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Can I Just Hire Someone and Then… Just Pay Them?
Ok, your plumbing business continues to grow and you need to hire more staff. Can it be as simple as… just hire someone and then… just pay them? Actually, it can be pretty simple; following these basic...
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Increase Employee Awareness of the Dangers of Distracted Driving
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month--this observance is to draw attention to the dangers of distracted driving. So what is distracted driving? According to the U.S. Department of Transportation...
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How Do I Know How to Classify Employees vs Contractors or Exempt vs...
The following is an excerpt from our latest guide, "A Business Owner's Guide to HR: Is There a Better Way?"Employee or Contractor?Misclassifying individuals may open your organization to a number of...
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Using a Dashboard to Improve Decision Making Effectiveness
How does your organization make its most important decisions? Executives may provide widely different answers, pointing to their industry or company size as explanation, but organizations that find...
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How Do I Hire and Retain The Right People?
The following is an excerpt from our latest guide, "A Business Owner's Guide to HR: Is There a Better Way?"There are a number of best practices that can help you do a better job of hiring. These...
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[Upcoming Webinar] Cultivating Leadership for Business Success
Think of what makes a great leader... how would you describe him or her? (Hint: it doesn't mean being bossy or micromanaging--it's all about advancing a team’s ability to improve the business.) It’s...
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Matching Your Employees’ Benefits Expectations With Your Budget
You offer benefits because you want to provide a well-rounded compensation package. That’s a smart approach, because recent research indicates that more than 75% of employees say a benefits package is...
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What Sort of Benefits Program Should I Offer?
The following is an excerpt from our latest guide, "A Business Owner's Guide to HR: Is There a Better Way?"You offer benefits because you want to provide a well-rounded compensation package. What may...
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What Employers Need to Know About Leaves of Absence
Have you ever found yourself asking the following question: “My employee has been off work for an injury – do I have to hold his job?”As an employer or manager, you manage both people and operations......
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There’s More to HR than Payroll, Benefits and Workers’ Comp
Many employers and contractors may have already made the move toward outsourcing payroll services, employee benefits and/or workers’ compensation/risk management. How many, though, realize that these...
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What Can I do to Improve my Employee Retention Rate?
Nobody wants to work at a revolving door organization. Staff retention should be a concern for all employers, not only from a cost standpoint but also for the positive impact it has on employee morale...
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[Upcoming Webinar] Avoiding Major Pitfalls of Recruiting & Hiring
Recruiting and hiring has the potential to be a challenging part of running a business. You advertise a job opening, screen applications and resumes to determine if the applicants have the experience...
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How Does an SMB Owner Attract Top Talent?
It seems like most of the conversations about recruiting top “A level” talent are written by and for large businesses with seemingly unlimited recruitment budgets. How can a small- to mid-sized...
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What's the Best Way to Handle Payroll and Payroll Reporting?
The following is an excerpt from our latest guide, "A Business Owner's Guide to HR: Is There a Better Way?"Payroll is the HR area that affects both employee and employer most directly. However,...
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I Know Risk Management is Important But How Can I Afford it?
The following is an excerpt from our latest guide, "A Business Owner's Guide to HR: Is There a Better Way?"Workplace safety is too important for employers to overlook. With nearly 3 million nonfatal...
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[Upcoming Webinar] DOL New Overtime Rule
The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued its final ruling regarding the changes to pay regulations for exempt employees, which may have a serious impact on the way most employers pay their employees....
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How to get a Chronically Late Employee Back on Schedule
Most managers have dealt at some point with employees who don’t seem to be able to get to work on time. Sometimes, after the employee runs out of excuses about traffic, alarms, car trouble or even...
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[Upcoming Webinar] Importance of a Return to Work Program
A Return to Work (RTW) program is designed to get injured, disabled or temporarily impaired workers back on the job as soon as medically possible. A RTW program has many great benefits for both you...
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HR Technology: Determining the Best Time and Attendance Technology
It’s an excellent time for businesses to re-consider which time and attendance technology it is, or isn’t, using as new processes and systems emerge. With the recent rule change from theUS Department...
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Smokers Have “Protections” in Employment??
Smoking is the largest cause of preventable illness and death in the United States. It is estimated that workers who smoke each cost their employers $5,800 a year, and can range from $2,885 to $10,125...
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