Special Report on Contingent Staffing: Contingency Plan | workforce.com
Staffing company officials say the pace of contingent job growth suggests a shift toward more use of temporary labor at the expense of permanent jobs. Companies had to fire thousands of workers during this downturn and are leery of ramping up permanent employment too quickly. They can more easily downsize again if they hire mainly temporary employees.
Official Google Reader Blog: A welcome and a look back
These charts should be extremely scary especially to folks in the newspaper and media businesses. If you wanted some hard evidence on consumer preferences for news outlets shifting to the Internet, here you go. The top chart is the number of people who use Google Reader at least once a week. The bottom chart is the number of items read on Google Reader.
Personally, we still buy a daily newspaper.
Lost Decade for American Income – WSJ.com
For your Scary Charts check out the article link below.
Or see what Yves Smith is writing about real estate.
The New Kindle: Smaller, Faster, Cheaper
OK. Now I want one.
Not Here Yet
Scary Charts have historically been focused on the US economy but I couldn’t resist posting this chart.
Have a nice meeting with your CTO.
The Stuxnet Sting – Microsoft Malware Protection Center – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
Saturday mornings are a great time to catch up on the news. I regularly follow nearly 100 RSS feeds through my reader. The number and content type change periodically as my personal and business interests evolve (or when I forget my Adderall). When I came across this article I was surprised not about the content but more so about the fact that my computer security RSS feed stopped working.
I hate that when that happens.
Free Management Consulting Tip of the Day
Ask your tech guys if your remotes can infect the corporate systems using this sneaker net USB memory stick method.
I don’t know is an unacceptable answer.
Stuxnet spyware targets industrial facilities, via USB memory stick – CSMonitor.com
“We have not seen anything like this before aimed directly at the industrial control system environment,” says Walt Boyes, a control systems security expert and editor in chief of Control magazine. “It’s a clear-cut case of industrial espionage. We don’t know its ultimate aim yet.” But, he says, the attack is aimed specifically at the company that sells the lion’s share of industrial automation software to the electric power sector in North America and Western Europe. “That’s really scary,” Mr. Boyes adds.
I am still holding out for lower prices on my Ebook reader of choice. Besides I like dead tree versions of books.
Amazon: Kindle Books Now Outselling Hardcovers
E-books have hit a significant milestone. In each of the last three months, Amazon reports that sales of books for Kindle have outpaced the sale of hardcover books, and that growth is only accelerating.
In a statement, Amazon says that, “over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books.”
Worst Home Sales Numbers Ever « naked capitalism
If you are not a regular reader of Yves Smith, you should be.
On Turning a Mountain Into a Molehill | Credit Writedowns
Readers of my Scary Charts posts will note that sometimes you’ll find a chart with a link to the original article while other times you’ll find just the link.
If all you see is a link, I encourage you to read the original article.
You gotta read this one.
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