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In the modern world, there should be no place for bullying, harassment, or any type of degradation based on nationality, skin color, etc. Unfortunately, this isn’t yet the case. In fact, it is estimated that an amazing 72% of Australians have been sexually harassed. It is clear that there is a long way to go in the fight for equality.
Business owners who want to grow their business first need to focus on their employees, not customers. This seems somewhat unusual! After all, it’s the customers who really bring cash to your business. Employees cost businesses money in terms of salary and benefits business owners need to provide.
However, when you think hard it is not as unusual as it seems at a first glance. Your employees are the face of your business. They interact with customers every day. If your employees are not happy it will reflect on their interaction with customers. Your customers will not receive good customer service and they will not come back to your business. That is why it is important to keep employee morale high.
The direct and indirect costs associated with workplace injuries can be massive. Business owners must worry about medical expenses, compensation payments for the injured worker, legal fees, possible OSHA penalties, and lost productivity. And even with workers’ compensation coverage, injured employees can still face numerous challenges before obtaining the financial help they need.
Read on to discover the financial consequences of a work-related injury.
Covid-19 has wreaked havoc in the lives of everyone all over the world. Ever since its first appearance in China in December 2019 and subsequent spread in every country, the lives of people have not remained the same. Masks are ubiquitous anywhere you go; social gathering has been limited or completely eliminated and businesses have been shut down.
In the last few months there are signs that the spread is getting under control, resulting from higher vaccination rate and herd immunity. Businesses are slowly making plans to open up and bring employees back to the office. As they prepare to do, it is still very important to take all the necessary precautions to protect employees, and themselves, from being affected. Here are the steps business owners can take to prepare for reopening and protect their employees.
COVID-19’s recent expansion has prompted an increasing number of businesses to invite employees to work from home. Have they, on the other hand, equipped their personnel to do so? Modern offices are jam-packed with technology and infrastructure that allows people to work, yet most houses lack even that.
If you want to keep your productivity levels up at home, you’ll need to upgrade your technology. Being behind your coworkers — or other organizations — can have a significant impact on your performance.
It may be difficult to know where to begin for people who are not used to working from home. To stay on top of their work, remote workers should consider the following five technologies.
There are a lot of things that can impact a business’s cash flow and start causing a knock on effect down the line. For instance, when there is not enough incoming and too much outgoing at the time that employees need to be paid you could have a shortfall. This can put your business in a bind as it is the law that employees must be paid what they are owed for hours worked and at the regular pay period.
You struggle to wake up in the morning even though it never used to be a problem before. The thought of having to go to work makes you go “oh no, not again”. You dread Mondays, strike that, you dread every next working day.
Sounds familiar? In most cases, it means you’re snowballing towards burning out. It also means that you need to act on it, and you should do it fast. It’ll get only worse if you do nothing.
No matter what kind of business you happen to run, it is hugely important that you have employees who work hard, all day every day. Being able to encourage them to do this is one of the most powerful tools you can have as an entrepreneur, so it is definitely something that you are going to want to think about in some detail. As it happens, getting more out of your employees is something that you can do in many ways. In this post, we’ll take a look at just a few of the best options you might have here.
Navigating workplace conflict can be an awkward and uncomfortable experience for all those involved, but it does not have to be. We all deal with conflict in different ways in our personal lives, but workplace conflict needs to be dealt with more professionally. Here are excellent 5 tips for effectively navigating conflict in your workplace.
Do you wonder how the world around you is evolving? How has humankind managed to transit itself from living in caves to a global village? The traits of adaptability, management, rapid growth, thinking out of the box, business mindset, and administration have the most outstanding shares in this evolution. You may find unmatchable illustrations of these traits around the globe and witness wonders coming into existence due to them.
