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Individual Audits Reach Highest Rate In a Decade (no, not underwriting audits)

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Surprise! IRS Audits Up 11% This Year

Read this wonderful post on how the Federal Budget deficit is getting reduced, one audit at a time.

According to the IRS, the agency audited 1,581,394 individual returns last year, up from 1,425,888 in 2009. Did the increased audits produce increased revenues? You bet. The IRS collected $57.6 billion in enforcement revenues in 2010, up from $48.90 billion in 2009. Enforcement revenues have grown dramatically from the $33.8 billion that was collected in 2001.

Expert Life Underwriter Opinion – Create Jobs…Hire Somebody

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The Yawning of a New Era | workforce.com

America’s workforce is weary. Employees of all ages report feeling fatigued, stressed, burned out or depressed, brought down by a heavier workload, layoffs and an assortment of other adverse conditions workers feel they have little or no power to control.

The hamsters are starting to fall off their wheels.

All kidding aside, this is a serious management issue.  So what’s a little fatigue.  A plane crash here, a truck crash there right?

All we do is put risk on the books.

So what’s a little higher error ratio?

Think Brand Strategy NOT Social Media Strategy

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Sanders Says – You don’t need a social media strategy

Sanders Says – Brand strategy first, social media tactics second

You don’t need a social media strategy – You need a brand strategy that leverages social media.  Don’t get off the brand strategy just because there’s a new communications channel, that’s how you lose the plot as a brand.  Technology is the tail, not the dog.

Here are two links to two blog posts by Tim Sanders.  If your company is struggling with social media these articles will help.

Scary Chart of the Day – 10/29/10

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Calculated Risk: Housing Bust impacting Manager Mobility

One of the strengths of the U.S. labor market has been the flexibility associated with labor mobility at all levels of employment – households could easily move from one region to another for better employment. The sharp decline in house prices, leaving homeowners with significant negative equity, appears to be limiting this flexibility.

Bad times for moving companies

It’s Saturday morning and I’m not sufficiently caffeinated, sitting in my office catching up on the news when I come across this chart.  So I get up and get another cup of Joe, sip and think a little more about just what this chart is telling me.

A lot.