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Gretchen has been working in the newspaper industry for most of her adult life and is the winner of the 2009 Associated Press Community Service Award and the 2010 Associated Press Exposition Award. She received her English degree from Ohio State University in 2005, and resides in Athens, Ohio.
Contact Gretchen at ggregory@logandaily.com
This year marks the United Nations International Year of the Cooperative, and I set out to find what exactly defines a worker-owned business, and how they could benefit staffing agencies. How Can Co-Ops Help Staffing Companies? While it might seem counter indicative that worker-owned co-ops [...]
With more than 550 offices in three countries, the CEO of the world’s 11th largest privately-held staffing company says it’s one thing to take revenue from the communities in which they do business, but giving back is equally important. “It’s not how much you take; [...]
Think you’re entitled to that prevailing wage job you once had? Guess again, because chances are that you aren’t — at least yet. That’s the message from Lani Harless, who has a tough love approach when it comes to helping local job seekers find employment. [...]
California taxpayers could potentially be responsible for absorbing a $16.4 million lien, depending on the outcome of a case getting underway in the United States District Court Eastern District of California involving a sovereign nation. The Blue Lake Rancheria Tribal Government, which operated staffing firm [...]
Mainstay Staffing, a temporary staffing company operated by the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribal Government, an Indian tribe in Northern California, has not appealed a decision made by the California Employment Development Department. Although it’s unclear if Mainstay intends to appeal the EDD’s decision to place [...]
This is Part One of a two-part article featuring TalentRooster, a video resume service. Part One focuses on David DeCapua, the founder of TalentRooster, and the benefits of using his video resume service. Part Two, which will be published on Tuesday, will focus on David’s [...]
Staffmark, a commercial staffing company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has announced that Lesa Francis has been named chief executive officer, in addition to president. The news came after Staffmark CEO Fred Kohnke announced his retirement. Kohnke served as CEO since 2001 and will continue serving on [...]
The economy is having a shaky recovery, as the high price of oil coupled with the price of energy and raw materials threatens to overshadow the U.S. Department of Labor’s announcement that the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly two years. Higher [...]
When the Institute for Supply Management released numbers earlier this week indicating that U.S. manufacturing expanded at the fastest pace in nearly seven years last month, it set off alarms in our office. Could the numbers mean there’s been a steady staffing increase in the [...]
The collective bargaining protests continue, this time in Columbus, Ohio. Staffing Talk was on the scene in downtown Columbus on Tuesday, and we took lots of pictures. The news out of Columbus today is that senators have approved the Ohio Senate Bill 5 measure to [...]
Federal ruling says Walmart can be sued for being negligent in hiring contractors that employ other people at their distribution centers [Hispanic Business] Yahoo to purchase popular blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in an effort to regain young users [Daily Bulletin] Silicon Valley tech companies [...]
It’s not often that I get the opportunity to chat with one of the many talented developers here at TempWorks (they’re always so busy working on the next new and exciting tech project), but when I do I always come away thinking we just mentally [...]
(This post was originally published July 2, 2009.) Amazon is reinventing the book industry with its Kindle product and cannibalizing its own printed book market along the way. You should be thinking the same way about your recruitment company. As much as I’ve been a [...]
The Deluge of Negativity Surrounding Email Email is the new pony express. Email is a distraction. Email is for old people. These are sweeping complaints, but they have compelling nuggets of truth under the surface. For instance, while transmitting an email isn’t slow, it often [...]
By popular demand, Staffing Talk has been following every new development the Affordable Care Act can dish out because, as readers like you have made clear, it’s kinda a big deal to staffing. Unfortunately it’s been a little while since we’ve had an update for [...]
