According to an Apparel magazine executive survey, the number one top of mind industry issue is “reduce product cost to improve margin.” While we should always be looking for ways to reduce product costs (and costs in general), more savings are likely to come from better processes, such as design and development,...
Published: Feb 15, 2014
If businesses are to thrive in today’s economy, then finding and retaining qualified employees must be a top priority. Frequent turnover can damage a company’s productivity, negatively affect employee morale, increase costs, and damage overall organizational performance. Conversely, retaining skilled workers...
Published: Aug 23, 2012
The travel, hospitality and tourism industries have been some of the fastest growing sectors in the world. Deloitte has predicted that tourism alone will be worth more than £257 billion to the UK economy by 2025!
Fierce competition, business pressures and the disruption caused by social media are making all...
Published: Oct 03, 2017
Everyone on an organization’s accounts payable staff has important activities to perform that add substantial value – for example, expanding discount capture, driving compliance, or vendor management. In order to free up time for staffmembers to conduct such activities, it is important that accounts payable...
Published: May 01, 2013
In this report, Microsoft delve into how small and medium sized businesses engage and interact with their customers, and share best practice on what it is that growing companies are doing differently to succeed.
Download now to find out how your business measures up, and ultimately learn how you can improve customer...
Published: May 11, 2016
The threshold issue to address in determining whether ERISA, which stands for the Employee Retirement Security Income Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001, et seq., governs employee benefit plans or claims is to determine whether or not a “plan” exists within the meaning of the ERISA statute. It has been...
Published: Apr 12, 2015
Every business wants to operate a safe workplace. While some workplaces are more dangerous than others -- a warehouse vs. an office, for example -- most businesses have experienced some sort of accident in the workplace. According to OSHA, businesses pay nearly one billion dollars a week in workers' compensation costs...
Published: Jan 01, 2013
Tips for Managing Employees Working from Home, Copyright ®, All Rights Reserved. 1Telecommuting. Working from home. Remote employees. Regardless to what it is called, working from anywhere other than the company office is becoming increasingly popular for employees and employers alike. The ability for more employers...
Published: Mar 09, 2014
Despite all the ideas, all of the online advice guides and all of the talks at various conferences, content marketers still face huge challenges in making sure their content is seen, their brand is noticed and their sales grow.
This whitepaper will give you a model for appraising your content marketing capabilities...
Published: Sep 13, 2016
Ensuring that you are delivering the right content, to the right audience, at the right time in the buying process is no easy task, but it is critical to get this right in order to drive a return on investment from content marketing.
This guide tackles three key elements to content success; understanding the buying...
Published: Sep 13, 2016
The "De Minimus" Rule. Short periods of time (a few minutes or so) may be disregarded in calculating working time under the de minimus rule. Case law suggests that 10 minutes is such an insubstantial or insignificant period of time that it can be disregarded in recording working time. See, e.g., International...
Published: May 08, 2015
CONTRARY TO CONVENTIONAL WISDOM, new employees care more about mentoring and on-the-job training than perks like free food during the onboarding process, according to a survey of more than 1,000 U.S.-based employees conducted by BambooHR.
Published: Sep 19, 2014
Only 13 percent of employees around the world are engaged at their work.
Published: Jul 10, 2013
If every one of your connections turned to you for help in solving their greatest challenges at every stage of the sales journey, what would that do to your bottom line? If you could provide every new prospect with relevant, useful insights that would make them more successful, how would your sales goals change?
This...
Published: Jan 12, 2018