During the hiring process, Iowa employers should be aware that several municipalities in the state have passed “ban the box” ordinances prohibiting employers from asking prospective employees about certain criminal convictions before making a conditional offer of employment. Additionally,…
Businesses Unprepared for Cyberattacks Despite Steady Concern
The latest Travelers Risk Index finds that business executives are most concerned about medical cost inflation (60%), broad economic uncertainty (59%), and cyber risks (58%). Notably, this is the ninth consecutive year that cyber risks were among the top issues business leaders were concerned…
Kansas City Fed: Manufacturing Activity Dropped
Manufacturing activity in the Plains states declined somewhat in September, and expectations for future activity stayed mostly flat. District firms’ finished product prices picked up slightly this month even as growth in raw materials prices slowed slightly. However, firms expect raw materials…
2023 Health Care Executives Workforce Survey Highlights Surge in Demand for Workforce Marketplace Platforms
Nine in 10 (98%) health care executives are either currently using or considering at least one alternative staffing model, according to a survey of 130 health care executives by ShiftMed, a provider of health care workforce solutions. These models include on-demand workforce management…
Freelancers Surge as Marketers Face Layoffs, Reject Office Return
About half of marketing leaders (54%) have more freelancers on their team this year compared with previous years, according to a survey of 502 U.S. marketing leaders and 1,009 U.S. marketing professionals by Fiverr International Ltd. On average, 45% of marketing leaders’ teams are made up of…
The Latest From Your Colleagues on ASA Central
ASA Central—the dynamic online community just for staffing professionals—is home to more than 27,000 staffing professional profiles and countless ongoing industry conversations. This week, take a look at your colleagues’ discussions and some of the blogs they’ve posted on ASA Central: Fun networking events at Staffing World 2023 Stipends for travel nurses Top sources for…
New Forms I-9 Become Mandatory on Nov. 1
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Aug. 1 published a new version of Forms I-9. Since Aug. 1, USCIS has permitted employers to continue using the prior version of Forms I-9. Beginning Nov. 1, employers must…
CFOs: Interest Rates Dampen 2023 Spending; Outlook for 2024 Brighter
Financial decision-makers ranked monetary policy as their top business concern, followed by labor quality and availability, inflation, and weak demand, according to the third-quarter results of the CFO Survey, a collaboration of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the U.S. Federal…
Majority of Civil Contractors Expect Project Backlog Increase or Holding Steady as Infrastructure Funding Kicks in
About three-fourths (78%) of civil and infrastructure construction firms expect their project backlog to increase or remain the same over the next year as new federal infrastructure funding ramps up, according to a survey of nearly 500 general and specialty contractors by the Associated General…
Employers Plan More Modest Compensation Increases in 2024
Employers in the U.S. plan to raise their compensation budgets by 3.5% for merit increases in 2024 and 3.9% for their total salary increase budgets for nonunionized employees, according to a survey of more than 900 U.S. organizations by financial services company Mercer. This compares with actual…
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