Workforce Items
Improving the Mental Health of Correctional Workers: Perspectives From the Field
Recognizing that those directly or indirectly experiencing the mental health impacts associated with correctional work are ideally positioned to identify how interventions can be improved, the current study draws on the perspectives of provincial and territorial correctional staff in Canada to identify mental health initiatives that promote staff well-being.
Prison Staff Shortages Take Toll on Guards, Incarcerated People
Pay raises and higher starting salaries are key to Texas gaining more correctional officers.
Roundtable: How corrections was challenged in 2022
Salaries, training, inmate and officer mental health care among key ingredients for retention.
Workforce Trends 2022: How Companies Are Building Digital Dream Teams
While employees have their say about where, when, and how they want to work, company leaders are just as busy creating the post-pandemic workplace. From workplace flexibility to technology-driven individual and team augmentation, here are some top workforce predictions about how companies can craft the ideal employee experience (EX) for increasingly digitalized, sustainable business models.
11 Trends that Will Shape Work in 2022 and Beyond
We’ve been living through the greatest workplace disruption in generations and the level of volatility will not slow down in 2022. New Covid variants will continue to emerge and may cause workplaces to temporarily go remote again. Hybrid work will create more unevenness around where, when, and how much different employees are working. Many employees will be greeted with real wage cuts as annual compensation increases fall behind inflation.
Improving Employment Outcomes for the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Returning Citizens
To explore challenges and opportunities associated with improving employment outcomes among BOP releasees, the National Institute of Justice — supported by the RAND Corporation, in partnership with the University of Denver — hosted a virtual workshop of BOP staff, community-based reentry service providers, researchers, national employers, and other experts. This report summarizes discussion points from the workshop and presents a wide-ranging set of needs identified by workshop participants.
Labouring behind bars: Assessing international law on working prisoners.
Most people serving a sentence of imprisonment will work while in custody, whether performing domestic or maintenance tasks for the prison, or producing goods or services, usually with the involvement of businesses, charities, or other non-state providers. Under international law, as well as most national legal systems, working prisoners enjoy far fewer legal protections than free workers. They typically receive little or no pay and have little protection against coercion or poor working conditions.
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2023
The report covers the extent and consequences of the labour market disruption caused by overlapping economic and geopolitical crises and analyzes global patterns, regional differences and outcomes across groups of workers.
Managers, Here’s How to Be a Better Ally in the Remote Workplace
Recent research shows that people who have at least one ally at their job are nearly twice as likely to be satisfied and feel like they belong. As a manager, you have a unique opportunity to be role a model in building inclusion across teams, but you may face unique challenges in remote or hybrid settings.
2021 State of the Workforce Report: Responding to the Pandemic
The intent of this report is to provide the nation a better understanding of the extraordinary challenges state workforce agency staff faced during the 2020 pandemic and present the measurable results of their tireless efforts. For more information or to begin a conversation, use the contact information provided on each state’s profile within the report.
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021
ILO projections highlight the danger of a COVID-19 labour market legacy of increased geographic and demographic inequality, rising poverty and fewer decent jobs.
The Employment Situation, August 2021
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 235,000 in August, and the unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percentage point to 5.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. So far this year, monthly job growth has averaged 586,000. In August, notable job gains occurred in professional and business services, transportation and warehousing, private education, manufacturing, and other services. Employment in retail trade declined over the month.
Global Workforce Demographics
In 2021, Dow’s updated Inclusion, Diversity and Equity strategy – ALL IN 2025 – focuses on leading with inclusion, elevating their focus on diversity, and embedding equity into their practices, policies and processes.
7 Gallup Workplace Insights: What We Learned in 2021
2020 will likely be remembered as the year the workplace changed forever. From in-office safety measures to work-from-home conference calls, leaders have been forced to reimagine every aspect of their management culture.
What's essential to performance? How does personal life shape professional life? What do our core values really mean when the marketplace throws a curveball?
State of the Global Workplace: 2021 Report
This annual report represents the collective voice of the global employee. In this edition, the pandemic and its aftershock continued to disrupt the workplace. Check out the most recent employee data and workplace trends in the State of the Global Workplace: 2022 Report.
Global Prison Trends 2021: Prison Staff
The coronavirus pandemic brought high risk to the health and lives of prison staff, as well as worsening working conditions for prison staff. While some countries classified or termed prison staff as frontline, essential or at higher risk, overall, their situation did not receive adequate attention from political decision-makers.
Occupational Employment and Wages, Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers, May 2021
Employment estimate and mean wage estimates for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers:
The Employment Situation of Veterans, January 2021
The following tables summarize the employment situation of veterans in America based on BLS data released on February 5, 2021. These are unpublished data from the Current Population Survey, not seasonally adjusted, and represent the period ending January 2021.
Occupational Employment and Wages, First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers, May 2021
Employment estimate and mean wage estimates for First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers:
Occupational Employment and Wages, Correctional Officers and Jailers, May 2021
Employment estimates and mean wage estimates for Correctional Officers and Jailers.
U.S. Unemployment Rates, 1991-2022
Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment.
Occupational Employment and Wages, Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists, May 2021
Employment estimate and mean wage estimates for Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists:
LinkedIn Workforce Report, United States, December 2021
Over 180 million workers in the U.S. have LinkedIn profiles; over 97,000 companies in the U.S. use LinkedIn to recruit and members can add over 38,000 skills to their profiles to showcase their professional brands. That gives us unique and valuable insight into U.S. workforce trends.
Roundtable: How Corrections Was Challenged in 2021
Staff recruitment and retention have remained critical obstacles, but there are still strategies organizations can employ to gain the upper hand in 2022. We asked several Corrections1 columnists and contributors to share what they thought were the biggest challenges of 2021 along with advice on how to address these issues in 2022.