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10/27/09 11:00 AM
Matrix
organizations, that term should be an oxymoron. In
today’s business environment where speed of
implementation can mean the difference between a
consumer becoming a customer organization have to
find ways to get middle managers empowered to make
decisions without the requirement of developing and
redoing Power Point decks and having back to back
to back meetings. Read
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06/28/09 06:56 AM
There are now more
than five unemployed workers for every job opening
in the United States.
The unemployment
rate has already reached 9.4 percent, and most
analysts now expect it to hit 10 percent or higher.
Economists are currently spreading the word that
the recession may end sometime this year, but the
unemployment rate will continue to climb. That’s
not a recovery. There were roughly seven million
people officially counted as unemployed in November
2007, a month before the recession began. Now there
are about 14 million. If you add to these
unemployed individuals those who are working part
time but would like to work full time, and those
who want jobs but have become discouraged and
stopped looking, you get an underutilization rate
that is truly alarming. “By May 2009,” according to
the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern
University in Boston, “the total number of
underutilized workers had increased dramatically
from 15.63 million to 29.37 million — a rise of
13.7 million, or 88 percent. Nearly 30 million
working-age individuals were underutilized in May
2009, the largest number in our nation’s history.
The overall labor underutilization rate in May 2009
had risen to 18.2 percent, its highest value in 26
years.” So where are the jobs? Read
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