December 6, 2011
"It turns out, teenagers aren’t avoiding careers in engineering because they think it’s geeky. They’re simply unaware of what engineers do, a survey of 1,000 teenagers showed."

— Quote found in a Oregonian article titled:  Intel survey of teenagers shows they don’t know what engineers do, limiting them from choosing those careers

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Filed under: engineers engineering skills teenagers future workforce trends 
November 26, 2011
"Looking out five years, Forrester sees three technology ‘trains’ impacting the future of workforce productivity, innovation, and advocacy. All three of these trains have left the station: enterprise mobility, enterprise social, and cloud services for business."

— Quote by  Matt Brown, vice president and practice leader at Forrester Research.  Quote found at Forrester Press Release:  Half of US Information Worrkers Split Time Between Office And Remote Locations

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Filed under: Forrester research workers workforce technology remote mobility 
May 18, 2011
"Social media is one of the most confounding developments of this century. It upends so many assumptions we have about how we should control information, branding and recruitment. And it is playing a more pivotal role than I ever imagined in how we recruit and retain our employees as well as how we win and keep our customers."

— Quote by Randy MacDonald, senior vice president of human resources at IBM in an article MacDonald wrote titled “Embracing Social Media” at hronline.com
Randy MacDonald

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Filed under: social hr human-resources social-media trends social-computing recruiting ibm executive collaboration productivity workforce 
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