The logistics industry has a recruiting problem. It's huge, making up 8.5 percent of GDP, and growing fast. But to most job seekers, it's misunderstood - or invisible. How can a $1.3tr industry, getting bigger every year, be hidden in plain sight?
United States transportation and logistics companies added 11,700 jobs for the month in July 2016, according to the latest preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Vizio Inc. puts more trust into third-party contractors than many television companies. Rather than relying on its own factories, the Irvine firm has outside manufacturers do the handiwork, allowing Vizio to lower costs for itself and consumers.
It has often been said that China will grow old before it becomes rich. But could it have too many offices, restaurants, and hotels before it becomes wealthy?
Employment rules and regulations have failed to keep pace with innovation in the American workforce - especially with regard to the growing number of independent workers.
Born two or three years after the invention of the World Wide Web, and just 12 or 13 years old when the invention of the smartphone changed everything, the latest cohort of millennials just graduated from college last spring. Now they are entering the workforce, where they will be joining their "digital native" predecessors, who already make up more than half of the workforce. And they are even more immersed in the technology and culture of the internet than their forerunners were.