Employee Participation

The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits rose more than forecast last week after reaching a six-month low, a sign that progress in the labor market remains fitful.

The constant inflow of millennials into the workforce poses new challenges to employers hoping to find the best ways to keep their employees from moving on.

Silicon Valley startups, and the venture capitalists who fund them, have a pathological fixation on youth.

Workers at Toyota Motor Corp.s Canadian factories will vote next week on whether to become the companys first North American employees to form a union.

Sixty-three percent of CFOs told Robert Half that they were either not concerned in the least or were somewhat unconcerned about boomers leaving the workforce.

Decades of research have shown that measurements of "general cognitive ability" are consistently the best tools to predict which new employees will wind up with the highest performance evaluations or the best career paths.