On the economic front, a labor group forecast that workers whose jobs were affected by the collapse could lose annual wages totaling $6.7 billion, while their employers' lost revenue could total almost $17 billion over the course of a year.
With snow on the mountaintops and heavy rain in the forecast, rescue workers said today that hope was fading for finding the remaining victims of the flash floods that may have claimed up to 16 lives on Thursday in the San Bernardino Mountains.
In March, with a major snowstorm forecast overnight, 39 workers chose to spend the night at the University.
Each letter carrier would be responsible for two routes instead of one, coinciding with the expected 50 percent rate of attrition forecast for postal workers over the next 10 years.
Sprint, which has about 42,000 workers, forecast a charge of $60 million to $80 million in its fourth quarter for severance payments and other costs related to the latest round of layoffs, which follows 8,000 job cuts earlier this year.
You would think that a restaurant or retailer would have access to sufficient data on past sales to accurately forecast how many workers are needed on a daily (or hourly) basis far enough in advance to set a reliable schedule, yet they cannot get the forecast right all the time.
And Nasscom, which helps companies wanting to outsource find workers, forecasts a shortage of 500,000 professional employees in the technology sector by 2010.
Up until now, most talent marketplaces have been based around demand forecast models, in which workers are matched with clients as needed, whether that means getting a vehicle to a certain part of a city or a meal to a home.
They have also cut profit forecasts, laid off nonstaff workers and delayed investment in new factories.
Despite dystopian forecasts of robots replacing workers, AI and intelligent tools can also be applied to make the workforce more inclusive.
