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Should a Small Business Offer Paid Parental Leave
Despite passing the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in 1993, which allows employees to take 12 weeks of unpaid leave from their work before returning to their position, the U.S. is the only developed nation not to guarantee their working mothers salary during the time they take off from work after a childbirth.
How Many Innovations Are Carefully Planned?
Most innovations come from responding to a customer’s needs, or finding a niche where products need improvement or extension. It is rare to innovate using a blank sheet of paper in a room with bare walls and no other contributors.
Do Interns Secretly Run the World’s Largest Tech Companies?
In today’s booming tech environment, leading innovators recognize interns as the future of their companies. That’s why they’re willing to pay them premium compensation, offer them extravagant perks, and let them actually get their hands dirty and work.
5 Things Your Small Biz Should Be Doing Yesterday
As a small business owner, it is important to keep up on the latest trends in order to keep up with the competition, and not fall behind with your customers. As technology rapidly advances, 2014 will likely be a year of exciting changes and developments in the world of business.
Gather the Support You’ll Need as Your Business Grows
Change happens. Finding or creating the support you need for a changing business can be daunting, but if you establish a steady support system at home, recognize your own shortcomings, and remain flexible, it’s much easier.
Looking to Improve Your Fitness Club? We Have Some Advice!
Are you effectively managing your fitness studio? Since a fitness studio centers on customer service, it’s important to maintain a hands-on approach.
Documenting Your Workflow: How and Why
One of the 7 Business New Year’s Resolutions we recommended last month involved documenting your workflow. Putting each step of your workflow into writing (or recording it in some other fashion) can make a big difference in how smoothly your company runs.
Hiring People with Disabilities
There are roughly 54 million people in our country with disabilities of all types, and surveys show the rate of unemployment for this group is twice that of the overall workforce.
5 Tips for Designing a Corporate Wellness Program
Corporate wellness cannot be treated as a band-aid, and you definitely won’t be able to find it in a fitness app. Engagement, motivation, support and strategy are the keys to a successful program.
I-9 Forms: Do’s and Don’ts
Employers are required to complete and retain a Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) for all new hires. On March 8, 2013, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a revised version of the I-9. Employers must begin using the new version by May 7, 2013. The updated I-9 provides employers with an opportunity to review their employment eligibility verification practices. In this Tip, we provide some do’s and don’ts for completing and retaining the I-9 form.
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