Voters say that creating jobs and strengthening manufacturing are top U.S. priorities, according to a poll of focus groups conducted by a bipartisan team of prominent Republican and Democratic pollsters. By a sizeable margin, voters rated manufacturing as the industry “most important to the overall strength of the American economy,” and support a national strategy [...]
More than 8 in 10 Chief Financial Officers believe the U.S. economy will not recover until the second half of 2011, if not later, according to a survey of more than 500 CFO’s conducted by Grant Thornton International. Just 24 percent of those surveyed said they plan to hire over the next six months, with [...]
Continue reading …Employees looking for a new job because of workplace stress have plenty of company. Fifty-two percent of workers say they “have considered or made a decision about their career, including declining a promotion or leaving a job based on workplace stress,” according to the American Psychological Association. More than half of employees said they were [...]
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