Working away from the office as millions are sent home has become a necessary and essential skill for everyone. As the virus spreads, businesses throughout the world are shutting down and companies are shifting employees to work at home. Remote Work Pros But even before this crisis, between 2005 and 2017, working at home was […]
Need to Telecommute? Use These Tech Tools for Optimized Remote Work
Mastering the art of working remotely can come with many challenges. To begin, let’s take a look at an excerpt from Remote: Office Not Required by John Fried & David Heinemeir, the founders of Basecamp. It reads, “When the bulk of your communication happens via email and the like, it doesn’t take much for bad […]
How To Protect Your Business From Data Fraud
By October 2020, every American brick-and-mortar merchant will be required to use chip transactions. Failure to do so will result in the brand being liable for any fraud that results. Why is this? Chip cards reduce the rate of counterfeit payments received. In 2019, 99% of American payments were processed on chip cards; and during […]
The Email Economy: Using Email Responsiveness To Build Trust
Over 10 years ago Fast Company declared email to be dead and in the years to follow this sentiment would be proclaimed by the Wall Street Journal, the CEO of Evernote in The Telegraph and Fobes, but is email really dead? Almost to the contrary, email is more alive than ever and in the next […]
Keep Your Business Tech Safe Against These Smartphone Myths
Nearly all American adults own a cellphone, so it’s likely your smartphone is your sidekick in a lot of mobile business you tend to: conference calls, emailing, and more. Smartphones come in a wide variety, but all share the commonality of expense, often costing over $1,000. Besides, there’s nothing like the attachment you grow for […]
The Millennial Workforce is Reshaping Healthcare
Traditionally speaking, and since the 1940s, American employees held the general expectation of receiving health care through employment. These expectations are quickly fading as younger generations are remodeling the job market and the way we work. The increasing stability of the gig economy has also influenced the shift in the job economy. Because of this, […]
The History of Phishing and How to Remain Protected
Although the earliest forms of electronic mail trace back to 1965, e-mail was never intended to be secure. That is, however, because there was never anything to secure email from. The service of electronic mail lingered problem-free until the infancy of spam, and later, phishing. Today, 92% of malware is delivered via email; simultaneously, spam […]
Using Technology to Gateway into Entrepreneurship
Your knowledge is unique to you, something no one can ever take away from you. Saying this, your knowledge can be one of your most beneficial assets in a plethora of scenarios. When finances are a burden, or if you simply have the desire to test the waters of entrepreneurship, consider capitalizing off your brain […]
Developing Leadership Skills as a Small Business Owner
Leadership is a crucial skill to develop when you own a small business. Oftentimes small business owners feel the weight of the world on their shoulders and it can show in their management tendencies. Instead of trusting the people they hired to get the job done, they micromanage and obsess about getting everything perfect, often […]
The Growing Problem of Employee Turnover
Reducing Turnover with Better Benefits Employee turnover is a costly problem and that cost is on the rise. Currently turnover costs $600 billion annually, but by 2020 that figure will balloon to $680 billion. What’s behind this rising business cost and what can businesses do to prevent it? The Strength of the Jobs Market is […]
