It’s time to start thinking about W-2 and 1099 preparation, says Wipfli LLP. The federal law aimed at making it easier for the IRS to detect and prevent refund fraud will accelerate the W-2 filing ...
It’s a classic case of viewing the world as a “glass half full or half empty” about January 2’s report on December 2018’s Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI). While the vast majority of economists say anything ...
A report released by the Economic Policy Institute says the Section 232 tariffs on aluminum and steel initiated earlier this year seem to be working as trade advocates predicted. Last week’s report says specifically: U.S. primary ...
Capital spending and improved sales led the way for business success in 2018, members of Schaumburg-based Technology & Manufacturing said in a monthly flash survey reported this week. Over 35% of those responding to the ...
There were 1 million more jobs than unemployed US workers in the most recent government count of job openings, according to a Labor Department release Monday. Total available jobs stood at 7.08 million for October, ...
Good news continues to come from U.S. manufacturing ranks. In November, manufacturers made the most hires in the last seven months – 27,000 new workers on manufacturing floors nationwide. Hiring in November was led by ...
Forbes points to what’s ahead for manufacturing: digitization, digitalization and digital transformation, to name three. The three sound alike, but they’re very different from each other. And it’s all about data and how it is ...
Running as lean and fast as they can to capitalize on every growth opportunity in 2018, manufacturers are taking bold steps to digitally transform operations in 2019. According to a recent survey of 151 North ...
The Technology & Manufacturing Association found in their monthly survey for November 2018 that their main pain point continues to be the lack of skilled workers. 40% said finding skilled workers was more problematic than ...
In a Forbes story published Wednesday, author Lisa Caldwell writes about how manufacturers need to embrace digitization in order to stay up to the fast pace the industry has stepped into. The good thing is ...