Posts Tagged ‘Employees’
Revenues and Profits Are Not the Same
You can’t assume an increase in revenues leads to increased profits. Sometimes an increase in revenues has no effect or a negative effect on profits.
Read More Businesses Giving Back to Military Community
As the United States continues to disentangle itself from its post-9/11 military commitments in the Middle East, large numbers of veterans are returning stateside…
Read More Growing Pains: The Top 4 Challenges Small Businesses Face
Running a business is like rowing a boat upstream. Once you stop rowing, you start to slip backwards. When the company is growing, owners have to be rowing furiously to get the next deal, to sign the next contract, to hire the next A player.
Read More Problems with Staff Getting Along
Frequently you have to deal with staff members who do not get along. This is one of those things that is just part of human nature. However, you cannot ignore these problems because they will only get worse with time.
Read More Will I Benefit from Offering Health Insurance?
Since the Affordable Health Care Act took effect, more small businesses are now required to provide health coverage for their employees. As competition grows in nearly every area for small businesses, having a drawing card like great health benefits can bring in the best employees that might not look at smaller companies otherwise.
Read More True Story: How I Took on New Employees for my Startup
Back in 1993, Palo Alto Software had been mostly consulting with a stubborn insistence on software products that were not paying for themselves (yet). I was troubled with the risk and fixed cost of hiring people to help with my then-fledgling software company.
Read More Why Self-Evaluation and Job Descriptions Matter Even More for Startups
One of the most challenging aspects of working for a startup is also the thing that makes it so exciting. As the company grows, roles and structures change. For better or for worse, your job description can change dramatically in mere months.
Read More What do Bosses Owe Their Employees?
When I was an Army officer, there were three things that you had to make sure you never screwed up for your soldiers: their pay, their food, and their mail. Why? It was, as they say, the very least you could do for them. As an employer, what do you absolutely have to get right for your people?
Read More The Independent Contractor Ranks Are Growing
The number of workers identifying themselves as “independent contractors” is growing in the United States. In 2005 the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics determined that the number of independent contractors rose from 6.4% of the workforce in 2001 to 27.4% of the workforce by 2005. In 2010, Navigant Economics claimed the following:
Read More Employee Retention in a Franchise Business
Businesses where higher-level employee skills are integral to the business typically need to place a higher emphasis on employee retention than businesses where training new employees is less costly.
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