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Hiring Trends In 2014 – Small Business News from Gaebler.com

January 7, 2014

Written by Ken Gaebler Published: 1/7/2014 On-shoring and part-time hiring are just some of the hiring trends to watch in 2014, says CareerBuilder. Although the economy is improving, employers are cautiously optimistic heading into 2014. In addition to a sense of hopeful skepticism following the recession, employers continue to express concern about Congress and the […]

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Local Company Making Local Jobs Out Of Old T-Shirts – CBS Local

January 7, 2014

BOSTON (CBS) – When Nathan Rothstein launched his t-shirt business, he wanted to find a way to bring manufacturing back to the United States. He found his formula with Project Repat. “We started making different products,” Rothstein tells me, “but what people really wanted was an affordable way to turn their t-shirts into a quilt.” […]

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Hunch, Simple Strategy Pay Off For Butler Factory – Manufacturing.net

January 6, 2014

A black-and-tan sign in Ron Lanning’s office says it all: Simplify. The plant manager said the strategy has helped Autoline Industries Indiana’s Butler factory increase sales by 400 percent and jobs by 300 percent since 2008. For comparison, manufacturing jobs decreased in Indiana by 9 percent during the same six-year period, according to the most […]

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Backing out of China to reshore – ecns

January 6, 2014

More companies from Europe and the United States are returning home as labor and raw material costs rise in China. Provided to China Daily As benefits fall in China, many overseas firms are going home More companies from Europe and the United States that used to outsource production to […]

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Backing out of China to reshore

January 5, 2014
General Electric Co opted to reshore some production from China to its Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2012. Provided to China Daily The number of reported cases of companies that have retu…
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Top US manufacturers returning jobs back to states from China – Tribune-Review

January 5, 2014

American corporations that off-shored manufacturing to China for two decades are bringing jobs home. A decade ago, jobs were on a nearly one-way street to the People’s Republic. In 2003, when 150,000 manufacturing jobs went to China, 2,000 came this way, says Harry Moser, head of the Reshoring Initiative, a nonprofit group that tracks […]

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Hunch, simple strategy pay off for Butler factory – WRAL.com

January 4, 2014

BUTLER, Ind. — A black-and-tan sign in Ron Lanning’s office says it all: Simplify. The plant manager said the strategy has helped Autoline Industries Indiana’s Butler factory increase sales by 400 percent and jobs by 300 percent since 2008. For comparison, manufacturing jobs decreased in Indiana by 9 percent during the same six-year period, according […]

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Reshoring to be Key Strategy for UK Banks in the New Year – Bobsguide (press release)

January 2, 2014

Certeco’s 2014 Predictions for the Financial Services Sector Reshoring – the process of bringing operations back on shore from offshore locations – is set to become a key feature of the financial services (FS) landscape in 2014, according to Certeco, a business technology change consultancy for banks and insurers. Customer facing services […]

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Why factory jobs may be returning to America – Macleans.ca

January 2, 2014

Workers at the Motorola smartphone plant in Fort Worth, Texas. (LM Otero/AP) With its 1.5 million factory workers earning as little as $300 a month to make iPhones, laptops and PlayStations, the Chinese behemoth Foxconn has become a potent symbol of America’s manufacturing decline and the transfer of jobs to Asia. Which is why […]

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7 Career Trends To Watch For In 2014 – Business Insider

December 31, 2013

AP See Also The U.S. economy experienced its share of ups and downs in 2013. Yet as the year comes to a close, the economy is showing signs of improvement that should continue into 2014. The housing sector is rebounding, the stock market has hit new highs, consumer spending is up and unemployment is at […]

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