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What Do Tech Workers Really Want?

Indeed

Employers are picking up on this trend, too, with 70% now offering wellness initiatives (up from 58% in 2008). For the sake of retention, it’s in employers’ best interest to support internal career advancement: 93% of role changes in the U.S. Diversity is important in every area of business. One easy option?

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The contingent workforce is about to skyrocket — here’s what you need to know

Eightfold

In addition, Khan said an uptick in contingent hiring could pave the way for underrepresented groups to enter the workforce, making organizations more diverse. We saw the first signs of this change after the 2008 recession when participating in the gig economy became very popular. Tell us about current retention rates.

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Employee Retention Tactics to Reduce Talent Waste, with Lee McQueen

Social Talent

The world of hybrid and remote work and interviews has revealed major flaws in the standard employee retention handbook. What leads to employee retention problems? What are the main factors that lead to retention issues? 14.10] What leads to retention issues? 30.37] Internal mobility and retention.

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Gen Z Rising: How This New Generation Will Transform the Workplace

Employment Metrix

This generation tends to be frugal, probably relating to the recession during their childhoods in 2008. A bonus feature: Besides making Gen Z employees more comfortable and increasing retention, many of these technological innovations that transform the workplace also can benefit the entire organization. Technology Trends.

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The Top Hiring Trends in Financial Services to Attract The Best Talent

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

Diversity also defines Millennials and Gen Z (which includes people born after 1997). These changing customer demographics translate into more emphasis on diversity recruiting, bilingual job candidates, and desirable positions like virtual bank teller, customer experience designer, and digital product manager.

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8 Intriguing Recruitment News Stories this Week – 9th November 2015

Social Talent

Identifying and promoting diversity will deliver real benefits for business, both financial and non-financial. At the same time, data from the ONS shows the UK unemployment rate is at its lowest level since 2008, falling to 5.4% As a result, job competition has fallen to a post-recession record low of 0.58 in August and 43.1%

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Creating Sustainable Talent Strategies for Long-Term Business Success

Social Talent

It’s about leaning in to up-skilling and mobility, improving engagement, and focusing on retention. Providing opportunity or reskilling your people raises engagement, it raises loyalty, and retention. When it comes to diversity, our workforce is pretty split and it’s similarly to Amazon. We’ve shared this out.

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