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Homeward Bound
For years companies have looked to outsource jobs to cut costs, but now more U.S. employers are looking to beef up operations domestically. It's a trend known as 're-shoring.'
Out Front
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Data Bank Focus: Getting Them to Stay
Even with quit rates rising only modestly since 2007 for most industries, any quit is costly. Replacement costs can run from one-half to five times an employee's salary.
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Data Bank Focus: See Where Workers Are Saying 'See Ya'
How well does your company stack up against others in your industry when it comes to retaining talent? Benchmarking your company's annual quit rate— quits per year divided by the total number of employees and then multiplied by 100—with the annual quit rate for your industry can help you gauge how effective you...
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Data Bank Focus: A Shrinking Pool of Job Candidates
A number of statistics are pointing toward future recruitment challenges. First, the Federal Reserve Board projects that unemployment rates will continue to fall through 2015 and beyond. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show a clear downward trend in the number of unemployed persons per job opening.
