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A Crisis Over Child Care Is Holding Back Companies and Blue-Collar Workers

Daycare at work, long a white-collar benefit, is proving tough to pull off with other employees. Daycare at work, long a white-collar benefit, is proving tough to pull off with other employees. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the…

Hotels Embrace Blue-Collar Workers to Prop Up Sagging Business Travel

Hotel owners are lamenting a drop-off in corporate travel during the pandemic as finance, tech and other professionals spend less time on the road. But hoteliers are cheering the boom in travel by blue-collar workers.  Construction crews, travel nurses, truckers and sales teams from small and medium-size businesses have packed hotels for much of the past three years. Leisure travel has been thriving since Covid-19 pandemic restrictions eased. Pent-up demand exploded over the past two years and lifted resort rates to a…

As White-Collar Layoffs Rise, Blue-Collar Resilience Faces Test in 2023

Layoffs at white-collar companies are starting to rise. Now the question hanging over the economy in 2023 is whether that trend spreads to blue-collar industries as interest rates bite.Average layoffs in finance and insurance from September to November nearly doubled from a year earlier, according to Labor Department data released this past week. Job cuts picked up by more than 20% among real-estate lessors, brokers and agents over the same period, and by about 14% in the tech-heavy information sector. Layoff rates in…

Blue-Collar vs White-Collar: What’s the Difference?

We all know that there are different types of workers, which are usually classified based on several parameters. For example, government workers are classified based on their salary and designation, while private corporates are classified on their roles and skills. However, occupational classification is a new method in which these professionals are classified through a color coding technique. Although it is not followed in all countries, most companies classify their employees based on collar colors. There are primarily…