Telecommuting: Pros and Cons
Viable telecommuting programs require clear policies, advance trouble-shooting, and unconventional management styles. But they can pay off in happier, more productive workers.
Viable telecommuting programs require clear policies, advance trouble-shooting, and unconventional management styles. But they can pay off in happier, more productive workers.
You’ve heard all about it, but how can you make job sharing serve your business interests? Here are basic ways and long-term tips to ensure that you have two productive job sharers who are each happier than they were before.
A workplace wellness program can help to keep your employees happy and healthy, causing a "ripple effect" throughout your company.
In the ever-busy world of entrepreneurial business, we are always at work or thinking about work. Where else are we going to meet people who share our interests? Should we date our co-workers or allow our employees to date each other? How do we keep it from interfering with work?
In an ever-changing market, you might need to consider temporary staff. Done right, a few well-chosen folks could not only pull you through a busy time, but also become prescreened permanent staff.
Employee handbooks should be more than just a pile of photocopies you thrust at a new hire. Handbooks provide a common framework for communicating your corporate culture. If used properly, they can protect you legally as well.
You’ve heard of JIT to use warehouse space better and to deliver goods to customers more efficiently. Can it work for your operation? How do you implement it?
Are you looking out for violence at work? You should be. Avoid both minor calamities and major tragedies by identifying risky behaviors and implementing a plan of preventive action.
Partnerships can leverage your resources and tap new opportunities.
How satisfied are your customers? Use these tips on question phrasing and layout to maximize the response rate and the value of the results when you prepare and apply a written customer survey.