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How Temporary Help Agencies Impact the Labor Market

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Temporary help agencies place nearly 3 million Americans in jobs each day -- but the temp industry's very success may embolden some managers to view all workers as impermanent, jobs scholar Vicki Smith argues ...


Temp work strains employee mental health

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Workers hired for temporary, contract, casual or fixed-term positions are at risk for increased mental health problems, according to research to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological ...


Study: Weekend workers are mostly women

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 14, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Canadian researchers have found that of the 1-in-5 Canadians working during weekends and most of those workers are women.


Microsoft's vendors, temps nearly equal regular staff numbers

Technology / Business

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's widely known Microsoft has a large contingent work force in addition to its 96,000 direct, regular employees worldwide. But the company has never publicly quantified these people, who typically work through third-party ...


Half of health workers reject swine flu shot

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- About half of Hong Kong's health workers would refuse the swine flu vaccine, new research says, a trend that experts say would likely apply worldwide. In a study that polled 2,255 Hong Kong health workers this year, ...


NY officials rescind mandatory H1N1 flu shot order (AP)

NY officials rescind mandatory H1N1 flu shot order

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- New York state health officials have suspended a ruling that would have forced health care workers across the state to get vaccinated against the swine flu by the end of November or risk losing their ...


Older workers spend less on necessities and health care

Older workers spend less on necessities and health care

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More older Americans are choosing to continue to work or are returning to the labor force. The number of workers age 65 and older is predicted to increase by more than 80 percent by 2016. In an ongoing study, ...


Nokia to lay off 170 workers worldwide

Technology / Business

created May 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it will lay off 170 workers worldwide to further cut costs as the global downturn continues to weaken demand in the mobile phone industry.


Vitamin supplements may protect against noise-induced hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Vitamin supplements can prevent hearing loss in laboratory animals, according to two new studies, bringing investigators one step closer to the development of a pill that could stave off noise-induced and perhaps even age-related ...


IT Worker Confidence a Mixed Bag

Technology / Business

created May 04, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two recruiting companies find different results when they poll IT workers about their confidence in the economy, their jobs and finances.



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