Thinking About the Road Ahead: The first quarter of the year is when many people begin to plan out their goals and New Year’s resolutions of what they hope to accomplish the rest of the year. This requires them to reflect on their personal and professional goals, which leads to determining what their priorities ...
The Challenge: Owning and operating a small business is incredibly rewarding, but it’s not without its challenges… Small business owners wear many different hats. Often, they play the lead role in many areas that larger companies have entire departments to manage. With so much individual responsibility, it’s easy to get lost in daily ...
AVOIDING THE BIG PHISH: Running a – tight ship – is difficult, but it can be rewarding when you’re able to steer your vessel in the right direction and get to your destination without any issues. But ask anyone who plays an important role in running an organization and ...
The workplace has changed immensely over the last few years. Not only has there been a change in how we work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there – has also been a much greater focus on diversity and inclusion. Although there is still work to be done, many organizations are making strides in advocating for ...
Hire Payroll Medics to Take Care of All Your Payroll Stress in 2020 As you look ahead to 2020, you’re likely thinking about ways to make your business run more efficiently. As business owners the goal is for us to work “on” our businesses as opposed to “in” our businesses. One way that you can ...
Workers’ compensation insurance is a requirement for most business owners, but it’s something that often brings with it a large amount of stress. Sure, you want to protect your employees in the event of a workplace injury, but you also want to ensure that you’re not overpaying or underpaying for insurance, which could result in ...
Here at Payroll Medics, our trusted advisors are often asked tough HR questions and we wanted to share a recent HR Q&A with you. In general, yes, employers may require the use of vacation/paid time off (PTO) and restrict its use. We always recommend you check for state and local paid sick leave laws, restrictions ...
Right now, in workplaces across the country, people are going about their jobs, seemingly content, but deep down feeling the ache of loneliness. They aren’t necessarily working alone or all by themselves with no one to talk to. They may be chatting amicably with customers on the phone or in person. Or they may work ...
The recipe for workplace conflict is decidedly simple: bring two or more people together and assign them a task. Unless the stars have aligned in your favor, there’s going to be some cause for disagreement between them, and if conflict ensues, their ability to cooperate will suffer. Regrettably, too often employers tolerate unresolved conflict because ...
To often, behavioral problems and poor performance can be detrimental to the bottom line and many employers want to be rid of problematic employees ASAP. Small businesses in particular may not feel that they have the time or money to work on correcting bad behavior or improving poor performance. Additional supervision alone can be costly ...
