Sentences with phrase «workers than jobs»

For the past few years, there have been many times more unemployed workers than jobs advertised.

The labor had been painful, and there'd always been more workers than jobs, so after deciding to return to school, this time at Howard, he'd chosen computer science.

Not exact matches

It can mask weakness in the market if there are large numbers of discouraged workers, as in the U.S. which now has a lower jobless rate than Canada despite a poor job creation record.

When you consider that more than half of workers are willing to leave their current jobs for companies that show their appreciation to employees, adopting a culture of gratitude becomes your most valuable retention strategy.

While a lower unemployment rate is certainly better than a higher one, the rate doesn't capture workers who've quit looking for a job, part - time workers who wish to work full - time, or workers who've experienced a significant wage reduction in a new job after they lost their old one.

But even providing good jobs for all these potential workers wouldn't solve the labour market's problems, because the workforce is shrinking: the number of millennials poised to enter the labour pool is lower than the number of baby boomers set to retire.

One, the quits rate fell during the 2007 - 09 recession and has been slower to recover than other labor market indicators because workers lacked confidence to leave their jobs for greener pastures.

An advocate for both small - business owners and workers, Perry oversees efforts that have included offering more than $ 600 million in financing and technical assistance programs to promote business growth and job creation in economically depressed areas of L.A.

When former UPS workers Keith Byrd and Travis Burt founded Transportation Impact in 2008, they were using skills learned in their past jobs in more than one way.

The OECD has estimated that 44 percent of American workers holding less than a high school degree work in jobs made up of «highly - automatable» tasks, while just 1 percent of Americans holding a bachelor's degree or higher hold such jobs.

All SMBs can do now is focus on providing a better service quality than the worker these on - demand companies staff jobs to.

With the labor market tighter than it has been in decades, workers who've been yearning to change jobs finally have their moment.

The findings were the same: Employees with erratic bosses were more prone to stress, job dissatisfaction and emotional exhaustion than workers who received poor treatments all the time.

More than half of employers are willing to negotiate initial job offers for entry - level workers, the survey found.

Powell in statements throughout the year, culminating with his recent Senate confirmation hearing, has been clear he sees little risk of inflation that would prompt the Fed to raise rates faster than expected, and takes weak wage growth as a sign that sidelined workers remain to be drawn into jobs.

Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it has historically provided good paying jobs for middle - skill workers, or those folks who have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.

It surveyed more than 10,500 workers who had changed jobs and found that 59 percent of respondents said they'd moved to pursue better opportunities and a stronger career path.

According to a new study by Hired.com, a business that matches tech workers with jobs, women are still both asking for and receiving smaller salaries than men.

Thanks in large part to that same mobile technology, workers with marketable skills have more freedom than ever before to strike their own balance between the demands of their job and the rest of their lives.

Then there's the fact that the State of Iowa and city of Davenport are planning to incentivize Kraft Heinz to the tune of approximately $ 32,000 per worker over the next 15 years to locate the new factory there — despite the fact that there is a net job LOSS, not gain, of more than 800 workers.

«The disappearance of the good - paying jobs of assembly - line workers is likely occurring faster than the addition of new jobs developing artificial intelligence and robotics.

Even if one worker loses a job because of a robot, that's better than 40 workers losing their jobs if a warehouse gets closed, she explained.

That's better than the 74.9 percent of prime - age workers who had jobs at the low point of the economic downturn, in September and October 2011, or the 74.8 percent from November 2010.

They had job sharing; rather than having German industry just slash and burn and cut all their workers the way that happened in the United States, what (the German government) did was have those workers work part - time and subsidize their wages.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

Fewer than a third of American workers are giving it their all on the job.

Rather than the prospective employee adapting their qualifications, employers must recruit workers and make their job more appealing.

The dirtiest, most physically demanding, and most dangerous of these jobs — in fields such as construction, landscaping, and building maintenance, for example — are overwhelmingly filled by immigrants, who now account for more than half of all low - skilled workers in the U.S..

Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

Critics of the program say that large companies abuse H - 1B visas, hiring foreign workers who command lower salaries than Americans would doing the same job.

On Feb. 1, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a controversial right - to - work law prohibiting workers in union shops from being forced to pay union dues — less than 48 hours before Electro - Motive announced the closure of the London plant, its jobs expected to move to the Hoosier state.

The majority of H - 1B workers are in technology fields, and the tech sector says it needs more workers than the program currently provides because there aren't enough skilled Americans to fill those jobs.

Two - thirds of employees with access to free food say they're very happy at their current jobs, and workers who have strong relationships with their colleagues feel 50 percent more satisfied than those who don't.

Among the more than 1,000 U.S. workers surveyed, 79 percent feel there is a skills shortage in the workplace due to a changing job market.

The U.S. has more available trucking jobs than qualified drivers, as older workers retire.

But consider: if you're really interested in social justice, you might well insist that Canadian CEOs continue outsourcing to foreign countries, where workers surely need the jobs (on average) much more than (most) Canadians do.

The most recent ADP payroll report, for instance, saw businesses with fewer than 50 employees add 84,000 workers in June, or 45 percent of the 188,000 total private - sector jobs added in the month.

But the survey also points to a clear reason: Of the workers who want to leave their jobs within the next two years, more than 70 % cite a lack of leadership development.

Research by the Economic Policy Institute suggests that there may be less of a shortage of STEM workers than assumed by the bill's proponents, and loopholes in the bill will allow unscrupulous companies to use H - 1B visas to fill jobs with cheaper foreign workers when U.S. workers would do.

«All of the tasks on Airtasker are proactive buy - in — rather than the jobs getting pushed, the jobs just exist and the workers can jump on.»

From 2000 on, less than a third of workers stayed in a job for more than four years (during the 1990s, two - thirds did).

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

«If workers spend time discussing the outcome of last night's game rather than devoting this time to job - related activities, then these workers will be less productive in terms of output produced per unit of time,» write Coates and Humphreys.

First, Trump's focus in dealing with the corporate world is preserving American jobs, while antitrust policy is more about the consumer than the worker (although some argue that workers benefit from aggressive antitrust enforcement because mergers seek corporate streamlining, leading to fewer jobs).

When the Executives and Managers job categories are combined, African American workers are less than 1 percent of this group at these select leading Silicon Valley firms, and Hispanic workers are 1.6 percent.

More than a third of workers think they can do a better job than their boss.

«On our reckoning, since NAFTA's enactment, fewer than 5 % of U.S. workers who have lost jobs from sizable layoffs (such as when large plants close down) can be attributed to rising imports from Mexico,» wrote its authors, PIIE senior fellow Gary Clyde Hufbauer and research analyst Cathleen Cimino - Isaacs.

And where better to look than a place where workers are casting off their chains, running their factories by direct democracy and (according to the workers) doing a better job of it than their former bosses?

Although some fields have more irritating workers than others (professionals in the healthcare and insurance industries report having the highest number of annoying coworkers), some 36 % of people have left a job that they liked because they didn't get along with their coworkers.

Companies in the U.S. added more than 200,000 workers for a fifth straight month in April, signaling the job market remains strong, according to data released Wednesday from the ADP Research Institute in Roseland, New Jersey.Key Takeaways