Departing HR Chief Laymon Leaving Ford ‘in Great Shape’

clipped from workforce.com Ford Motor Co. group vice president Joe Laymon has resigned and will be replaced as head of human resources by Felicia Fields, the automaker said Tuesday, March 25. Laymon, 55, has been with the company since 2000. Laymon was named vice president of human resources and medical services at Chevron Corp., effective immediately. Marty Mulloy will continue to lead labor relations at Ford, but now will have global responsibilities. He’ll report to manufacturing chief Joe Hinrichs. Fields will report to CEO Alan Mulally. The move comes one day after Automotive News published a story in which Laymon named six possible successors to Mulally. Mulally told Automotive News that Laymon notified Ford of his decision to leave Friday, March 21. It was Laymon’s decision to leave, Mulally said. “He’s leaving us in great shape,” Mulally said.

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Free Webinar by Mark.E.Berger on Search Passive Candidates on Google using Automated Tools

Today, finding passive candidates on Google requires recruiters to master and apply advanced search commands and techniques that require time, effort and expertise that many may not have. But being able to quickly zero in on relevant passive resumes on Google, without being a search expert, will be a tremendous competitive advantage for busy recruiters.

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HR Data Breaches Can Leave Holes in Corporate Pockets - Workforce.com

clipped from www.workforce.com mployee data breaches are becoming like leaky roofs for companies—frustrating but familiar. And as such, experts say, organizations are getting smarter about preventing the kind of personal information exposures that can anger workers and damage a firm’s reputation. Some employers have faced lawsuits related to breaches. And challenges persist when it comes to protecting employees’ privacy, including the difficulty of safeguarding sensitive information when so many workers take computers home or on the road. But through steps such as training and data encryption, organizations are finding ways to keep a tight grasp on employee information. “It is now a routine concern,” says Doug Rosinski, an attorney with law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart.

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Working From Home Reduces Stress levels - Survey Results

clipped from www.personneltoday.com Working from home reduces stress in office workers, but leads to fears about career progression, according to research. A survey of 749 staff in managerial or professional positions conducted by Durham Business School showed that homeworkers worried about missing-out on 'water-cooler networking' - where potential opportunities for moving up the ladder are discussed informally in the office. Despite these concerns, the study also found that working from home generally had a positive effect on an employee's work-life balance, giving them more time with the family and leading to less stress and less chance of burnout.

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Starbucks Terminates with Convergys

clipped from workforce.com Starbucks has terminated its HRO contract with Convergys. In a March 13 analyst presentation, John Gibson, president of Convergys’ employee care business, announced that the two companies had mutually agreed to terminate the contract because of “Starbucks’ shifting priorities to focus on short-term initiatives unrelated to HR management.” Gibson’s presentation cites a quote attributed to Starbucks saying, “The decision to discontinue the contract was made based on the changing needs of the business and in no way reflects on the quality of the work Convergys has done for Starbucks.” Starbucks had signed the multi-year HRO agreement with Convergys in July. Under the deal, the Cincinnati-based HRO provider was to handle HR administration and payroll for all of Starbucks’ employees in Canada and the U.S. and take over benefits administration for the company’s Canadian workforce. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, analysts estimated it to be valued at $350 million to $400 million.

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HR Leader Libby Sartain Leaving Yahoo

clipped from workforce.com Libby Sartain, the head of HR at troubled Internet company Yahoo, plans to resign at the end of the month. Sartain, among the highest-profile human resources leaders in the nation, said her decision to step down after roughly seven years at Yahoo was not prompted by pressures on the job but fulfills a long-discussed plan to spend time on her Texas ranch. The 53-year-old intends to take off the rest of 2008 and then consider other options including non-profit work. “My work is done here,” Sartain told Workforce Management in an interview Tuesday, March 18. “I’m just taking a little bit of a break.” Sartain says she will be replaced as “chief people Yahoo” by David Windley, who has served as a Yahoo vice president of HR. Yahoo, a pioneer on the Internet, has weathered tough times over the past year, including slumping profits. It reportedly has laid off more than 1,000 employees this year. And the company recently was targeted by Microsoft in an unsolicited takeover bid.

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Barclays launches New HR Software

clipped from www.personneltoday.com High street bank Barclays has rolled out new software which enables it to scan 800 paper-based HR documents daily before sending them on to a centralised SAP system. The bank is using Hewlett-Packard's Open Text Livelink Archive Server and Livelink ECM to scan, archive and manage 80,000 paper-based staff files annually. These include references, contracts, pensions and grievances. Simon Wheeler, service manager technology at Barclays UK, said since the bank centralised all of its HR information from legacy systems onto an SAP system, there was a requirement to put all paper documents onto it.

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Bill Gates Seeks Rise in Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers

clipped from workforce.com If Congress does not allow more highly skilled foreign students to work in the country after they graduate from U.S. universities, American high-tech companies will lose their ability to develop innovative products, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told a congressional committee on Wednesday, March 12. At a hearing of the House Science and Technology Committee, Gates outlined immigration reforms that he said would help fill “a critical shortfall of skilled scientists and engineers.” He also advocated improving science and math education and increasing federal funding for basic research.

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Survey Hints Drop in Hiring

clipped from workforce.com Survey Hints at Drop in Hiring Manpower’s latest quarterly employment outlook survey showed its weakest hiring projections in four years. The report, released Tuesday, March 11, revealed 9 percent of the 14,000 U.S. companies responding to the survey expect reductions in staff levels between April and June, according to Melanie Holmes, vice president of corporate affairs for the Milwaukee-based staffing giant. A majority of respondents—60 percent—expect no change in their workforce levels, and 26 percent plan to increase hiring. By comparison, during the first quarter of 2004, 13 percent of employers anticipated cuts in staffing, while 61 percent thought headcount would remain the same and 20 percent projected increases. Manpower’s outlook at the same time last year was somewhat stronger, with 7 percent of respondents anticipating staffing cuts.

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Compensation Gap Continues - WorkForce.com

clipped from workforce.com In the survey, conducted among the association’s 259 members, 96 percent said women are paid less than men for comparable work. Nearly two-thirds consider their gender a factor that holds them back in their careers, and many cited a lack of access to decision-makers, mentors or types of assignments critical for career advancement. Entrepreneurs also felt they had limited access to funding sources need to start a business. “The FWA study indicates that women in finance-related careers continue to find themselves hindered in their treatment as equal partners in the workplace,” says Lily Klebanoff Blake, the group’s president. When asked whether certain business conditions were better today than three years ago, only 10 percent of women said issues of pay parity had improved, compared with 20 percent of women in the association’s 2002 survey.

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The World's Billionaires List - Forbes.com

clipped from www.forbes.com Warren Buffett Carlos Slim Helu William Gates III Lakshmi Mittal Mukesh Ambani Anil Ambani Ingvar Kamprad KP Singh Oleg Deripaska Karl Albrecht Li Ka-shing Sheldon Adelson Bernard Arnault Lawrence Ellison Roman Abramovich Theo Albrecht Liliane Bettencourt Alexei Mordashov Prince Alwaleed Mikhail Fridman View The Complete List

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FORD Rewards Employees

clipped from www.workforce.com Ford Motor Co. is paying every U.S. and Canadian employee a $1,000 bonus even though the automaker lost $2.7 billion last year. In a companywide e-mail to all employees on Wednesday, March 5, CEO Alan Mulally said that although Ford fell short of its sales goals for 2007, the automaker “met or exceeded” its objectives in every other category. The bonus also will be paid to managers outside the U.S. and Canada. Mulally said the “performance awards” are based on improvements in cost performance, quality, automotive cash flow and financial results. “The board of directors believe it is important to reward employees for delivering significant results and keeping the company on track to become profitable again by 2009,” Mulally’s e-mail said. The bonuses will be paid this month.

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2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey

clipped from workforce.com I get a lot of surveys sent my way in the course of a week. Most of them aren’t all that surprising or newsworthy. This one was different. Here’s the headline that grabbed my attention: More than half of all employers have fired workers either for e-mail or Internet abuse, according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute. It went on to list these other highlights from the study: • 66 percent of employers are monitoring Internet connections. • 45 percent of employers are tracking content, keystrokes, and time spent at the keyboard. • Another 43 percent store and review computer files. • Of the 43 percent of companies that monitor e-mail, 73 percent use technology tools to automatically monitor e-mail and 40 percent assign an individual to manually read and review e-mail.

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Wall Street's Top Earners

clipped from www.forbes.com #1 James Simons Age: 69 Firm: Renaissance Technologies Headquarters: East Setaucket, N.Y. Earnings: $1,500 million Primary source of earnings: Simon's Medallion fund returned 44% after fees on average assets of $6.4 billion, while the fast-growing Renaissance Institutional fund returned 21% on $9.1 billion. By owning an estimated 40% of the firm and reaping investor fees of more than twice the typical hedge fund, Simons ran away with the top spot. Did you know? Simons worked as a code breaker for the U.S. Department of Defense during the Vietnam War

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