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HR, Training and the ‘Gig’ Economy

HRExecutive

“Understandably, companies are focused on bottom line growth and results,” said Emily He, Chief Marketing Officer at Saba. a labor market analytics firm, grew to 32 million from just over 20 million between 2001 and 2014, rising to almost 18 percent of all jobs. Houseman, a labor economist at the W.

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Connecting the Dots in Employee Engagement

Strategic HCM

Defining Engagement A agree with David Zinger that there’s no need for a common definition of employee engagement – a point I also made at my presentation along with David Macleod. The traditional psychological contract between employers and employees in which lifelong employment was guaranteed has ended.