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• 22% of hiring managers check out candidates’ social networking profiles
• 62% of salaried Americans happy with their medical and retirement benefits
• Most dangerous US jobs: fishing, flying, logging
• Highest-paid US public company executives
• 62.7% of US employees choose PPO plan for their medical insurance
• 78% of US employees feel burned out on the job
• Small business salaries down 0.4% in June 2008
• 31% of US organizations have weight-loss programs
• 20% drop in Computer Science majors in 2008
• 40% of US employees completely satisfied with their jobs
• 37% of US IT workers would take a pay cut if it involved telecommuting
• 78% of companies using social networks to find candidates
• 67% of Canadian execs see professional networking sites useful
• 91,400 high-tech jobs added in the US in 2007
• 21,400 IT jobs added in California in 2006, 5.9 mln Americans were employed by tech
• 37% of US employees were bullied on the job
• 74% of Californians noticed a weaker economy in February 2008
• 63K jobs lost in February 2008
• 16.2% of top CEOs left their jobs in 2007
• 23% of Americans regularly work from offsite locations
• Average IT worker earned $32.39 an hour in October 2007
• 48% of Americans have known of a married colleague having an affair
• Top European job sites in Q4 2007
• Top employment sites in January 2008
• By 2011 75% of the US workforce will be mobile
• 1.4 mln Americans unemployed for long-term in January 2007
• 17K US jobs lost in January 2007
• Top European job sites in Q4 2007
• 20% of employees casually browse Internet, use P2P at work
• Only 27% of CIOs have enough people to work on the business needs
• 80% of Japanese workforce to be mobile by 2011
• Average American worked a 45-hour week in 2007
• 50% of US small business owners telecommute
• 23% of US workers regularly telecommute
• Base salaries will increase 3.9% in 2008
• 42% of US employees plan to give bonuses
• 166k new US jobs added in October 2007
• College tuitions up 6.6% in 2007
• 41 mln Americans cannot afford health care and housing
• Online job sites market shares
• Techiest US cities: San Jose, Washington DC, Raleigh
• 88% of workers consider themselves creative, 37% consider their companies dull
• Online job posts up 4% in September 2007
• 22% of computer science degrees were awarded to women in 2005
• 11% of UK employees telecommute
• 45% of Americans think economy is declining
• Top starting salaries for IT professionals
• 17% of US work force are baby boomers
• 78.9% of execs plan to take a vacation in 2007
• 85% of job applicants think a tattoo impedes getting a job
• 60% of workers waste 1.7 hours a day
• 66% of US companies plan to hire more IT staff
• 45% of US employees did not use all vacation days in 2006
• 71% of interns in 2007 were paid
• 5.8 mln Americans work in IT, 1.5 mln of them are software engineers
• 148 mln US employees in 2007
• US unemployment rate is at 4.4%
• 44% of federal workers have an option to telework
• Small business employment up 0.7% so far in 2007
• Only 47% of Americans like their jobs
• 1.804 mln of new jobs in 2000-2005 taken by men, 1.996 mln - by women
• Half of Americans are looking for new jobs
• IT exec salaries in large companies up 1.92% in Q4 2006
• Smal business salaries up 7.4% in 2006
• US office workers interrupted 11 times an hour
• 132k new jobs in November 2006
• 76% of Americans earning more than $100,000 say leisure time is important
• 48% of UK IT workers are looking for another job
• Top European employment sites
• 71% of top performers switch companies due to pay levels
• Top US companies founded by immigrants: Intel, Solectron, Sanmina-SCI, Sun
• Newspaper industry shed 18% of its jobs between 1990 and 2004
• US unemployment at 4.4% in September 2006
• Obesity costs US companies $13 bln a year
• 25% of US retailers to increase counterfraud measures this holiday season
• 67% of employees report information overload
• 70% of companies have hired high schoolers with poor grammar or writing skills
• Average small business owner salary is $233,600
• Best commuter workplaces in 2006
• 19% of US employees would post resumes on social networking sites
• 18% of IT workers expect their employers to make cuts
• 51K new jobs added in September 2006
• 100,315 Americans laid off in September 2006
• 140k new tech jobs in the first half of 2006
• Top-growing occupations 2004-2014
• Top companies for women
• Only 33% of employees satisfied with employer-employee communication
• 70% of baby boomers do not plan to retire after reaching 65
• 60% of tech workers are looking for new jobs
• 538,914 Americans laid off so far this year
• 45% of employees got raises in 2005
• 20% of US families control 50.4% of US income
• In 2006 US executives received a 58.8% raise
• 29% of workers work longer hours today than a year ago
• Average programmer got a 8.7% increase in 2006
• Post-secondary education enrollment to grow 13% between 2004 and 2014
• 88% of companies added health benefits to retain employees
• $1.1 trillion to be spent on engineering services by 2020
• 39% of IT employees to look for new jobs in Q3 2006
• 13% of US males 30-55 do not work
• Most prestigious US occupations: firefighters, doctors, nurses, scientists
• 73% of HR execs blame low morale on leadership problems
• Turnover at tech companies was at 12.3% in Q2 2006
• Both males and females prefer male bosses to female
• 2% of large US companies have fired employees for inappropriate blogging
• Only 11% of employees take advantage of telecommuting policies
• Most affordable US cities: Knoxville, Tennessee, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Kokoma, Indiana
• US incomes up 0.4% in May 2006
• 75% of information workers have made decisions based on bad data
• Data on 2005 H1-B applications
• Cell phones ringing #1 annoyance at work
• 22.1% of self-employed Europeans work from home
• 56% of US small business owners hired or have tried to hire staff in May 2006
• 50% of employees 18 to 24 do not plan to stay with their companies
• 70% of hiring managers plan to recruit college grads in 2006
• Unemployment in Canada is at 6.1%
• 36% of telecommuting CSRs say their decision was influenced by gas prices
• 75K new jobs added in May 2006
• Monster Employment index up 25% in May 2006
• 144,000 Americans employed with video game industry
• New Zealand wages up 3.1% in Q1 2006
• 138K Americans got hired in April 2006
• Average tech salary in Silicon Valley is $85,600, C/C++ the most demanded skill
• Top employers for MBAs: McKinsey, Google, Goldman Sachs
• In March 2007 unemployment level was at 4.7%, 2.2% for college-educated workers
• Pay for certified IT skills up 2.6% in 2005, pay for non-certified up 4.4%
• IT staffing in healthcare down by 38% in 2005
• 3.472 mln IT workers in the US in Q1 2006
• Best US jobs: software engineer, college professor, financial advisor
• 60% of Americans think they will never be too old to start a business
• Canadian unemployment at 6.3%
• 211K jobs added in March 2006
• 72% of US companies plan to hire 2006 graduates
• Online recruitment ads to grow 20-30% in 2006
• Online job postings up in 28 US markets in February 2006
• US GDP up 8.4% in 5 years, wages down 0.3%
• Hiring better finance people will lead 30% of customers to pay their bills faster
• March Madness cost US employers $3.8 bln in productivity
• 25% of US employees use work Internet for job hunting
• US jobless benefit claims down by 11K in one week
• 54% of US workers do not want the job of their boss
• 31% of US companies plan to continue hiring in Q2 2006
• US unemployment rate up to 4.8% in February 2006
• 2-3% of US IT jobs to go offshore by 2016
• Canada unemployment rate at 6.6% in January 2006
• Internet sources produced 51% of all new hires in 2005
• IT wages up 3.1% in 2005
• US unemployment is at 4.7%
• 13% of UK parents take work home every day
• 125K tech jobs created in 2005, 217K new tech jobs in 2006
• IT unemployment rate stayed at 2.9% in 2005
• 1.63 mln jobs posted online in December 2005
• Silicon Valley employment up 0.2% in 2005
• In 2004 61% of new hires were referred by Internet postings
• Best companies to work for: Genentech, Wegmans Food Markets, Valero Energy
• Foreign student enrollment at US universities down 3%
• 48 mln Americans have no pension benefits
• Small business hiring up 0.3% in 2005
• 300K customer care reps to work from home by 2010
• Silicon Valley employees earning 17% more than US average
• 100 mln Americans to telecommute in 2008
• 26.1 mln Americans work from home at least 1 day a month
• Phone companies shed 15.5% of their jobs between 1998 and 2003
• IT vendors to increase customer support staffing by 40% a year through 2008
• 25% of Europeans have visited a job site in Q3 2005
• Venture-funded firms created 630K European jobs in 2000-2004
• UK attracted 22K foreign workers in 2004
• Worldwide recruiting market to grow at 8.3% a year
• 2 mln help-wanted ads posted online in October 2005
• 41% of US companies will give employees holiday bonuses
• 15% of immigrants to the USA go into architecture and engineering
• 21% of UK IT workers are female
• 56K new jobs in October 2005
• Best states to work in: Delaware, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Vermont
• 41 mln will work from home at least once a week by 2008
• IT salaries up 3% in 2005
• Only 48% of US middle managers are satisfied with their jobs
• 41K tech jobs eliminated in Q3 2005
• Public university tuition up 7.1% in 2005
• 26 mln Western European teleworkers by 2010
• 68% of Chinese companies expect to increase staffing
• 500,000 networking technology vacancies will not be filled in 2008
• HCL Infosystems, Infosys and TCS top Indian employers
• IT worker confidence index down in August 2005
• 190K tech jobs added in the first half of 2005
• Most popular employers among US computer science students: Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Apple
• 16% of CIOs plan hiring, 4% - firing
• US median household income was $44,389 in 2004
• Tech paychecks down 1.2% in Q2 2005
• Silicon Valley job count up by 900 in July 2005
• Number of female students entering computer science down 80% in 2004 from 1998 levels
• 41% of Americans dated a co-worker
• States with most new tech jobs in July 2005: California, Texas, New Jersey
• Hiring by small businesses up 0.1% in July 2005
• 207K new jobs added to the economy in July 2005
• Most US small businesses with employees stay open for 11 hours a day
• 63% of financial companies and 62% of government organizations plan to hire IT staff
• Silicon Valley created 6,900 jobs in June 2005
• Salaries for certified tech workers up 3% for the past 12 months
• Tech unemployment is at 3.7%

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