LANSING - Telecommuting offers numerous positives for both employers and employees. A few of those benefits include increasing employee productivity due to fewer distractions, improving employee satisfaction and retention rates, saving employee commuting costs, and offering employees more flexibility with their schedule. According to Global Workplace Analytics, a San Diego-based consulting firm that specializes in
LANSING - The news cycle is getting shorter and our attention span is getting smaller. Native advertising is starting to replace traditional news stories and news rooms are shrinking making it more difficult to get our stories out, build our brands or protect our reputation. At the same time, technology is expanding and with a website,
LANSING - On Monday evening, House Republicans introduced legislation that seeks to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The single most important thing to remember, at least at this moment in time, is that until the Affordable Care Act is not the law of the land, it is the law of the land.
LANSING - Office equipment acts as the guts of your business, making your day-to-day operations possible. The energy needed to power your office equipment certainly comes at a price - representing about 19 percent of total office building expenditures. For Michigan, energy consumption of office equipment alone is between 12-15 percent of total electricity use.
LANSING - According to Global Workforce Analytics 3.7 million employees now work from home at least half the time. In addition, Gallup reports that 37 percent of US workers say they have telecommuted at some point in their career. This is four times greater than just 9 percent back in 1995. With the growing population
LANSING - Michael Rogers, communications officer for the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks with Tom Olive, president of Crystal Flash, a small company that provides energy to customers across the Great Lakes region. Tom discusses their employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), implemented in 2016 when the Fehsenfeld family decided to transition their interest in
GRAND RAPIDS - You expand your product and service portfolio. Upgrade your IT tools and technology. Refresh your facilities. Isn’t it time you thought about an extreme communication makeover? Join us to learn the five things you should do now (and a few things you should stop doing) to ramp up your communications to grow
LANSING - President Trump is considering an Executive Order to modify the current H-1B system. During his candidacy he expressed the view that the H-1B system was subject to abuse and needed revamping. “These are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay,” Candidate Trump
LANSING - Last Friday President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) which banned travel from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days and suspended all refugee admission for 120 days. The seven countries are Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. This suspension will remain in place until April 27. The Department of Homeland Security
LANSING - Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency will be sending out its annual Form 6367 mailing to employers that have fallen behind in their required claims reporting. This form is relatively new only having been used for the first time in 2016. If your organization receives a Form 6367 it means the UIA has found them
