Sentences with phrase «percent of the work force»

Non-permanent workers such as freelancers have grown from 17 to 36 percent of the U.S. work force over the past 25 years and are expected to comprise 43 percent of the work force by 2020, according to Alex Chriss, vice president and general manager of Self - Employed Solutions at Intuit.

Two years later, those numbers haven't improved much: Facebook, for instance, is 55 percent white and 36 percent Asian, with all other minorities accounting for just 9 percent of the work force.

Fifty - three million Americans work independently (according to the Freelancers Union), nearly 34 percent of the work force.

BANGKOK — Malaysia Airlines will cut 6,000 jobs, or about 30 percent of its work force, and receive a bailout from the Malaysian government amounting to nearly $ 2 billion, according to a restructuring plan announced on Friday.

As reported by SAMPAN, the company employs workers from 38 countries, and 95 percent of its work force consists of immigrants.

He was returning with about 160 other men and women to more seniority than 60 percent of the work force He was higher than 4200 people on the seniority list which by contract gave him The right to Switch shifts, Take better jobs, Take or refuse weekend overtime as he chose if it was not 100 percent.

Ethnic minorities make up less than ten percent of the work force and fewer than one in ten board members are female.

About 880,000 New Yorkers, or 10 percent of the work force, make up to $ 8.50 an hour washing dishes and clothes, flipping and serving burgers, selling shoes and jeans, cleaning homes and offices, milking cows and picking crops and taking care of sick and elderly people in their own homes.

«We have 46 percent of our work force as women and minorities, including 25 percent in our U. S. work force,» Koestler explains.»

Chrysler will cut 13,000 jobs, or 16 percent of the work force, and close a factory in Newark, Del., he said.

A trucking company that has less than 11 percent of its work force in the city of Roanoke, where it has only one client and in 2014 generated only 2 percent of its total revenue, does not conduct «substantial» business...

Not exact matches

Other concerns include restrictions on work force mobility (cited by 21 percent of respondents in the Inc. survey) and the ability to cater to customers in other markets (cited by 8 percent).

Women, meanwhile, now make up 33 percent of the social network's work force, up from 32 percent a year ago and 31 percent in 2014.

According to the Deloitte Millennial Survey, millennials will constitute 75 percent of the global work force by 2025.

That was the Thursday before Fourth of July weekend, and sure enough, little was written about how Google's work force is made up of just 3 percent Hispanics and 2 percent African Americans — unchanged since the first report.

While Pew reports that one - third of 25 - to 29 - year - olds in the U.S. had completed at least a bachelor's degree in 2012 (a record number), a survey by Braun Research for staffing firm Adecco found that 66 percent of hiring managers do not believe college grads are ready for the work force.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

A 2016 survey by Jobvite cited that in the entire work force, 18 percent of the total changes jobs every one to three years.

The labor force participation rate, or the share of working - age Americans who are employed or at least looking for a job, was steady at 62.8 percent.

Regardless of your feelings about them, these people will account for 75 percent of the global work force by 2025.

The software company is planning to revamp its existing Redmond, Washington, campus to create enough space for a potential 17 percent expansion of the area's work force.

More than 30 percent of American workers today are part of the Millennial generation, making them the largest shareholder of the American work force, above both Gen - X and Baby Boomers.

Two years later, most companies are not faring much better: Consider that Facebook, which has been making an aggressive push to hire more women engineers and people of color, revealed last month that just 2 percent of its U.S. work force is black and only 4 percent is Hispanic.

Tech workers comprise as much as 17 percent of the Alpharetta work force, with IT workers at 15 percent.

According to the International Labor Organization, nearly 25 million people work in forced - labor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific region.

Nike's own research shows that women occupy nearly half the company's work force but just 38 percent of positions of director or higher, and 29 percent of the vice presidents, according to an April 4 internal memo obtained by The Times.

Few people say «I want to grow up and work in an office,» yet 15 percent of Americans have office / administrative jobs (the largest of 22 segments of the U.S. labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

The deal will mean about 6,000 job cuts, or about 4 percent of the combined work force of 140,000 employees.

The labor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Uber has sought to aid the kingdom's Vision 2030 plan, which includes more than doubling the number of women in the overall work force by 2030, to 30 percent.

«In 1960 only 18 percent of women with children under the age of six were in the work force; by 1995 the figure had soared to 63 percent.»

In our survey of the labor force, only 11 percent said they understand «very well» how our economic system works, and even among those who said they had thought a great deal about their responsibility to the poor only 18 percent said they understand it very well.

Meyer says the company has less than 3 percent turnover annually with its 288 - employee work force, and it offers training on all of its processes.

Beard agrees that students should understand what basic foods are, but says that with more than 60 percent of American women in the work force and a proliferation of fast - food outlets, meals from scratch and tomatoes direct from the farm are not common.

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Miner, who is running for re-election in November, said she has put off Syracuse's financial day of reckoning by cutting the city work force 10 percent, by obtaining new revenue from nonprofit institutions, and by streamlining economic development policies, among other accomplishments.

Pay has become a hot - button issue in Albany as the governor seeks a series of one - day furloughs for 100,000 state workers, after labor leaders refused to forgo a 4 percent raise for the state work force that was largely negotiated under Gov. Eliot Spitzer, or to delay a week's pay.

It should be noted that the bargaining unit that agreed with the governor represents less than 1 percent of the state work force and is a very specialized unit that has been working without a contract since 2005,» he said.

At issue is how to resolve the diminished disability benefits for New York City's uniformed work force following a change in 2009 that reduced the pension from 75 percent of a final year's salary to 50 percent.

Unemployment is at roughly 9 percent, and there are countless stories of businesses leaving because the taxes are too high — or sons and daughters forced to move out - of - state to find work.

They gave themselves a fat 32 percent raise and now rake in $ 148,500 a year — but six City Council members didn't show up for work Friday, forcing the cancellation of a key committee meeting.

In recent years the number of privately employed workers paying dues to labor organizations dropped to below 7 percent of the US work force.

«The state work force has already shared the pain of closing this budget gap with the 10 percent cuts to state agencies,» said PEF President Ken Brynien.

Administration officials decided that since the management confidential employees were denied 3 percent raises and step raises last year because of budget shortfalls, it was fair to allow the raises to go forward this year since the unionized work force are receiving them this year and got all raises last year, said Matt Anderson, a spokesman for the Division of the Budget.

Yet 80 percent of science and math majors do not go on to graduate work in their field; rather, most go into the work force.

«To better understand safety issues, we are making efforts to employ more modern investigational, molecular approaches to safety assessment — and increase our safety testing work force by about 10 percent,» says Phil Bentley, vice president and global head of preclinical safety at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in New York City.

There are other forces at work, including a series of geologic faults in the delta and the rock layers beneath, but a U.S. Department of Interior report says oil and gas canals are ultimately responsible for 30 to 59 percent of coastal land loss.

More than 1,300 drone pilots work for the Air Force, representing approximately 8 percent of all U.S. Air Force pilots, according to a recent report authored by Air Force Colonel Bradley Hoagland.

The face of the US scientist is changing: Asian Americans now make up 14 percent of the science and engineering work force, according to recent data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which can be found at www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08.

The initial numbers revealed that of the 2.6 million individuals employed in the federal sector, 5.9 percent are Asian American, indicating that the group is well represented in the overall federal work force.