The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) publishes the amount of time people spend on the telephone, on mail, and on email per day between 2003 and 2018. In terms of time spent on the telephone, the ATUS drills down to measure how much time a person spends talking to a salesperson or customer service representative […]
Month: December 2019
Successful training and development can have a positive impact on engagement, productivity, job satisfaction, and retention. This analysis focuses on retention and examines whether investments in on-the-job training leads to fewer occupational separations. I also examine whether investments in training and development specialists can increase job tenure. Turning to on-the-job training, I first identify the […]
According to O*Net (https://www.onetonline.org/), there are 86 occupations, including economists and video game designers, that interface with some sort of database management software, such as MySQL and Apache Hadoop. These 86 occupations combine for a total of 25.9 million employed persons in 2018 and 2.04 trillion dollars in annual wages. O*Net lists 76 examples of […]
PricewaterhouseCoopers along with The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) publishes an annual report on internet advertising revenue. In 2001, they expanded their categorization of ad types to reflect the growth in alternative formats of online advertising. Between 2000 and 2001, annual advertising revenues dropped by $1 billion with banner advertising dropping by 12%–from 48% to 36%. […]