Employee Participation

U.S. employees are more optimistic when it comes to the economy, job market, and their personal employment situations as confidence hit 55.5 in March, according to the latest Randstad Employment Report.

U.S. factories stepped up hiring and production in March, the latest evidence that manufacturing is growing at a healthy pace and fueling the recovery.

Unemployment in the 17 countries that use the euro hit its highest level since the currency was introduced back in 1999, official figures showed Monday, adding to fears that the region is in recession.

Following top practices for firm performance, technology, compliance and administrative support result in the highest levels of satisfaction, not compensation, for financial advisers, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.

Almost 79,000 unemployed South Carolinians will stop receiving federally funded weekly jobless benefits by year's end, state unemployment officials said Wednesday, because the state's jobless rate is improving and a new federal law is phasing out emergency benefits.

Although the average 2012 information technology budgets grew to 10.2 percent from 8.5 percent in 2011, 57 percent of IT leaders are concerned about losing top talent, which is up by 14 percent, according to two recent surveys by staffing firm PROTECH.