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 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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With fewer job cuts last month and virtually no let-up of demand for skilled workers across all industries, one would expect far more wage pressure than has been seen,
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Companies, through their downsizing, continue to take the steam out of the wage inflation engine by cutting people when the pressure gets too high,
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Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.
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It is far smarter to maximize productivity by paying overtime wages rather than hiring new workers, who will be slow until they become familiar with the new job.
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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 security people can't just deal with threats; they have to anticipate them, too.
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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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