Business Operations

Guest post by Elena Stewart   Small business owners are struggling. 22 percent of small business owners say they’re within eight weeks of closing permanently, and more than half are worried [...]

BACKGROUND The Corona Virus 2019 problem is real.  Businesses are closed, workers are told to work remotely, social distancing is being enacted– people are genuinely not sure of what is [...]

We have written several articles about working from home and working remotely.  The Corona virus scare has caused many companies, schools and institutions to review how they actually perform the [...]

This is a guest post by Tina Martin. Your home is where you eat, sleep, and relax, but it can be where you work as well. In fact, according to Fit Small Business, half of all businesses in the [...]

BACKGROUND Employee retention is one the key factors that businesses have challenges with today.  It makes no difference what business you are in, being able to retain and motivate employees [...]

Background A friend called the other day and said that Thanksgiving was cancelled– she called and told her whole family after many had made long distance travel arrangements to come and [...]

Millennial workers prefer to work in a quiet, private environment as opposed to the “Open Office” concept that appears in vogue today.  In fact, most workers DO NOT like to work out [...]

A telecommuter called our office the other day with the title to this post.  His boss, whom he had  a good relationship with, had all of a sudden “changed the rules” on him, after [...]

Retaining good employees is critical in today’s dynamic environment.  Having a good employee ensures that the company will function well.  What happens when human resources makes a “bad [...]

A manager in a small business recently commented to us she was frustrated because the firm principals were disappointed that the business was not seeing sales improvement and profitability [...]