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Uber releases report categorizing sexual assault claims (Bloomberg)

November 13, 2018

Uber yesterday released a new report, created in partnership with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and the Urban Institute, that outlines how it will categorize incidents of sexual harassment, misconduct and assault. Bloomberg reported the taxonomy will help the human-cloud, ride-sharing...


Economists raise forecast for US job growth, outlook on unemployment rate mostly unchanged

November 13, 2018

Economists raised their estimates for job gains this year and in 2019 but kept their outlook for the unemployment rate mostly unchanged, according to the fourth-quarter Survey of Professional Forecasters released today by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

The economists expect the unemployment...


Upwork lists fastest-growing skills for Q3; Dropbox API tops list

November 13, 2018

The top 10 skills on online staffing provider Upwork’s (NASD: UPWK) third-quarter list of the 20 fastest-growing skills in the US freelance job market are new to the index, and 75% of all the skills made the index for the first time.

Skills related to biotech, software development and mixed reality experienced...


North American Staffing 100 list nominations close at end of month

November 13, 2018

The deadline to submit nominations for the North American Staffing 100 list of movers and shakers in the staffing industry for 2019 is coming up at the end of this month.

The list will appear in the January/February issue of Staffing Industry Review magazine and comprises 100 men and women who have made...


Brightfield Strategies names new top exec

November 12, 2018

Brightfield Strategies, a human capital strategies consultancy and data services provider, named Jesse Levin as CEO.

Levin joins Brightfield Strategies from CEB, where he ran strategy, corporate development, new ventures and investments, and built businesses that brought data...


New CEO for ettain group

November 12, 2018

IT staffing provider ettain group named Trent Beekman as its new CEO. He replaces Jeff Harris, former CEO and ettain group co-founder, who became chairman.

Beekman most recently led Modis North America’s retail temporary staffing and permanent placement business. Modis is an IT and engineering...


US hiring growth levels out: LinkedIn

November 12, 2018

US hiring growth has leveled out since the late summer, according to LinkedIn’s November Workforce Report. However, time will tell whether this is a temporary breather or a more sustained pause. 

Gross hiring in the US rose 3.8% year over year in September; seasonally adjusted national...


EEOC secures $505 million for workplace discrimination victims

November 12, 2018

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission secured approximately $505 million and other relief for more than 67,860 victims of discrimination in the workplace in fiscal year 2018, the department announced. The EEOC’s legal staff resolved 141 merit lawsuits, filed 199 more in the fiscal year and...


Should talent development programs include freelancers? (Fast Company)

November 12, 2018

While it may seem counterintuitive to invest training resources in people who are not employees, the lines between W2 workers and 1099 workers can be blurry sometimes, Fast Company reported. Contract workers increasingly are integrated into teams, and it may make sense for firms to invest in developing...


ZipRecruiter co-founder discusses launch of firm (Los Angeles Times)

November 12, 2018

Ian Siegel, chief executive of Santa Monica, Calif.-based ZipRecruiter, told the Los Angeles Times that he pulled together three friends in 2010 — two engineers and one designer — and the four worked at his kitchen table at night and on weekends, to build the first version of ZipRecruiter. And the...