Sunday, July 16, 2006

Employees Taking Care Of Parents Increasingly Utilize Work Hours To Fulfill Role; Impacting Company Costs Confirming a trend first noted in the last decade of the 20th Century, employees are more and more taking time from their jobs to perform caregiving tasks for parents. 4:58:36 PM    comment []

“Flexible Schedules,” “Work-At-Home,” Gaining In Popularity With Smaller Companies As State Aid Grows For Programs The next time an employee requests to change their work schedule, employers are urged to think about showing some flexibility. This is the suggestion from one of New Jersey’s largest professional employer organizations, Extensis. 4:58:08 PM    comment []

Small Firms Still Being Shut Out Of Government Spending; Options Abound Although the Small Business Administration (SBA) claims $79.6 billion in federal prime contracts was awarded to smaller firms in 2005, many advocacy and congressional critics say this is just not the case. 4:57:24 PM    comment []

Protecting, Cleaning Nation’s Food Chain Offers Opportunities For Small Firms Because of growing public concern about food safety, products and services providing protection within the wholesale distribution chain, as well as retail establishments, offer opportunities for small firms. 4:57:00 PM    comment []

Healthcare Insurance Rates Climb In Two Studies, Decline In ISI Study Of HSA Families While pundits have praised CDH as a means to reduce healthcare costs, it has yet to impact the overall trend towards higher family expenditures. 4:56:39 PM    comment []

Special Report: Aging Baby Boomers And Corporate America; A Mutual Need The question of age is beginning to impact corporations and workers as several trends converge. With the “flattening” of corporate America as organizations become leaner, a generation of middle managers are finding themselves out of work.  4:55:43 PM    comment []

Small, Medium-size Firms Getting Access To A Full Set Of Applications Through CompUSA NetSuite, Inc., the leader in on-demand business software suites, and CompUSA, one of the nation's leading retailers and resellers of technology products and services, today announced a major initiative to offer NetSuite's award-winning on-demand business management software suite to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). 4:53:37 PM    comment []

Law Suits Against Smaller Companies By Ex-Employees Growing; Safeguards Need To Be Put In Place One in four privately held companies have been sued by an employee or former employee, according to a survey sponsored by the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies. Executives at almost half the firms surveyed said it was likely that an employee would sue them, their board members and their companies and/or lodge a discrimination complaint with federal or state authorities in 2004. 4:52:48 PM    comment []

Podcasting Becoming Valuable Marketing Tool For Smaller Firms, White Paper Shows Methodology Recent advances in Podcasting have allowed many smaller firms to utilize such programs in their marketing efforts.  Surveys indicate that while still small, growth in this new media is reaching a tipping point as a viable vehicle to improve sales and expand customer relations. Many smaller firms with limited budgets, have found them to be a cost effective tool to build traffic on ecommmerce sites.  The problem has been finding the best ways to create and manage these podcasts. 4:50:40 PM    comment []

Small Companies Find Marketing Direction From Urn And Casket Provider Licensing Major League Logos For Its Products Proving that small companies can reach out and find endorsements for any products, an urn and casket company has signed an agreement to put major league baseball logos on their products. Sensing that baseball fans may want to show their loyalty even unto death, Eternal Image, Inc. has signed a licensing agreement permitting it to reproduce the names and logos of all 30 major league teams on a new line of caskets and urns. The products are in the development phase and delivery is planned for 2007. 4:48:43 PM    comment []

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