After being dismissed from her job as a Midtown Manhattan securities attorney in October 2009, Christina Tretter-Herriger hitched a used horse trailer to her Dodge Ram pickup and drove 1,628 miles to Texas. Original post on bloomberg.com Comments on reddit.com
It has been widely expected over the past year or two that IBM’s India workforce was on track to exceed its U.S. workforce, if it hadn’t exceeded it already. Original post on computerworld.com Comments on reddit.com
If you care a lick about America’s work force, help push its largest employer to improve its employees’ wages Original post on salon.com Comments on reddit.com
From Yahoo! News: PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s celebrity flight director, Bobak Ferdowsi, would represent a rare breed even without the patriotic mohawk hairstyle that earned him fame as Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
Millions of workers have been disconnected from the work force. If they are not reconnected, the costs to them and to society will be grim. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Job cuts in the tech industry has become an all too common theme in the past couple of years, and the latest round of redundancy reductions is set to take place at Logitech. The peripheral maker announced plans to restructure its operations and simplify its organization to Original post on hothardware.com Comments on digg.com
President Obama, visiting a community college near Cleveland, takes a not-so-subtle swipe at Mitt Romney and the GOP for favoring tax breaks for rich. Original post on washingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Wegmans, which operates its 79 stores in New York, Pennsylvania and four other East Coast states, shows that a business can generously train its workforce and profit handsomely. Original post on theatlantic.com Comments on reddit.com
In order to boost the company’s earnings, Pepsi is looking at cutting about 4,000 jobs from its workforce. It is also eyeing the possibility of ending or reducing pension contributions. A… More