Is your Business ready to Comply with New OSHA Reporting Rules? New rules from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have expanded the agency’s reach for reporting requirements. Among other changes, more industries will now have to keep and post logs

We are in the middle of tax season and both sides of the business world are scrambling to get everything ready. Employees are waiting to get their W2s so they can file taxes and hopefully get some of that hard earned cash back in their pockets. Businesses and employers are working hard to get W2s out on time so employees can start filing. For some this can mean a system of the dreaded “hurry up and wait”.

In an earlier post we discussed some of the violations that can occur when payroll is not done correctly. One such article was linked to paying employees for work required responsibilities that do not contribute to work production. Such activities include putting on and removing certain required clothing such as HAZMAT required protection.

Around the country states are starting 2015 with an increase in the minimum wage. In 20 states around the United States minimum wage has been increased by various amounts, with Alaska poised to increase their minimum wage in February. Over the past year people have strongly argued for a change in the $7.25 minimum federal wage (the minimum wage any state can not drop beneath) across the country.

When it comes to running a business one has to be careful with their actions. Especially when it comes to dealing with workers. One small oversight on the payroll can bring about fines and violations. Even if it all turns out as being nothing, the time spent on it is now gone and someone has to be paid for that time spent. Many times it is not even our fault these things happen.

With the holiday season coming to a close, it is getting closer to tax season. A time of year that can be just as terrifying as it can be exciting. You could be getting a bit tax return or you could end up paying taxes back to the government. As confusing as doing your own taxes can be, it can be ten times worse if you have to do your employees tax information as well. How do you do your employees tax information?

The year has come to a close and it is time to look in two completely different directions. We have to look forward to 2015 and the new opportunities that will be present in it. To fully optimize these opportunities though we have to look back to our past year. How did 2014 go for you? was it successful or did you hit more rough patches then you originally intended?

We have spoken before on the increase of technology and how it is changing the modern office, yet 2015 is looking to push the idea of the digital office even further than ever before. Smart devices, programs, and interfaces are breaking out of their former molds and spiraling into new directions. Windows is looking to bring their Microsoft Office software fully into a touchscreen format. Samsung is designing a smart phone with a bending screen

December is finally here. Decorations are being hung from palm trees and the weather is getting colder. This can all mean just one thing. Christmas time is just around the corner. This is the time of year that the stores and businesses really come to life with toys and gifts flying off the shelves. Customers crowd the aisles and the cashiers are working nonstop from open to close.

How many films have shown the discontent office worker? He steps out of an elevator into a large room with copy and pasted rows of cubicles. He sits down in his own little dull tan or off white cubicle and clicks away at a keyboard. This is the repetitive recipe that makes up his weekdays. Everyday sitting in the same little dull colored cubicle listening to the crunching of keyboards. Just reading about his day kind of puts you in a worse mood doesn’t it?