Day archives: March 12th, 2011

NYT: Google's Quest to Build a Better Boss

NYT: “In early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to devise something far more important to the future of Google Inc. than its next search algorithm or app. They wanted to build better bosses…Project Oxygen is also unusual…because it is based on Google’s own data, …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

BLS – Employment Situation Summary, March 2011

News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 192,000 in February, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 8.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in manufacturing, construction, professional and business services, health care, and transportation and warehousing. Household Survey Data: The number of unemployed persons (13.7 million) and …

Subjects: Government Documents