Word: expectancies
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...chairman of the oil and gas committee of the Iraqi parliament: "Work on the field is negatively affecting their land and homes as well as the environment. The company has to either satisfy the residents by offering them jobs in, specially, guarding the facility and things like that, or expect that they won't be able to work safely...
...Three quarters of the HR leaders who responded to the Watson Wyatt survey expect their business to improve by the end of this year. There's some good news on the salary front, too. A new survey from Mercer, a global HR consulting firm, found that average base salary has actually risen over the past year by an average of 3%. Mercer's compensation survey covered about a million workers at some 1,000 firms across various industries. Among HR administrators at firms that have frozen salaries, 69% expect such freezes to end over the next 12 months...
...improves a bit, the perks are dwindling. "The landscape may be permanently changed in terms of what American employers are able to provide in total rewards," says Sejen. "Many employees will be looking at permanently reduced levels of compensation and benefits." The areas where HR officials don't expect to restore spending to pre-recession levels include company health-care insurance contributions, travel reimbursements and retirement savings matches...
...their part, employers are demanding better talent and faster service. Given the broader pool of talent on the market, recruiters are expected to serve up a mix of candidates that's superior to a typical pre-recession pool. Clients also expect searches to be completed more quickly. Instead of waiting 75 or 90 days from the start of a search to its conclusion, many clients want a candidate in place within 60 days...
Wilkinson said that those conferences would take place as scheduled, but that "people will just have to work harder" in light of the reduced staffing. For this upcoming year, organizers expect the conferences to host 475 to 500 TFs and 30 junior faculty members, he said, as well as the newly appointed Harvard College Fellows...