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Some companies have found a way to help solve the common HR dilemma of losing good employees during layoffs, then incurring recruiting costs when rebuilding the workforce in better times: They keep in touch with their former employees via online networks,...

Joy Relton has never let her blindness keep her from doing her job. She's an assistive-technology specialist at Unisys Corp., an e-business company based in Blue Bell, Pa. By participating in a Unisys employee network for disabled workers, she has...

"Vision is the ability to see what change is needed and how it will benefit people when that change is made." David Pottruck, president and co-CEO, Charles Schwab Technology is changing the business of human resources. With-in the past decade,...

Corporate privacy officers are here to stay, and their ranks will grow substantially in the next three years, according to the initial findings of an industry-commissioned survey. In the survey's "first wave" results, released in December by Privacy...

Family members accompanying employees assigned to foreign work sites always have been a major focus of international HR (IHR) programs, and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the conflict in Afghanistan have increased concerns for their safety. Anecdotal...

For the woman working in travel sales at AAA of Western and Central New York, moving from inside sales to a position as an outside sales rep seemed wise. She would be trading the certainty of an hourly rate (plus bonus) for the risk of commission-only...

A combination of the globally competitive economy, heightened security concerns and a continuing shortage of labor--especially skilled labor--will make it ever more critical for HR professionals to hire the right workers. And, like it or not, testing...

How soon will the recession end? According to some economists, the more important question is "How strong will the recovery be?" Dr. Edward E. Leamer--director of the University of California-Los Angeles Anderson School Forecasting Center and one...