Published October 26, 2017 Retailers Turn To Telecommuters When most job seekers consider seasonal retail jobs, they think of late nights, controlling crowds, Black Friday, and wrapping gifts for last-minute holiday shoppers, but a few large retailers are looking for workers willing to stay home this season. JCPenney, Williams-Sonoma,...
Published on: Sep 14, 2017 While pivoting in the retail sector has caused thousands of store closures, price cuts on merchandise, and consolidation within the industry, retailers are signaling that there might be high demand for seasonal jobs, according to a forecast released Thursday from global outplacement...
Published on: Jan 10, 2017 On the news that Macy’s is shuttering 68 stores and cutting 10,000 workers and Limited is closing all 250 locations impacting 4,000 workers, a new report released Tuesday further indicates the industry’s inexorable shift to online. Retail clocked the fewest holiday job gains...
Challenger Seasonal Hiring Update Published DECEMBER 12, 2016 Retailers added fewer workers through the first two-thirds of the typical holiday hiring period, according to an analysis of employment data by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed...
Published November 7, 2016 Despite large-scale hiring announcements from numerous major retailers, the number of October employment gains in the sector declined 21-percent from a year ago to 154,600. That was the fewest job gains to kick off the holiday hiring season since 2012, according to an...
Published on: Sep 13, 2016 Target was the first major retailer to reveal its national holiday hiring plans, announcing Monday that it will add nearly 70,000 extra workers in its stores this year. That represents just under 10 percent of the more than 700,000 retail job gains...
Published on: Jan 13, 2016 Once again, after getting off to a strong start in October, holiday hiring among retailers fizzled in November and December. Overall, seasonal employment gains were 1.2 percent lower than in 2014, making it the second consecutive year in which holiday hires declined. Retail...
November Retail Hiring Falls To 4-year Low Published December 8, 2015 Retailers Add 394,100 In November, 5% Fewer Than A Year Ago After adding a record number of workers in October, the pace of hiring among the nation’s retailers dropped to a four-year low in November, according to an...
October Sees Record Breaking Hiring Retailers Add More Than 200,000 Published on: Nov 17, 2015 Most October Job Gains Ever Recorded Holiday hiring got off to its strongest start ever last month, as retailers added more than 200,000 new workers in October. However, the record pace is not expected...
Published on: Sep 15, 2015 Low gas prices, steady job gains and bigger paychecks are expected to benefit holiday retail sales this year, but that may not necessarily result in increased seasonal hiring in the sector, according to one forecast. In its annual retail holiday hiring outlook, global...
