Job Creation news and trends

Prime Day, Amazon’s Answer To Black Friday, Will Last A Whole Week This Year
Amazon // June 27, 2017

It’s not Christmas in July without Black Friday. And it’s not Black Friday if the deals don’t span an entire week. It’s only fitting, then, that eCommerce giant Amazon is celebrating its third annual Amazon Prime Day by expanding the occasion into Amazon Prime Week....

Walmart Bot Strategy Is Not To Use Them
Merchant Innovation // June 05, 2017

They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. Not so for Walmart employees. The company is about to dump millions into tech upgrades, but the real investment it’s making is in human...

Alibaba Meeting With Trump To Discuss 1 Million New US Jobs
Post-Election // January 10, 2017

Jack Ma, the head of China’s largest eCommerce site, Alibaba, met with President-Elect Donald Trump on Monday (Jan. 9) to discuss job creation in the U.S. during the course of the next five years. According to a report by CNBC, Ma is committed to creating 1 million...

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Job Creation Slows Amid Big Cuts in Manufacturing

June 05, 2024
Job creation in the U.S. is demonstrating signs of slowing as wages remain flat. That’s according to the monthly report on private sector employment released Wednesday (June 5) by ADP. It showed the private sector adding 152,000 jobs in May, down from 188,000 the month before. The trend was driven, the report said, by a […]

Walmart Bot Strategy Is Not To Use Them

June 05, 2017
They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. Not so for Walmart employees. The company is about...

Alibaba Meeting With Trump To Discuss 1 Million New US Jobs

January 10, 2017
Jack Ma, the head of China’s largest eCommerce site, Alibaba, met with President-Elect Donald Trump on Monday (Jan. 9) to discuss job creation in the U.S. during the course of the...