Economy

The Non-Mobile Society

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Calculated Risk: Labor Mobility: Starting to Increase

This blog post on CalculatedRisk references an article from the Financial Times.  I am struck by the differences in word choices.  FT uses “picks up sharply” while CalculatedRisk states “starting to increase”.  In conversations with my recruiter friends I’ve become aware of slightly higher activity in job openings.  Some of these openings included paid relocation.  A few years ago employers stopped offering paid relocation.  These changes are not insignificant.  But the job market remains weak.

Starting to increase is a better choice of words.

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Employee Loyalty Waning as National Unemployment Rate Continues to Fall

No, we are not talking about holes in 737’s.  We are talking about MetLife’s 9th Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends.  I always credit my sources so instead of a direct link to the MetLife study I’ve linked the article where I first read about the study.  There is a link at the bottom of that article to the download page at MetLife.