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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

UST Now Offers Outplacement Services Exclusively to Nonprofits in Order to Reduce Unemployment Claims Liability. 2016 Compensation Data Healthcare Results Now Available. Chrysalis Coaching & Consulting and Big Sister Association Partner to Celebrate International Coaching Week. China Online Education Files for IPO.

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Ep 92 – Dissecting the Acquisition of Monster and What’s Next

Workology

Randstad is an acquisition machine having acquired a number of companies in 2016 including Twango, Careo Group from Japan, Obiettivo Lavro in Italy. Don’t forget their acquisition of RiseSmart, outplacement service and technology in 2015. Kyle talks through both Monster and Randstad’s other acquisitions.

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Are Major Layoffs More Common Since the Recession?

Intoo USA

Additionally, in June of 2017, over 300 stores filed for bankruptcy, a 31% increase over 2016. Additionally, most of these young families backpedaled during the recovery years of 2010–2016, not getting ahead of the financial curve. Find out more about Intoo’s outplacement solution. Across All Industries.

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Are Major Layoffs More Common Since the Recession?

Intoo USA

Additionally, in June of 2017, over 300 stores filed for bankruptcy, a 31% increase over 2016. Additionally, most of these young families backpedaled during the recovery years of 2010–2016, not getting ahead of the financial curve. Find out more about Intoo’s outplacement solution. Across All Industries.

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Retail Industry is Firing — And Hiring

HRExecutive

Announced job cuts for the first two months of 2017 are down 40 percent from the same period last year, the global outplacement firm notes, while the total number of new-hire announcements for January and February is at an all-time high of 162, 266 workers. Retail-industry disruptor Amazon announced plans in January to hire 100,000 workers.

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Holiday Parties: Proceed with Caution

HRExecutive

One related recent survey , from Global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., On the flip side, 11 percent of employers will not hold a holiday party, up from 4 percent in 2016. And reconsider offering alcohol to party-goers, according to experts.

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What the eclipse productivity loss buzz can teach us about work-life integration

Limeade

If you cleared a window in your schedule last week to catch a glimpse of the solar eclipse, you contributed to an almost $700 million in lost productivity, according to a calculation by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.