With Thanksgiving and Black Friday rapidly approaching, seasonal hiring, primarily by retailers, is shaping up to reach its highest level since the heady dot-com days of 1999--the last time seasonal hires exceeded 800,000 workers nationwide. So reports consulting firm Challenger Gray and Christmas.

There was a time when long-term loyalty to one organization was looked upon as a strong selling point on a resume–and in a prospective hire. Today, however, when most employees will work for an average of eight different companies during the course of their career (or careers), mobility and flexibility are in some ways more marketable skills. So reports the Financial Times.

In a sign that the nation's economy is finally emerging from under the shadow of the Great Recession, monthly job cuts in September fell to their lowest level since 2000. So reports Fortune.

It seemed an odd pairing from the get-go. Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian.