Report says billions in gig economy taxes going unreported

A study being delivered to Congress says billions of dollars in taxable income may be going unreported each year because the IRS has been so slow to adapt to the peer-to-peer economy, Bloomberg reported. More than 2.5 million Americans earned income via on-demand platforms like Airbnb Inc., Etsy Inc....

ASA staffing index still above 95

The American Staffing Association’s index measuring employment in the US staffing industry remained relatively unchanged at a reading of 95.94 for the week of May 9 to May 15. Temporary and contract staffing employment edged up 0.01% from the prior week. However, the index was 1.12% lower than the...

Stress levels among IT workers remain low, TEKsystems finds

While increasing slightly from 2015, fewer than one in five IT professionals consider the work they are currently doing to be the most stressful of their career, according to TEKsystems’ annual IT stress and pride survey.

“The research shows the last two years have been a time of lower stress levels...

Wage growth is the question — Staffing quote of the week

“Wages have been the puzzling part of the story,” CNN quotes San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams as saying. “Wage growth has not picked up.” Full employment typically brings wage growth of 3% to 3.5%, but wages are now growing by only 2.5%.

Does temp slowdown mean economic woes ahead?

The Wall Street Journal reported the temporary employment sector lost 27,400 jobs since December, reversing a trend from the preceding five years when the category outpaced overall employment. “That suggests the sector, which did add jobs in April, bears careful watching, especially because the slowdown...

Contract watch: Oracle picks Geometric Results for MSP

Geometric Results Inc. signed a five-year deal to provide MSP services to business software firm Oracle to help manage nonemployee resources. This is one deal among several contracts recently announced by firms in the staffing space.

The Oracle and Geometric Results partnership began in February and initially...

IT skills shortage hinders execs, Harvey Nash survey finds

CIOs remain hindered by the greatest technology skills shortage since the Great Recession almost a decade ago, according to the 2016 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey. Almost two-thirds of global CIOs surveyed, 65%, said they believe a lack of talent will prevent their organization from keeping up with the...

Hacked LinkedIn accounts advertised for sale

A hacker is attempting to sell 117 million LinkedIn accounts that were first sourced from a 2012 breach that originally estimated 6.5 million user passwords were compromised, the Los Angeles Times reports.

LinkedIn is now invalidating some passwords.

The hacker, nicknamed Peace, is attempting to sell the...

Ciber names new chairman

IT solutions and staffing provider Ciber Inc. (NYSE: CBR) elected one of its directors, Mark Floyd, to the position of chairman effective immediately.

Floyd replaces Bobby G. Stevenson, Ciber co-founder and former chairman, who will remain a member of the company`s board of directors.

“It’s a privilege...

Union deal with NY Uber drivers doesn’t impress everyone

NBC News reports not everyone in the US labor movement is cheering the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ agreement reached earlier this month to represent New York Uber drivers. The deal falls short of actual union representation, and it has revealed sharp divisions among...