Things are changing in corporate America and they are changing fast.   There are things in the works many of us never would have thought possible a mere 10 years back.  Get this PersonnelToday.com article.  It covers IBM’s plans to cut its staff drastically over the next several years.
Please keep in mind that IBM is no corporate fly-by-night.  I worked there from 1984 to 1994 and until 1993 they had NEVER laid any off.  They had kept their full employment policy intact since 1911.  The company truly believed it owed …

My recent articles have focused on what CEOs and the leaders of the world are not getting or doing right.  I was called out on the fact that given the present state of (my) unemployment and the malaise that has resulted from market losses, financial instability and government debt, my tone and perspective has been less than inspiring.  I say, The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ~Warren Bennis
With that said, I did ponder what it is that has me on the “let’s call them out” soapbox?  …

A recent Global Economy edition of a New York Times article indicated “After losing eight million jobs since the recession began in December 2007, payrolls finally surged in March, the Labor Department reported on Friday. Employers added 162,000 nonfarm jobs last month. Nationwide, the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent.”  Wow, that’s a “surge”?
It goes on to say, “The economy needs to add more than 100,000 jobs a month just to absorb new entrants into the labor market, let alone provide a livelihood for the 15 million Americans already …

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”~ John D. Rockefeller
A credo which appears to be working for “nearly 2,000 House of Representatives staffers [who] pulled down six-figure salaries in 2009, including 43 staffers who earned the maximum $172,500 — or more than three times the median U.S. household income.”  (See the details by clicking here for the www.politico.com story.)

Thus, one’s response to the President’s call to public service would not only be admirable but which can come with financial gain as well.  Not a …

Interestingly, with all the publicity about the Healthcare bill, the President has (quietly) retreated on Education Reform.  A recent Wall Street Journal OpEd (03/18/10,p A17), stated that Mr. Obama would judge schools not by whether they were meeting reading and math standards, but primarily by a more amorphous standard: whether they are producing “college-ready and career-ready students”.
The irony of this retreat is instead of the “No Child Left Behind” goal of students reaching grade level performance, the intent is to make them able to enter the job market.   That begs the …

Jobsinthemoney.com, A Dice Company, ran an article discussing the results of a survey of 458 accountants. They found that 23% of the respondants are planning jump employers as soon as the economy gets better. Accountants have a high level of employee loyalty as a profession, but the survey reveals that despite that professional loyalty we may have a blip in the other direction.

Check out the jobsinthemoney.com Accountant Job Survey article and share your thoughts with me. I’d like to see what you accountant types think.
Hope this helps!