Last week, I had the pleasure of joining Matt Crawford, director of Product Marketing at Citrix, and Anita Campbell, Small Business Trends Founder and CEO, to discuss the challenges, as well as opportunities that small and medium businesses (SMBs) face during the current “Great Resignation” on a Linke...
Category: Workforce Management
Women in Engineering: Five Female STEM Professionals Who Changed Our World
As women continue in their quest to break glass ceilings and remove barriers to career achievement, their great work is perhaps most visible in the STEM fields. There, female innovators have contributed invaluably to our scientific and technological landscape, often while facing obstacles and discrimination on the path accomplishing their goals. Today, the number of
Hire Anyone, Anywhere? How Globalization Partners’ Employer of Record Platform Helps Companies Go Global
Many SMBs are starting to look beyond the pandemic and exploring opportunities to build new revenue streams. For some, this means expanding into global markets. While this can prove to be a great way to grow, businesses must make significant investments of time, energy and money...
From Challenge to Opportunity: How SMBs Can Reshape HR for the Future
Businesses of all sizes have been confronted by daunting challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, b...
Getting Strategic About New Ways to Work
Last week, Dropbox announced that it is retiring the 9am to 5pm workday, and replacing it with a “Virtual First” workplace strategy. On the surface, this may not seem like big news. Many companies, from Adobe to Salesforce, have announced plans to
Build Yor Best Business–New Online Interview Series for Entrepreneurs
I wanted to let you know about an online interview series for entrepreneurs titled: Build Your Best Business: Hire Confidently, ...
Insights on the Game-Changing Gig Economy
The 21st century is only two decades old but has already brought about tremendous changes in the ways we live and work. One of the bigg...
SMB Workforce and Workplace Impact and Plans Due to COVID-19
We all know that COVID-19 has had a dramatic effect on the workforce and workplace. As the economy reopens in fits and starts, a disturbingly high number of workers continue to file for unemployment. Meanwhile, businesses struggle with how to survive in the new normal, and whether and how to bring employees back to work. […]
Mobilizing Technology for Effective Remote Working Environments
The practice of working from home has skyrocketed in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, as companies told their employees to stay home to comply with the widespread quarantine and social-distancing requirements. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) have had to coordinate a sudden and massive migration to work from home (WFH) for almost all of their employees, using collaboration tools in ways that ...
Payroll Protection Loan Blues? Be Ready for the Next Round with This Free Tool
If you’ve tried to submit a Paycheck Protection Loan (PPL) application over the last week, it’s likely that you’ve noticed how broken the system is. Especially because you’re having to find a lender who is accepting loan applications and deal with SBA red tape. A lucky few have been able to move fast and gained access to their slice of the nearly $350 billion allocated to this program. Now, ...