by Christine Moukazis | Jul 2, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
The job market heated up, as employment increased by 850,000 in June. The unemployment rate rose to 5.9%, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. This may be due to more entrants into the job market, which is a good sign of people feeling more...
by Christine Moukazis | Jul 1, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News, Remote Work
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, recently told his global workforce of 137,000 employees that they’d have to return to the office beginning early September. It’s expected that employees will spend about three days a week at the office and the other two at home or...
by Christine Moukazis | Jun 30, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
Now’s the time for workers to use their leverage. It’s a hot job market, companies need to hire and this is your chance to ask for what you want, desire and, most importantly, deserve. This includes getting compensated for all of the things you do that are not...
by Christine Moukazis | Jun 29, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
Mike Conley is a software engineer with the #opentowork banner on his LinkedIn profile. He’s currently in between roles. Conley has over 25 years of “progressive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture and management.” He has...
by Christine Moukazis | Jun 28, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
If you are great at what you do, why should you be forced to earn less than what you’re worth just because you live outside of a major city? Doesn’t it seem reasonable that a person should be paid what they’re worth regardless of where they live? Location-based...
by Christine Moukazis | Jun 28, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
Two years ago, if I said we’d all be working remotely, you’d laugh. Suffering through over eight-hour days, five days a week in the office was the punishing standard, until Covid-19 hit. Then, the unthinkable happened. Companies dispatched their employees out of the...
by Christine Moukazis | Jun 28, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies captured our rapt attention with their amazing gains, creating newly minted millionaires and billionaires. There’s also talk about the volatility associated with buying digital assets and the recent sell-off in Bitcoin, along with other...
by Christine Moukazis | Jun 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
As Jeff Bezos relinquishes his CEO title and is heading into space, there’s another attempt to unionize Amazon workers. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, with over 1 million members, “voted overwhelmingly” to organize hundreds of thousands of Amazon’s...
by Christine Moukazis | Jun 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News, Remote Work
What a difference a few months makes. Human resources (HR) professionals went from laying off workers and desperately trying to hold onto their own jobs to becoming one of the hottest growth areas. According to Indeed, the large job aggregation site, listings for...
by Christine Moukazis | Jun 24, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News
Top-tier investment bank Morgan Stanley told its bankers, brokers and traders that workers who haven’t been vaccinated won’t be allowed to return to its New York City and Westchester County offices. Additionally, the bank’s employees in the New York area will be...