Employee Participation

A modest salary increase is only a fraction of the effort needed to keep employees happy. From telecommuting options to unlimited vacation days, employers are mixing traditional benefits concepts with outside-the-box offerings.

Forty-six percent of employers use virtual teams, and those with global operations are more likely to use virtual teams at 66 percent as opposed to U.S.-based operations at 28 percent, according to a survey released by the Society for Human Resource Management.

Information technology leaders as well as industry workers say onboarding programs are extremely, according to a recent survey by TEKsystems, a provider of IT staffing services.

College undergraduates and postgraduates are having a hard time finding a job. Not because theyre not qualified, but because there just arent enough jobs out there for them, according to a new study.

The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits plunged last week. But a big reason was that some automakers skipped their traditional summer shutdowns to keep up with demand, leading to fewer temporary layoffs of autoworkers.

Democrats blocked a Senate vote Wednesday on President Barack Obama's plan to extend expiring tax cuts for a year for everyone but the highest-earning Americans, as the two parties maneuvered to try embarrassing each other on one of the election year's foremost issues.