On October 28, 2025, Amazon confirmed the layoff of 14,000 corporate employees—roughly 4% of its white-collar ...

In a recent webinar "Labor Forecasting 2.0: Predicting Future Demand and Staffing for Efficient Growth with AI," presented by Deputy and hosted by Networld Media Group, experts explored how AI-powered ...

MorningStar Senior Living needed scheduling help. That much was obvious. The Denver-based operator wasn’t unique in this ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Legion Technologies, an innovator in workforce management, today released the 2025 edition of its annual State of the North American Hourly Workforce Report. The ...

Companies that embrace workflow optimization and digital tools with open arms can be the most likely to overcome the challenges that a nationwide labor shortage brings forth, allowing for longstanding ...

The landscape of public works construction is an arena of intricate challenges. It demands a delicate calibration between economic efficiency, adherence to stringent schedules, and the unwavering ...

Editor’s Note: Is treating employees well, minimizing costs and earning a high return for investors, all at the same time, too good to be true? No, says MIT Sloan School of Management professor Zeynep ...

The most unsettling truth about artificial intelligence’s economic future is that profitability, at least for the largest ...

This paper examined labor efficiency and productivity benchmarks for a sample of non-irrigated crop farms. Labor benchmarks varied widely among the farms. On average, labor efficiency (labor cost ...

Plant accountants factor labor cost to determine the effectiveness of their labor input. In order to determine the cost of a unit of production, it is necessary to add direct materials, direct labor ...

Editor’s note: Nick Cronin is a former corporate attorney and now the President and Founder of ExpertBids.com, which is based in Chicago. For more than a decade now, the Internet has done a great job ...

Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Summer, 1976), pp. 124-140 (17 pages) Data from a situation of rapid agricultural change in Costa Rica illustrate the mechanism of agricultural ...