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The world's mobile worker population will pass the one billion mark this year and grow to nearly 1.2 billion people—more than a third of the world's workforce—by 2013. According to a new forecast from IDC, the most significant gains will be in the emerging economies of Asia/Pacific, where a strong economic recovery and new interest in unified communications will drive healthy growth in all aspects of mobility spending.
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The continuing sluggish economy is forcing a growing number of large U.S. employers to take more aggressive measures to control rising health care costs and motivate workers to take charge of improving their own health, according to a survey conducted by Towers Watson and the National Business Group on Health (NBGH). The survey found that 83 percent of companies have already revamped or expect to revamp their health care strategy within the next two years, up from 59 percent in 2009. These moves come at a time when median health cost increases continue at more than twice the rate of inflation. Costs are expected to increase 6.5 percent this year, down slightly from 7 percent in 2009.
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A new evidence review suggests that giving employees more flexibility over their work schedules is likely to boost their health as judged by measures like blood pressure and stress. But interventions that are motivated or dictated by the needs of the employer, such as cutting hours, either have no effect on employee health or make it worse. "Control at work is good for health," said review co-author Clare Bambra, a researcher at Durham University, in England. "Given the absence of ill health effects associated with employee-controlled flexibility and the evidence of some positive improvements in some health outcomes, more flexibility in work schedules has the potential to promote healthier workplaces and improve work practices," Bambra said.
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Employers took 1,761 mass layoff actions in January that resulted in the separation of 182,261 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported February 25. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single employer. Both mass layoff events and initial claims increased from the prior month after four consecutive over-the-month decreases. In January, 486 mass layoff events were reported in the manufacturing sector, seasonally adjusted, resulting in 62,556 initial claims. Both figures increased over the month—the first increases since August 2009 for events and since September 2009 for initial claims. During the 26 months from December 2007 through January 2010, the total number of mass layoff events (seasonally adjusted) was 53,739, and the associated number of initial claims was 5,425,101. (December 2007 was the start of a recession as designated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.)
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Consumer prices as measured by the Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers index (CPI-W) rose 0.4 percent in January, prior to seasonal adjustment, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday, February 19. The CPI-W, which is used as an escalator in union contracts and in federal entitlement payments, registered a January level of 212.568, which was 3.3 percent higher than in January 2009. Consumer prices as measured by the All Urban Consumers index (CPI-U) rose 0.3 percent in January, prior to seasonal adjustment. The January level of 216.687 was 2.6 percent higher than in January 2009. On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-W rose 0.3 percent and the CPI-U rose 0.2 percent.
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Real average hourly earnings was unchanged from December 2009 to January 2010, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday, February 19. A 0.2 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was offset by a 0.2 percent increase in average hourly earnings for all employees.
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