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Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
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Political expression runs hot in America these days. How much can employers control speech in the workplace? The problem: There is no one answer. Employers may be aware that the First Amendment only protects citizens from government restrictions on speech.…
The number of U.S. employees willing to go above and beyond what is required of them dropped by nearly 10% over the last three years. In Gartner’s Global Talent Monitor for 2Q 2018, only 17.8% of U.S. workers expressed high levels of discretionary effort,…
A formal rulemaking opened by the National Labor Relations Board would reverse an Obama-era decision allowing independent contractors, leased and temporary employees to vote alongside the regular workforce on union representation. Republican Board Chairman…
Compliance reviews of federal contractors and subcontractors by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs will focus more intensely on the employers’ lack of Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) documentation. Last February, the office announced its…
It may come as a real surprise, but Amazon.com was not rated No. 1 among the National Retail Federation’s Hot 100 list of fastest-growing retailers. In fact, it wasn’t even No. 2 or No. 3. The Hot 100 list is compiled for NRF by the research firm of Kantar…
A survey finds that consumers are fed up with poor customer engagement experiences and outdated approaches to customer service, and 68% note they would buy more from brands that put “service” back into customer service. Most consumers polled by Oracle…
Prologis completed its acquisition of DCT Industrial Trust for $8.5 billion in a strategic move viewed as creating new opportunities for Prologis to profit from the ecommerce boom. "We have tremendous respect and admiration for what the DCT team has…
An academic study suggests that employer concerns over tattoos and piercings visible on members of the workforce are unwarranted. Researchers from the University of Miami and University of Australia found that the salaries and wages of tattooed employees…
An American Transportation Research Institute analysis says the potential annual cost benefit of allowing commercial drivers additional flexibility when taking required hours-of-service breaks can be as much as $150 million. ATRI used empirical truck GPS…
A leading economic indicator produced by the American Chemistry Council predicts gains in U.S. commercial and industrial activity well into the first quarter of 2019 – but at a slower pace. The ACC’s Chemical Activity Barometer was flat in August remaining…
Rapid growth of ecommerce is expected to create demand for an additional 452,000 warehouse and distribution workers in the United States this year and next, signaling an acceleration of job growth in the already labor-strapped industry, says a new report…
Since the #MeToo movement began some employers have embraced a Zero Tolerance approach to sexual harassment – get caught doing it and you are fired. Some experts hold that this policy is too extreme and can be counterproductive. "Zero tolerance is too blunt…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
Showing 992 posts in Warehouse and Logistics Newsletter.
Political expression runs hot in America these days. How much can employers control speech in the workplace? The problem: There is no one answer. Employers may be aware that the First Amendment only protects citizens from government restrictions on speech.…
The number of U.S. employees willing to go above and beyond what is required of them dropped by nearly 10% over the last three years. In Gartner’s Global Talent Monitor for 2Q 2018, only 17.8% of U.S. workers expressed high levels of discretionary effort,…
A formal rulemaking opened by the National Labor Relations Board would reverse an Obama-era decision allowing independent contractors, leased and temporary employees to vote alongside the regular workforce on union representation. Republican Board Chairman…
Compliance reviews of federal contractors and subcontractors by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs will focus more intensely on the employers’ lack of Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) documentation. Last February, the office announced its…
It may come as a real surprise, but Amazon.com was not rated No. 1 among the National Retail Federation’s Hot 100 list of fastest-growing retailers. In fact, it wasn’t even No. 2 or No. 3. The Hot 100 list is compiled for NRF by the research firm of Kantar…
A survey finds that consumers are fed up with poor customer engagement experiences and outdated approaches to customer service, and 68% note they would buy more from brands that put “service” back into customer service. Most consumers polled by Oracle…
Prologis completed its acquisition of DCT Industrial Trust for $8.5 billion in a strategic move viewed as creating new opportunities for Prologis to profit from the ecommerce boom. "We have tremendous respect and admiration for what the DCT team has…
An academic study suggests that employer concerns over tattoos and piercings visible on members of the workforce are unwarranted. Researchers from the University of Miami and University of Australia found that the salaries and wages of tattooed employees…
An American Transportation Research Institute analysis says the potential annual cost benefit of allowing commercial drivers additional flexibility when taking required hours-of-service breaks can be as much as $150 million. ATRI used empirical truck GPS…
A leading economic indicator produced by the American Chemistry Council predicts gains in U.S. commercial and industrial activity well into the first quarter of 2019 – but at a slower pace. The ACC’s Chemical Activity Barometer was flat in August remaining…
Rapid growth of ecommerce is expected to create demand for an additional 452,000 warehouse and distribution workers in the United States this year and next, signaling an acceleration of job growth in the already labor-strapped industry, says a new report…
Since the #MeToo movement began some employers have embraced a Zero Tolerance approach to sexual harassment – get caught doing it and you are fired. Some experts hold that this policy is too extreme and can be counterproductive. "Zero tolerance is too blunt…