“Finders Keepers” Employers have been actively recruiting workers in a ‘finder’s focus’ as economic growth created opportunity over the last decade. Alack of skilled applicants in all sectors and a shortage of basic labor has moved companies to a new ‘keeper’ environment as they seek to retain those in their workforces. Historically low unemployment is… Read more »
Sex Talk at Work? Sacramento employers demonstrate concern in preventing potential sexual harassment on the job. News of workplace sexual harassment, assault and worse occupy conversation across society as part of the #MeToo movement and employers are on guard against workplace problems. Pacific Staffing asked top regional employers about sexual harassment and how often they… Read more »
Light Up or Leave IT Alone? Sacramento employers are caught between a rock and a hard place as marijuana is now a legal recreational drug in California, but still outlawed by the Federal government. In many ways nothing has changed for regional companies with Federal contracts, transportation or safety issues in the workplace despite… Read more »
Job demand & hiring trends for local companies in the 4th Quarter of 2017 The workplace is always changing. Employers depend on the mutually beneficial relationship based on pay for productivity. Worker productivity comes from a work ethic that Pacific Staffing has discovered may be changing in American workplaces. Since 1992, the Employment Trends has… Read more »
Job demand & hiring trends for local companies in the 3rd Quarter of 2017 Over-parenting Intrudes on Workplaces The latest quarterly survey of Sacramento regional employers has discovered that ‘helicopter parenting’ is apparently landing at work. Polling employers regularly since 1992 it appears a new trend may be emerging in workplaces involving ‘parental hovering’. HR… Read more »
Job demand & hiring trends for local companies in the 4th Quarter of 2016 & Permanent Ink: Special Report on ‘Body Art’ at Work Some didn’t answer, and over twenty percent (20%) also say that hiring applicants with body art might depend ‘on the job and the person’. When asked specifically, fifty-six percent (56%) say full… Read more »
Job demand & hiring trends for local companies in the 1st Quarter of 2016 Special Report: You’re Fired! Dishonest, unreliable jerks need not apply. When Sacramento’s top regional employers were asked, “What one thing will get you fired?” companies responded with a wide range of issues that will result in an employee’s immediate termination. As… Read more »
Job demand & hiring trends for local companies in the 4th Quarter of 2015 & Special Report: Degrees in Hiring Hiring in the Sacramento region has exploded! Seventy-six percent (76%) or just over three quarters of all companies surveyed in direct contacts by phone report open doors for applicants raising the demand a full six percentage… Read more »
Job demand & hiring trends for local Sacramento companies in the 2nd Quarter of 2015 Jobs Demand Shows Signs of Stalling Amid Ongoing Rise The Q2 jobs market may have reached a plateau among some sectors of the Sacramento economy. Like a failing tire, a portion of Sacramento’s top employers surveyed say… Read more »
Job demand & hiring trends for local Sacramento companies in the 1st Quarter of 2015 Great Expectations in ‘15 Optimism is strong for ongoing growth of the Sacramento regional economy in the New Year. In direct contacts with top Sacramento regional employers Pacific Staffing has discovered that eighty-four percent (84%) of company contacts… Read more »