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An Update on U.S. Workforce Activity
This report explores weekly workforce data across approximately 40,000 U.S. businesses and their 4.5 million employees.
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Longer Lines, Less Help on Black Friday? It Wasn’t Your Imagination, Finds UKG
LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | An analysis of high-frequency shift work data from UKG shows the total number of shifts worked in the retail sector on Black Friday 2022 declined 5%, compared with 2021. The decline mirrors predictions leading up to the shopping holiday, which indicated that inflation, coupled with continued growth in online commerce, would prompt traditional brick-and-mortar retailers to temper staffing amid shoppers’ changing preferences.
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Slight Reduction in New Jobs Expected for October as Workforce Activity Declines Begin to Steepen, Labor Market Cooling Continues
LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | The UKG Workforce Activity Report for October 2022 shows the total number of shifts worked1 by people at U.S. businesses decreased 0.9% since September 2022 while the monthly index dropped half a point to 97.1, reflecting a steady cooling of the labor market entering the fourth quarter of 2022.
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U.S. Unemployment Claims Fell Sharply Last Week
The Wall Street Journal | Ultimate Kronos Group, a workplace software firm, said the number of shifts worked by employees across the U.S. fell last week, led by a 58.5% drop in Mississippi and nearly 50% declines in Texas and Louisiana.
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Do You Manage Up or Down?
Strategy+Business | One example of an effective model comes from Aron Ain, the CEO of Ultimate Kronos Group (known as UKG), an HR software company based in Lowell, Mass.
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Key Management Skills for the Age of Remote Work
HR Daily Advisor | “Virtual micromanagement happens when managers monitor the productivity of their distributed teams more closely than in-office reports,” says Cecile Alper-Leroux, VP of Human Capital Innovation at UKG.
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Who’s Watching the Kids? As Vaccine and School Progress Stalls, Working Moms are on the Brink
NBC News | “This is all compounding, and it is snowballing because kids are not in school, allowing parents to be back at work,” said Chris Mullen, executive director of The Workforce Institute at UKG.
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