Business executives are becoming more confident about the U.S. economy as well as their own organizations, according to the first quarter AICPA Economic Outlook Survey, which surveyed chief financial officers, controllers and other certified public accountants in executive and senior management accounting roles.

When comparing March 2012 to March 2011, service-sector hiring is expected to fall by a net of 10.3 points while manufacturing-sector hiring is projected to rise by a net of 4.8 points, according to a new report from the Society for Human Resource Management that surveyed 500 service-sector companies and...

Nationwide job openings remained steady and mostly unchanged in February with only a 0.2 percent increase month-over-month and a 5.5 percent increase year-over-year, according to the March 2012 Employment Outlook by SimplyHired.com, a job search engine.

Moving forward, 94 percent of employers are committed to offering and financially supporting some type of health benefit coverage for employees, according to a new survey by Aon Hewitt, a human capital consulting firm in Chicago.

Employer health and wellness programs now reach beyond traditional programs, which typically concentrate on physical health, to include well-being programs that have elements of mental and emotional health, financial health, work-life effectiveness, and workplace environment and stress, according to a new employer survey by WorldatWork.

By the end of 2013, 93 percent of employers plan to initiate mobile work styles, up from 37 percent of employers that offer these arrangements today, according to a survey of senior IT decision-makers by Citrix, a provider of mobile work styles and cloud services.

For the second consecutive month in February, the Randstad Employee Confidence Index increased 1.5 points to 53.9, marking the highest level of employee confidence recorded since May 2011.

Attracting and retaining talent, cutting costs, investing in innovation, managing risk and economic uncertainty rank as the top concerns for CEOs of automotive companies, according to PwC's annual automotive survey.