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The latest official unemployment rate is 3.9%. Finding competent, productive employees is tough. Keeping them is even tougher.   Your employees are your second family, the office is their second home. Too many employers ignore the working environment of their employees. When employees are happy, the company benefits with high productivity. Happy employees start with a great office [...]

Nearly 70 percent of people work remotely at least once a week. And nearly 53 percent have worked away from the office half of the week.  Telecommuting–or working away from the office–is a growing trend for good reason. Technology has made it so that we’re always connected no matter where we’re located.  This gives employers [...]

It’s estimated that drug addiction costs the US economy around $80 billion a year.  If you own a small business, then any decrease in productivity or sales due to addiction could be very damaging. Many businesses , but that won’t always prevent you from employing an addict.  So how can you tell if you have an [...]

Ask around to your employees and you’ll find a shockingly high number of them feel unmotivated when it comes to getting work done. There are so many distractions and ways that employees feel exhausted and overworked at the end of a week, that they need to feel appreciated. With the right employee reward ideas, you [...]

You may have noticed that the vast majority of startups operate exclusively online. Office space in New York and San Francisco can average $5-6 per square foot to rent. Other big cities aren’t much better, especially for a company with 10 or more employees. Many businesses, old and new, are transitioning to coworking experience. What [...]