Week in Review
Employment News for the Week of December 19
- December 18th, 2009
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While you were busy crashing from too much celebration on National Cupcake Day, taking advantage of Free Shipping Day, or saying, “Who is doing what now?” here’s what was happening in the world of hiring and recruiting this week…
- Glassdoor.com releases its second annual “Best Places to Work” list with a new number one.
- What prom and job growth have in common.
- Turns out, Employee Assistance Programs can assist companies, too
- A new bill represents broadest protections ever extended to transgender public employees in NY State.
- Jealous! Some companies actually do well during recessions.
- Workers wait 2 hear if text messages on employer-owned electronic devices will B kept private.
- New survey shows how we achieve workplace satisfaction (Is it sad that we need a survey to tell us that?)
- Michigan becomes the 38th state to ban workplace smoking. (Any takers on who will be 39?)
- And finally… Admit it – you let a few of these slip out every now and then.
About Mary Lorenz
Mary is a copywriter for CareerBuilder, specializing in B2B marketing and corporate recruiting best practices and social media. In addition to creating copy for corporate advertising and marketing campaigns, she researches and writes about employee attraction, engagement and retention. Whenever possible, she makes references to pop culture. Sometimes, those references are even relevant. A New Orleans native, Mary now lives in Chicago, right down the street from the best sushi place in the city. It's awesome.
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