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It’s time to review (or create) your document retention policy

BMT Office Administration

Worried that your company might not have a particular document on hand if the IRS conducted an audit? They create a document retention policy that clarifies what needs to be saved, where, and for how long. Courts and government agencies frown upon individual employees selectively keeping or tossing important documents.

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

BMT Office Administration

While it’s clear that you need to keep a separate file for each employee, which documents should you include in it? After all, there are some documents that you’ll need to keep confidential , and there are some that you don’t even need to include in your personnel files.

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Stay organized and secure with electronic records management

BMT Office Administration

He put Laura in charge of going through a bunch of drawers with instructions to make folders to organize papers of current worth, box up other documents that somebody might need down the line, and toss insignificant and old material. Fires, floods, and even spilled cups of coffee can render physical copies of documents unreadable.

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The Do’s And Don’ts Of Digital Document Management Systems (DMS)

Small Business CEO

With flexible working and Bring your own Device (BOYD) policies becoming the norm, it is increasingly difficult for business owners to keep track of one of their most valuable company assets, i.e. their business-related documentation. Entrepreneurs documents management' Do you need an onsite, hosted or hybrid solution?

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1099 vs W-2: The difference between employees and contractors

BMT Office Administration

Employees need this document in order to file their personal income taxes each year. It can also help to look at whether the worker is reimbursed for expenses incurred while completing the work. Here you will include the recipient’s full legal name or registered business name and their address. Medical and health care payments.

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Should City Governments and other Businesses look to Virtual Services to Save Money?

Tips From T. Marie

If your employee or employees are sitting at their computers all day, making and taking phone calls, working on documents, data input and other tasks that are computer based with little to no public interaction in person they are a good candidate for either choice. There are money saving pros to both.

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Monty Python Officeland

Laughing all the Way to Work

Proofing documents can also be funny. He wrote in one sentence that he had " expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. I left his office to the sound of his chuckles behind me. Good thing I checked.