The ADP employment report was released today.  On the surface, the numbers appear to be trending in the right direction, but it’s important to put them in context.  In order for the US to maintain a break-even unemployment rate given current labor participation rates, the economy needs to add roughly 90,000 jobs per month.  The [...]

   Elliott Masie’s Learning 2011 conference was held November 6-9, in Orlando, Florida. This year a record 2000+ learning professionals gathered to learn from each other – showing that even in uncertain economic times, organizations are keeping a focus on learning, training, and development. As this was my fourth Masie Learning conference, I know that [...]

In two days, we celebrate Thanksgiving. Given this, you will no doubt see a number of HR posts this week focusing on the importance of giving thanks and feedback to your employees. This is not one of those posts. Instead, I’m going to share some thoughts on a few of the unhealthy similarities between Thanksgiving [...]

   Last week Adobe announced that they are ending further development of their popular Flash plugin technology for use in mobile device browsers, noting: “HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively.  This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms. We [...]

Veteran’s Day is a time of parades and platitudes, well-spun rhetoric and stirring speeches about the value of service and sacrifice, of a nation’s debt and a people’s gratitude. Easy stuff to write, and even easier to say in front of cheering, patriotic crowds. I’d like to propose something different this Veteran’s Day – let’s [...]

US unemployment numbers were released today, and the news isn’t great. The 100,000-ish workers added in October are barely enough to keep the unemployment level stable, due to increases in the overall labor pool.  Fully-loaded unemployment, accounting for the full spectrum of unemployed and underemployed, is still tracking around 16%.  Perhaps more telling is that [...]