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Job interviews are useless

Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they...
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES were lower than a year ago in September in 224 out of 387 metropolitan areas, including the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area, which saw the rate fall to 4.8 percent from 5.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said this week.

Jobless rate fell over the year in Sept. in Prov. metro

PROVIDENCE – Unemployment rates were lower than a year ago in September in 224 out of 387 metropolitan areas, including the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan...

The good news on jobs really isn’t all that good

Are the initial jobless claims data as useful a tool as they once were in determining the degree of labor slack in the economy?...

Getting to work

How many of your staff use public transportation to get to work? More than 50% – 5.8% Between 10% and 50%...
CVS HEALTH announced Thursday that it was eliminating about 600 jobs nationwide, include roughly 250 at its Woonsocket headquarters.

CVS laying off 250 in R.I.

(Updated 3:14 p.m.) WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. is laying off approximately 600 people nationwide, with 250 positions slated to be eliminated primarily at its...

U.S. third-quarter productivity increases by most in two years

WASHINGTON - Worker productivity rose in the third quarter by the most in two years as the economy picked up steam, offering a respite...
LISA BISACCIA, executive vice president and chief human resources officer for CVS Health Corp., has a wide array of responsibilities, including overseeing wellness programs for the company’s 240,000 employees and their families. / COURTESY CVS HEALTH

Employees value CEO participation in corporate wellness programs

PROVIDENCE – Workplace stress always, almost always or very often impacts nearly 30 percent of employees who responded to a national survey commissioned by...
TOUGH TALK: From left, Kim Keck, president and CEO, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of R.I.; Peter Marino, president and CEO, Neighborhood Health Plan of R.I.; Sandra Coletta, Care New England, chief operating officer; Dr. Peter Hollmann, chief medical officer, University Medicine; Wendy Kagan, senior vice president, BankNewport; and Alok Gupta, R.I. Quality Institute COO, discuss medical costs at the PBN Health Care Reform Summit. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Many factors push against medical-cost restraint

Insurers, doctors and hospitals are ratcheting down the cost of health care with slow and difficult methods, like redesigning doctors' practices and persuading patients...

CVS to pay $600K for mishandling records

WOONSOCKET – CVS Pharmacy Inc. will pay $600,000 to settle federal allegations that it mishandled prescription records related to controlled substances at two Connecticut...

Emails aren’t really private

I was in the middle of an email to an old friend this week, and had written a sentence about a mutual acquaintance that...
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