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Employees Are Satisfied With Their Jobs: Or Are They?

Featured in Employment Trends

How do your employees feel about their jobs? For a small business owner, the answer to this question is crucial. Employees who are happy at work and passionately engaged with their jobs are more loyal to their employers, more productive and just plain better for your business. A recent study of…

11 Places to Find Startup Talent

Recruiting startup talent can be a daunting task, especially if you have no idea where to look. You might be on a budget, but you want to make sure you have a qualified pool from which to choose. So where do you start? There are a few members of the YEC community well versed in such matters. We…

Implement Year Round Benefits Communication

Many small businesses with limited staff use the open enrollment period as the one and only time they discuss benefits with employees. This activity, though necessary, can prove to be overwhelming for the staff to comprehend large amounts of benefits information all at once. Small businesses…

11 Red Flags Startups Should Avoid When Hiring

Getting to a point where it’s time to hire employees is a huge milestone for startups. But there are lots of things to consider when looking to hire someone to join your startup team, including whether or not that person’s goals are in line with the company goals and how good a fit the…

Will There Be a Shortage of Small Business Tech Workers in 2012?

Does your small business rely on high-tech workers to compete? You’re not alone. Increasingly, being up to speed on technology is crucial to business success, which means you need a savvy tech team in-house. But hiring those tech workers might be getting harder—and the risks of making a bad…

Is Your Business Planning to Hire in 2012?

American Express OPEN recently took a look back at its past 10 years’ worth of Small Business Monitor surveys, with a particular focus on hiring. The resulting new report, Trends in Small Business Hiring: 2002-2011, hones in on business owners’ responses when asked whether they plan to hire…

One Person You Could Add to Your Team to Change Your Bottom Line

There’s freedom in creativity–that’s why artists live there. They crave it; they feel like they drown without it. In this regard, entrepreneurs are little different — they want freedom, too. While discussing the difference between a franchisor and an entrepreneur in…

What Do Your Millennial Employees Really Want?

What do Millennials in the work force really want? One thing is loud and clear: They want their Facebook, Twitter and smartphones—and if your business doesn’t give them what they want, they’ll find an employer that will. That’s a major finding from the second annual “Cisco Connected…

Declaration of Independents

Are you an “independent worker?” Maybe you call yourself a freelancer, independent contractor, solopreneur or self-employed. Recently, MBO Partners surveyed workers from this growing group, which they define as people who work at least 15 hours per week in nontraditional, nonpermanent…

What’s Wrong With Your Employees?

Do your employees seem a little—well, lackluster—lately? Have you noticed they just don’t seem to have the enthusiasm they used to? It’s not just your imagination. A recent Gallup poll found that 71 percent of American workers are either “not engaged” or “actively…

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