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The labor market may have cooled, but certain skills are in short supply. How training your contingent staff could close that gap.
The labor market may have cooled, but certain skills are in short supply. How training your contingent staff could close that gap.
A majority of workers globally, 70%, are already using generative AI at work, but only 7% expect it to make their jobs obsolete, according to the Global Workforce of the Future Report 2023 by The Adecco Group.
But even as generative AI becomes more prevalent, access to training is unequal, it noted.
Just 46% of workers are […]
Enterprise buyers taking a closer look at nearshoring, whose benefits include access to talent in close time zones and lower cost.
The past few years have been transformative for the staffing industry. Technology has delivered changes in speed, efficiency and visibility. Transformation has been especially evident among firms on Staffing Industry Analysts’ 2023 Fastest-Growing US Staffing Firms list.
“We’ve taken processes that used to eat up time and streamlined them with automation, from job matching to candidate […]
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Nearly half of workers, 46%, admitted to spending up to four hours a day during working hours on social media for personal use, according to survey results announced by Monster. This is despite 57% saying social media use in the workplace is unprofessional.
The survey also found that 62% of workers say their coworkers don’t follow […]
Diversity-owned staffing firms remain an important part of the workforce solutions ecosystem with minority and women business owners serving in all parts of the industry, bringing their unique talents and outlooks to move staffing forward.
Diversity-owned staffing firms also bring their own advantages to the table. “It gives clients or customers a different network. You’re likely […]
Despite a focus on DE&I, 24% of tech professionals say they experienced racial discrimination in 2022, up from 18% in the previous year, according to data from Dice, a job board for technology workers and division of DHI Group Inc.
Meanwhile, 26% of tech professionals said they experienced gender discrimination in 2022, up from 21% in […]
A four-year degree can be a valuable credential in hiring, but it’s not the only way to assess talent, according to a report by Bain and Co., OneTen and Grads of Life. A skills-first hiring approach can mitigate the barrier and make the process fairer for all job applicants.
Switching to skills-first hiring also helps open […]