing tech job cuts to a five-quarter high was a surge in corporate combinations in the telecom sector, which resulted in over 3,000 job cuts in February.
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The best way to get a summer job is to start now, if you haven't started already.
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The best security people can't just deal with threats; they have to anticipate them, too.
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The average search time for executives earning over $100,000 is about a month longer than other wage earners in the same community.
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The field is continually changing, and some companies feel like they're constantly under siege. It takes a special kind of individual just to walk into that, much less take control of it.
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The fallout from these mergers is often measured in jobs as the combined entity cuts overlapping positions and sheds workers in an effort to maintain profit margins.
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The fallout from all of this will likely continue on in December and January with more dot.com closures and job cut announcements,
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The cost may end up being much higher since it will now be possible to watch entire games on the Internet.
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If job cuts in the auto industry continue and we start to see consistently high job-cut numbers from the top three job cutters in July, it should set off some relatively loud alarm bells about the state of the job market and economy.
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not a good indication of stronger job creation to come.