Sacramento Employment Trends: Job Demand and Hiring in Q2 2019

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“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 »

Sacramento Quarterly Employment Trends – Hiring Trends in 2019 Q1

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‘Speed Bump?’   Employers are downshifting in the hiring race as 2019 begins. One regional company is reducing workforce by more than fifty percent (50%) as tariff related contract losses impact Sacramento area employment. In direct contacts with regional employers between November 19th and December 17th, Pacific Staffing discovered fifty-six percent (56%) of companies are… Read more »

Sacramento Quarterly Employment Trends – Q4 2018

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Job demand & hiring trends for local companies in the 4th Quarter of 2018 Special: ‘In’ or ‘Out’ -sourcing? Sacramento employers have slowed hiring with shortages of skills and applicants. However, they continue to seek expansion of workforces in the final Quarter of 2018. Down from sixty-six percent (66%) hiring in the previous three months, Pacific… Read more »

Sacramento Quarterly Employment Trends – Q3 2018

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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 »

Pacific Staffing Quarterly Employment Trends – Q2 2018

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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 »

Sacramento Quarterly Employment Trends – Q4 2017

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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 »

Sacramento Employment Trends – Q3 2017

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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 »

Sacramento Quarterly Employment Trends – 1st Quarter of 2017

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New Year, New Challenges, New Fears in First Quarter   The first three months of the new year offer opportunity for employment and bring new concerns for employers as political change includes some uncertainty for workforce planning in 2017. The Sacramento employment marketplace remains robust as most regional firms polled on hiring in Q1 continue… Read more »

Sacramento Quarterly Employment Trends – Q1 2018

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Job demand & hiring trends for local companies in the 1st Quarter of 2018 Now and Then                                             The ongoing active Sacramento hiring marketplace raises employer concerns in the first quarter of the New Year. In speaking directly with top employers Pacific Staffing discovered hiring, retention and payroll pressure among 2018 employment market concerns.  Pressure… Read more »

Pacific Staffing Sacramento Quarterly Employment Trends – Q4 2016

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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 »