This week winning Workplaces added some new research summaries to our website which speak to how investing in your workplace can improve your competitiveness and bottom line. One of these, a study released last month by the leading online employment platform oDesk, traces the steady growth in contractors used by companies – both because they [...]
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Last week I was combing CNN.com on my lunch break. When I first came across author Max Barry’s article "Why I fled the office cubicle," I thought it was going to just be about how this 20th century feature of workplace culture and design can hinder employee engagement and ideation from the bottom up. It [...]
I was stunned to read The Huffington Post‘s headline last week that "Great Companies Don’t Require Good Management." The site was referencing a May 2010 interview with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, picked up by Bloomberg on February 17, 2011, in which the Berkshire Hathaway CEO said he weighed companies’ pricing power more heavily than their [...]
Now that it’s December, it’s relatively easy to get a sense of how many companies of all sizes plan to add to their headcount in 2011. Estimates range from 32% to 47% or more. Harder to gauge is how many small firms plan to hire in 2011. (Is it a coincidence that it’s historically been harder to find [...]
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