Year: 2023

The benefits you offer your employees, along with your compensation package, are an integral part of attracting the best talent. Without good benefits, top talent will pass you by. How you manage these benefits can affect employee retention and satisfaction. It can also have a noticeable effect on your bottom…

You might feel obligated to handle your company’s accounting yourself to stay in the loop with a hands-on approach. But there are many benefits to utilizing an outside company to manage your accounting services instead. Once you bring one on board, you may wonder why you didn’t do so sooner!…

Tax strategies are an important way for businesses to save money. This holds double for smaller enterprises that need to focus all their resources on growth and success. Yet many companies ignore the financial benefits of tactical planning to prepare for the next business tax year. The best time to…

Human resources departments are a vital part of any successful business. No enterprise with an eye toward growth should operate without professionals trained to handle employee processes. Yet not all businesses can devote the resources to build the quality HR department they need. Outsourcing human resources can offer the answer.…

Now that we are all 3 years out from the start of the global pandemic that spurred mass transition to remote work – what do we know about how well it works for both employees & employers? Remote work did exist before 2020, but the forced transition during the pandemic…

Unfortunately, there may come a time that an owner needs to reduce costs by reducing the level of staffing. Making that decision is certainly a difficult one, but next comes the choice of which route to go – a furlough, a layoff, or a reduction in force (RIF). Following are…

National unemployment is hovering around 3.6%. In the southwest region, it can be even lower, with Arizona and New Mexico at 3.5% and Utah at a somewhat unfathomable 2.4%. Typically, experts in the economy and in human resources consider “full employment” to actually be at about 5% unemployment. This is…