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How a Professional Employer Organization Can Help Your Startup

Starting a business is no easy task. The range of possibilities for new opportunities in today’s modern world is staggering, particularly with the presence of consistently evolving technology. Small business owners are constantly under pressure...

byGreg Packer

July 12, 2021

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: The Importance of Offering Health Care to Employees (Episode 232)

On today's Business Beat, Jeff discusses the increasing importance of having a health care plan for your employees — and how it can be the difference in employee retention and productivity. He also shares findings...

byStartupNation

June 2, 2021

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Study Shows Small Businesses Put Employees First (Episode 216)

On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff discusses the recently released Small Business Recovery Report conducted by Kabbage, an American Express Company. When asked which milestone would best indicate their business has recovered from the pandemic,...

byStartupNation

April 28, 2021

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Forbes List of the World’s Best Employers to Work For (Episode 192)

On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares Forbes' list of "The Worlds Best Employers," which compiled survey data from more than 160,000 full-time and part-time workers from 58 countries. Which three companies topped the...

byStartupNation

March 12, 2021

The Case for Testing Your Company’s Potential New Hires

The following is adapted from “Fireproof” by Mike Morse Not many people enjoy taking tests when applying for a new job. They aren’t used to it, and assessments, whether for IQ, behavioral tendencies, cognitive skills,...

byMike Morse

March 11, 2021

3 Things Testing for Emotional Intelligence Can Reveal About Your Law Firm’s Employees

The following is adapted from “Fireproof” by Mike Morse Have you ever wondered why some lawyers excel at attracting and keeping clients? How some have a knack for communicating or consistently make ethical decisions? The...

byMike Morse

February 24, 2021

Why Your Employees Are Your Best Marketing Asset

For many startups, marketing is a problem. Even the word can send shivers through a founder’s spine. It conjures up images of expensive PR companies and slick advertising, big glitzy campaigns and gimmicky launch events....

bySharon Fishburne

March 4, 2018

What Your Startup Needs to Do to Stay Compliant in the New Year

With 2018 right around the corner, as businesses wind down Q4 by conducting the year-in-reviews, they’re also gearing up their to-do lists in order to maintain compliance in the New Year. Whether you just started...

byMyCorporation

December 11, 2017

What You Need to Know About Taxes Before Starting a Business

Starting a business requires time and preparation, and preparing to meet tax obligations can affect many of the steps you must take when you open your business. In fact, you must deal with several items...

byJohn Milikowsky

April 18, 2017

Should Your Startup Hire an HR Firm?

Most small business owners understand the frustration of spending time on non-revenue generating activities. Be it recruiting and compensation or benefits and training, managers and directors can spend a significant proportion of their workweek engaged...

byTracy Collins Ortlieb

December 4, 2016

Staff: How to Find the Right People to Accelerate Your Startup

In the early stages of building a startup, your staff is everything. They are responsible for your output, set the company culture and can be the missing ingredient needed to take your business from fledgling...

byVeronica Pembleton

October 29, 2016

Retaining Good Staff [Infographic]

Employees are the backbone of a business, so it is important that they remain satisfied in their job. As many employers have faced losing their best employees, Instant Offices has come up with an infographic outlining...

byInstant Offices

June 1, 2016

Hiring the Right Person:12 Tips for Your Start-up

12 Tips for Hiring the Right Person for your Start-up Managing a start-up would force any one to take on different job descriptions. One of these new challenges would be learning to become a manager...

byKhalid Saleh

August 11, 2015

Employee Recruitment Strategies Have to be Blend of the Old and the New

Blending old and new employee recruitment strategies ManpowerGroup Solutions Recruitment Process Outsourcing, the global leader in the industry within ManpowerGroup, asserts that recruiters must have a broad set of hard and soft skills to attract...

byLioness Magazine

December 10, 2014

Why every startup should have a baby boomer on the team

Startups and Baby Boomers: What's the connection? American Express’s Open Forum has advised that companies may want to hire an older worker over a younger one because of their “strong work ethic, loyalty and communications...

byYaniv Vardi

November 24, 2014

Your employees represent YOU

My fiance Suzanne and I went to a movie last week and wanted to purchase the tickets before grabbing a quick dinner prior to the show. It was a boutique theater that plays "artsy" films...

byJoel Welsh

June 23, 2005