For employees in the middle of a merger-acquisition right now, it is likely that at least one in 10 will lose their jobs because of the combination.
Higher health care and energy costs for employers and employees are definitely taking a toll. Companies are being forced to enact more cost-containment measures to protect profits,
I think they re going to have to offer a stipend to help their employees with the costs so much for gas. They are going to have to encourage use of mass transportation or look for workers that are closer in.
Those are two areas of the economy that should be perking up right now if we were in a recovery mode, ... Normally, businesses hire temp workers and work their employees longer -- this drop is of real concern and raises the specter of a double-dip recession.
The honeymoon is over. Now (Internet companies) are moving into the next phase of the relationship, with the investment community on one side and the employees on the other.
Companies are essentially asking employees to do two jobs. Employees can feel like you're piling it on.
As people move around in their careers, they look for new opportunities where they can manage people. Sometimes building more structure into a company, like Microsoft has, can give employees more room to grow.
I think companies will spend billions of dollars over the next several years building their e-commerce structures, and these dot.com employees will be leaders in helping them do that,
Even if raises and bonuses are below what they were four or five years ago...rewarding employees who have brought the company through tough times is accepted by more and more companies,
Employees may have more control over their employment future than they think,
The normal mode of merging is you buy a company and condense the headquarters and the duplicative operations, ... Now, most companies are expanding so rapidly that they need to keep the other company's employees to meet the needs of that expansion.