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Firing someone is never a fun job. However, if you’re a small business owner, or even a manager, you’ll most likely have to do it at least once. The important part is to learn when and how to go about it.

Owning a small business and managing a staff provide you with perfect opportunities to increase your and your employees’ knowledge.

Employee handbooks don’t have to be a thing you and your employees dread. If you get your workers involved and present your policies in an exciting way, you’ll all enjoy the process.

Overseeing an entire staff can be a trying ordeal, but if you show your employees respect and make them feel comfortable, they’ll happily work under you.

While telecommuting might save a company money, it can also lead to a lack of bonding between coworkers. Try implementing methods, such as video conferencing and social media pages, to make them feel a part of the team.

In order to make the most of your meetings, establish a pre-determined list of points to discuss during a specified time limit.

Deciding on an open space or a sectioned off office can be a difficult decision, but if you consider what kind of business you’re running and what goes along with each layout, the choice will be easier.

When it comes to your employees, all employers want someone they can trust and who will do the job well.

Working from home can be difficult, but if you plan your day and keep the lines of communication open, the process will go smoothly.

We all need to work, but we don’t all necessarily want to work. That’s why it’s important for employers to create a comfortable and motivated work environment

For those of us who have entered the workforce, stress is no stranger. However, we don’t need to let it control our lives. 

The old way of catalogs and newspaper advertisements is out and digital marketing is in.

Nothing hurts productivity more than a negative work environment. If your employees aren’t happy, you’ll know.

Small business owners know that their financial plan is highly contingent upon their employees, who many describe as the lifeblood of a company’s economic strength In other words, without them, the goals that entrepreneurs set out to achieve wouldn’t be possible.

A somewhat controversial subject matter for small business owners is the minimum wage and how it can be worked into their financial plan.

This year it is easier than ever for people to market their services through a number of channels, so how do you tell a different story than everyone else selling a product in 2015?

More than half of job seekers – 55 percent – say they would move to a new country if doing so would enable them to find their dream job, based on a recent survey done by employment search engine Monster Worldwide.

In a poll of 2,200 company managers and 3,100 employees, 25 percent of employers said that they have dealt with a worker who faked their illness, CareerBuilder.com reported.

Among the costliest sources of damage in the winter is wet snow that can pile up on rooftops. According to the Insurance Information Institute, roof cave-ins contribute to winter weather being the third-largest cause of insured catastrophe losses, averaging $1.2 billion per year in the past two decades.

Though the year may be young, the economy is doing pretty well compared to recent years. The private sector has seen 58 consecutive months of uninterrupted job growth, and the nation’s unemployment rate is at 5.6 percent, according to the Labor Department, a near seven-year low.

t’s pretty difficult to fit winning the lottery into your financial plan, as hitting the jackpot is a one in a million shot. But based on a new poll, the vast majority of people employees would continue to work if they struck it rich, which is good news for small business owners who rely on their staff.

While health officials encourage workers to stay home if their sick, many are spurning this advice and reporting to work nonetheless, creating issues for business owners, a new poll suggests.

It’s 2015, and a considerable number of business owners believe that hiring more workers this year is the best financial plan they can make, based on the results of a recent survey.

Most countries vacation a lot more often than the U.S., so a lot of vacation time may seem a bit weird. However, ever since Richard Branson announced his company will be experimenting with unlimited vacation, the idea has caught on.

A successful small business depends on many things, one being the tools that are utilized.