All Entries in the "Employees" Category
How Business Owners can Fight Rising Fraud
“Back office” and other types of financial fraud are rising at U.S. companies, and are hitting small businesses especially hard. Fraud experts point to the lingering effects of recession, cutbacks that have eliminated financial checks and balances at many businesses, and simple complacency as key reasons. According to Joseph Wells, a CPA and founder of [...]
A Foolproof Framework for Hiring Perfect People
Here’s a motto every small business should live buy: Hasty hiring brings frequent firing. For most business owners, the hiring “process” includes posting a job opening, sorting resumes and hiring the first person who makes a god impression. But the consequences of poor choices can be severe. If you keep an unproductive person on, you’re [...]
How to Defuse Workplace Conflicts
Workplace conflicts can sap energy from any small business. Whether it involves employees, vendors or contractors, getting such issues resolved is critical to smooth sailing. Business managers overall spend an estimated 40 percent of their time dealing with conflicts both big and small. That’s just normal, since disagreements, disputes and honest differences exist everywhere. For [...]
How to Create a Winning Business Culture
When a once-growing business stumbles, the cause is sometimes an overlooked culprit: the company culture. Many good businesses with solid ideas, a great market and talented people start to lose their grip on growth after failing to win victories that seemed within grasp. Slowly, the “win or die trying” mentality gives way to deciding how [...]
A New Dental Discount Plan for Small Business
When it comes to offering a dental insurance plan as an employee benefit, most small business owners have to pass on affordability grounds. Cheap or low-cost dental plans are nowhere to be found. But low-cost, easy-access dental discounts plans are something worth chewing on, and a newly launched service called Brighter is providing a way [...]
A Cheap and Easy Time and Attendance Solution
Small businesses that use remote workers, independent contractors or other off-site employees need a time and attendance or time clock service that they can log into at any time and see when their workers punched in for the day. Labor Time Tracker (LTT) is an easy-to-use, web-based (cloud computing) employee time and attendance service that [...]
5 New Keys to Cutting Small Business Health Insurance Costs
Health insurance remains as expensive, confusing and out-of-reach for most small businesses as ever. If your business already has a health insurance plan, you probably know that costs keep rising. And if you don’t, all of the talk about health insurance reform so far has probably only made your business even more befuddled. And now [...]
Essential Guide to Hiring Teens for Summer Jobs
About four million teenagers will hold summer jobs in the U.S. this year. If you plan to be among the millions of small business owners who provide those jobs it’s important to know the special rules that govern teenage workers. Government statistics show that young workers suffer a disproportionate share of on-the-job injuries. According to [...]
Rules and Benefits of Employee Credit Cards
Sooner or later, growing businesses face this decision: Should certain employees have their own company credit cards? While many biz owners are psychologically opposed to issuing plastic to employees, business credit cards can actually be big time and money savers. They greatly reduce the number of checks you have to write, provide detailed and itemized [...]
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