June 09, 2025
On your employee's first day on the job, you are required to ask them to complete federal Form W-4, Employee's Withholding Certificate. (Multiple language versions are available here.) The employee enters various data onto the form — including their tax filing status, whether they have multiple jobs, any credits they have, the amount of other income they earn or receive, and the amount of deductions available to them.
company culture · June 02, 2025
Sports rituals go beyond superstition to instill a sense of unity and cohesion, which can elevate performance. Rituals practiced in the workplace can likewise deepen commitment to corporate employers and make teams feel connected to fellow employees.
Technology · May 27, 2025
It is too late to ban your employees from using AI altogether, nor should you necessarily want to. Its capabilities can allow them to accomplish tasks with speed and efficiency hitherto barely imagined. As a tool, it can turbocharge productivity, much as computers have bypassed manual calculations and formerly laborious written drafts.
May 19, 2025
Employers are often not enthusiastic when employees are called for jury duty; after all, the employee is not allowed to refuse the summons (though they are sometimes allowed to postpone it), so their absence will have to be covered at work.
May 12, 2025
There are many benefits to being your own boss, but the first step in starting a new business is picking the right entity in which to operate that business. As discussed below, there are many types of structures available for a new business and the best one usually depends on the type of business you will be operating. Here are six options to consider...
Employee Benefits · May 05, 2025
Health savings accounts can be advantageous when your goal is to recruit new hires or improve existing employees' job satisfaction. They are an incredible benefit that you can offer to people who work for you.
FLSA · May 01, 2025
Before we can fully understand what overtime is, we need to understand how the Fair Labor Standards Act defines a workweek. FLSA says that an employee's workweek is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours — seven consecutive 24-hour periods. It doesn't have to coincide with the calendar week but may begin on any day and at any hour of the day. Averaging hours over two or more weeks is not permitted.
Technology · April 21, 2025
Technology evolves at such a fast rate that it can be difficult for people who are not in the industry to keep up with all the changes. Even so, it is important that everyone becomes familiar with the more common tech-based trends.
April 14, 2025
Restrooms are the most highly trafficked areas of corporate offices. Structural changes have revolutionized public toilets in malls and transportation facilities over recent decades, designating some areas as "family" restrooms, particularly for handwashing and diaper changing. Indeed, offices have followed suit by reconfiguring their space and introducing regulations intended to protect sensitive employees.
April 07, 2025
Despite diversity initiatives, at least one important cohort still trails in corporate practices — those suffering from visible or invisible disabilities, who may tend to be sidelined in the scramble to adjust equity.