Crescendo AAV, a company that specializes in home technology, was in search of someone to take care of their back office accounting needs as well as a few HR needs. In 2013, our relationship began.
Congress passed and President Biden recently signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package, into law. In addition to stimulus checks of up to $1,400 that are being sent to eligible Americans, there are several major changes that business owners need to know about.
If you are like most small business owners, you spend up to 40 percent of your working hours on tasks that don’t generate income or that could be done by someone else. Is it time to hire your first, or another, employee so that you can focus your time and energy on growing your business? Can you afford to hire someone? How much does an employee really cost?
Performance management is really about holding employees accountable for doing the job that they are being paid to do. Performance management also requires the person supervising an employee’s work to communicate expectations and give timely feedback on job performance.