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Even More Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint in the Office

Eco-Office Gals

Check out the list below: Go Paperless – Are you still printing out documents and sending correspondence through the postal service? To reduce your carbon footprint and cut the cost of copy paper, copier maintenance, and ink, try going paperless. This would cut down on the cost of utilities as well.

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Telecommuting – a Sure-fire Way to Reduce Productivity and Effectiveness

Small Business CEO

I read with interest the recent, excellent article on telecommuting. It argues that telecommuting reduces a company’s costs, increases its productivity and furthers the green agenda. I should state, early on, that I don’t have any problem with occasional telecommuting. Well-argued as it is, I disagree.

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The Coming Age of Virtual Meetings

Eco-Office Gals

Virtual meeting platforms often have ways for participants to share documents and presentation material that replicate the experience of charts and projections. Further, virtual meeting platforms are often integrated within larger business software suites, allowing users to make changes to collaborate documents while in the meeting itself.

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Ensuring payroll compliance in 2024: What’s new?

BMT Office Administration

For example, under the original SECURE Act, businesses with fewer than 100 employees could receive a tax credit for up to 50% of their administrative costs if they offered retirement plans to their staff. Don’t use telecommuting to expand employees’ by requiring weekend and evening work without paying for it.

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How to Successfully Manage Remote Employees

Office Dynamics

government have found that allowing employees to telecommute, when done correctly, can increase employee productivity and satisfaction, reduce costs for the company, reduce employee turnover and allow access to a larger talent pool. In 2014, 10 percent of all employees worked remotely. Organizations from Automattic to the U.S.

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

Tips From T. Marie

The first is to keep the worker as an employee but turn the position into a telecommuting position. Converting an in-office worker to a telecommuting employee saves money by reducing overhead costs. After all, you don’t tell your attorney how to draft your legal documents right? There are two options to consider.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

And, a study was used to document the changes in GenY. These big corporations that we have erroneously entrusted our lives to have betrayed us by outsourcing our jobs overseas and cutting costs to increase their revenues ultimately at the expense of the middle class working average joe. Could a Union Be Coming to a Cubicle Near You?

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