The Contract Workforce

“Unemployment is expected to remain above 8 percent for the next four years.” That gloomy assessment of the U.S. economy from FedEx Chief Economist Gene Huang is echoed in any number of reports and economic predictions.
“Most predictions,” says an economic analysis by the Society for Human Resource Management, “are less optimistic now than they were when 2011 began.”

Tig Gilliam says there are plenty of opportunities right now for a professional staffing company, despite the tough job market.
Mr. Gilliam, the head of Adecco SA's North America Group, anticipates more temporary hiring in professional sectors from employers that are unwilling to take the chance on permanent employees, and believes U.S. firms have reached maximum productivity levels. Even a minor uptick in demand, he says, will lead to a hiring spurt.

 
I’m counting down the days until Christmas while checking out some interesting blog fodder across the Web.
With the holidays just around the corner, I find it appropriate to get into some of the techniques and challenges of on-boarding perhaps the most important members of the workforce this time of year: the temporary kind.
But before we get into that, there’s something a co-worker passed along that caught my eye.
Twitter, as we all know, is taking the world by storm. It seems as if nothing trendy can be said nowadays unless you can do it in 140 characters or less and use some brand of unusual Twitter jargon — like the “hashtag.”