Archive for Business
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Companies Aren’t Archiving Emails. Are You Archiving Your Own Emails?
Remember that email you got with that password you needed? Where is that email with your bank information or vacation itinerary? We've all seen Microsoft Outlook email archiving pop up and often they hit yes to archive old emails without knowing what it does. What is email archiving and how do...
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Hints on How to Lose the Fear of Public Speaking
Public speaking is a gift when it's done correctly but you may need a few tips to achieve it. Why are people so afraid to get up in front of an audience and give a speech? Basically, people are afraid of being humiliated in front of others. Some may have negative experiences in the past, such ...
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Some People Cheat and Others Can’t. Why?
Sometimes cheaters do get caught. New York financier Bernie Madoff faces a possible life sentence after pleading guilty to 11 felony counts in one of history's largest investment frauds. Unfortunately, this is just one of many recent stories about captains of industry and finance behaving badly with...
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Local Post Offices Are Closing. Is Yours on the List?
As the United States Postal Service, weighed down by a crippling multibillion-dollar deficit, shrinks its operations, post offices across the country are on the chopping block. Each year, hundreds of postal operations shutter, but this coming fall could be the single biggest consolidation in Postal ...
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Employees Calling In Sick With Seasonal Absence Syndrome SAS
Since when did wanting a nice, sunny afternoon to work in the garden become a Seasonal Absence Syndrome? With the arrival of summer, 30% of employees may call in sick this summer to enjoy a day off. Sunny skies and warmer temperatures also brings Seasonal Absence Syndrome (SAS), which will plague...
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How To Make Real Money On Ebay
How many times have you heard this line? Unfortunately there are hundreds of people selling the "best" ways to make a ton of money on eBay. The truth is you can make a lot of money on eBay. There is not some secret formula or one way to do it. In this article I will offer tips that could help you...
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Payment Processing Systems for your Website
Researching a topic can be frustrating sometimes. You search the web for information only to find much of it not exactly related to the topic you are searching for. This has prompted our experts to help provide better information for people like you. This article will try to help you by providing in...
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Defining Automated Time and Attendance Goals
At this point, your task force has defined your manual time and attendance process, has identified problems and opportunities, and is working to ensure the uniform enforcement of your payroll policies. You’ve probably also uncovered some areas for cost savings. The next step is to develop goals...
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Defining Your Current Time and Attendance Process
The first step for your task force is to conduct a comprehensive review of your current time and attendance processes. This is often called a situation analysis. There are three basic goals for a situation analysis: Learn exactly how the Time and Attendance system works now Pinpoint problem area...
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Choosing a Time and Attendance Vendor
Most businesses, regardless of their size, are under pressure to effectively assign time and attendance resources and control labor costs. However, they also need to balance time and attendance complexities, competitive pressures, and limited budgets or IT support. This leaves very little margin for...
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Watch The Celebrity Apprentice Tonight
I just heard that The Celebrity Apprentice is going to feature a cool new video phone on Sunday night's episode (March 22nd). I've heard that the contestants will have to market this new video phone and that it's part of a life-changing opportunity in a network marketing company called ACN. I wil...
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What Years as a Manager Has Taught Me About Career Advice
As this is the time of year that many people start making their New Year's resolutions - personal and professional - I thought I'd share some of the best career management tips I know. Some of these I learned from others and some I learned the hard way. In any case, here goes: #1 Do whatever Ire...
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Get Your Small Business Ranked In the Search Engines With SEO
Let’s start with a commonly misunderstood concept: Search engines don’t rank websites; they rank web pages. Many people assume if they optimize their website for a number of keywords then all search traffic will go to their homepage. Actually the opposite is true; search engines look for rele...
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Dunkin Donuts to Sell Togo’s
Dunkin' Donuts plans to sell Togo's Eateries Inc., the Canton, Mass. coffee giant announced Friday. Trinity Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment banking firm with extensive experience in the multi-unit retail and food and beverage industries, has been retained to evaluate and market the busine...
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Lee Jeans Ad Featuring Lolita is “Porn-like”
Lee Jeans' controversial "Lolita" ad poster for spring-summer 2006 has been found acceptable by the Advertising Standards Board. Shot by renowned US photographer Terry Richardson, the advertisement - shown in locations including Toorak Road, South Yarra - featured the standard cliches of the soft...
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Dell Laptops Are Exploding and Catching on Fire
More than four million Dell laptops are at the center of a global alert over batteries that can overheat and catch fire. Dell issued the biggest product recall in computer history after video footage showed a laptop bursting into flames during a conference in Osaka, Japan. Similar incidents have ...
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Kronos Buys Workforce Specialist Unicru
Kronos is buying Beaverton, Oregon-based Unicru for $150 million in cash. The deal is a sign of the growing interest in pre-employment assessment, and further expands Kronos past its roots as a maker of time-and-attendance technology systems. HR technology provider Kronos has decided it's time t...
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Kronos Excels in Talent Management
When the news is full of layoffs every day, how can there be a skills shortage? As Deloitte & Touche pointedly asks in the title of its future-looking research report on all industries, It's 2008: Do You Know Where Your Talent Management Is? "The talent shortage is not a theoretical or distant pr...
