Office jobs in New York City, defined as jobs in the professional and business services, financial activities, and information industries, have increased by 21,200 through October of this year.
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Recently, there has been tremendous coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests. It is obvious that this is not a political movement but merely a way for some disgruntled Americans to express their frustrations. It is unfocused and really has no coherent agenda. Ask 50 demonstrators why they are there and what they hope to achieve and you get 50 different answers. Read More
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Cassidy Turley research guru Robert Sammons on private-sector job gains and the Manhattan office market:
What double-dip recession? What jobless recovery? There has been so much doom-and-gloom economic rhetoric circling the globe lately that the new jobs numbers just released by the City Comptroller’s Office appear, on the surface, to be totally contradictory. Read More
A source just informed The Observer that Chelsea’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is currently hiring attendants to monitor its space during its upcoming Haim Steinbach exhibition, titled “Creature.”
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The leaders of another public employee union in New York have chosen sanity over mindless confrontation. Negotiators for the Public Employees Federation, the state’s second-largest union, recently agreed to a new five-year deal that will save taxpayers $400 million in wage and benefit reforms over the life of the contract. The deal comes on the Read More
Last Friday’s employment report underscores that the national economic and labor market recoveries remain unusually fragile even two years after the recession’s formal end. Too many investors and lenders underestimate the drags on value if interest rates should rise ahead of cash flow. Read More
If you search for the term “personal assistant” on Twitter, you usually find one of three things: people complaining about how busy they are and wishing they had an assistant, people complaining about being unemployed and saying they’d love to get a job as a personal assistant, and people tweeting at celebrities, offering to work Read More
From the Jobs That Are Left listserv:
SCHEDULER/OFFICE MANAGER: State Senate Democrat seeking a Scheduler and Office Manager. This is a critical position in the district office and is NOT a glorified executive assistant position. Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: handling all scheduling requests, working with staff to build a strategic Read More
Payrolls expanded by 216,000 jobs in March, according to last week’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Businesses easily offset cutbacks in local governments, as private employment increased by 230,000 jobs in March and, on a revised basis, 240,000 jobs in February.
Investors are understandably encouraged; the new counts mark the strongest monthly Read More
