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

BMT Office Administration

While dealing with lots of paperwork doesn’t rank as most HR professionals’ favorite task, proper recordkeeping for employee personnel files is a must for any organization. In addition, if an employee is involuntarily let go, their employee file must be kept for one year following the termination date. Why is that?

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3 Steps to Finally Tackle Your Tedious Tasks

Success

Most people dread tasks like stuffing envelopes or filling out expense reports, and would prefer more fulfilling and stimulating work. The greatest obstacle we face is procrastination, which by definition is the choosing of a more pleasurable task over the task at hand. Change your mindset.

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Small business tax credits and deductions you should know about

BMT Office Administration

And now is the time to think about them, since the tax-filing deadlines for calendar-year corporate returns are fast approaching—March 15 for S corps and April 18 for C corps. Snag: There are at least 24 different definitions of a small business in the tax code (we counted!),

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Podcast 081: Low energy productivity

Clutter Coach

This is for when you’re in that in-between stage, not sick enough to stay in bed but definitely not 100%. Expense reports or any kind of form or report that requires you to gather information you have and compile it, just filling in the little blanks and sending it off. Do some filing. Nice and mindless.

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Technology of the week: Camscanner

Practically Perfect PA

Create PDF files for scans. This app is really handy for assistants for a number of tasks; including expenses, minute taking, emailing documents and anything else that needs to be scanned and converted to PDF. Save scan results to system album. Customise PDF page size: 10 page size options. How does it benefit assistants?

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The Operational Case for Getting an EA for Your CEO

Worxbee

Scheduling their own meetings, booking their own travel and accommodation, filing reports and managing their own inboxes are just some of the tasks that should be filed under “not the best operational use of time.” If your CEO isn’t focusing on the highest investment tasks, they’re putting a natural limit on operational efficiency.

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Uber and Lyft Lawsuits & the On-Demand Economy

Small Business Labs

The separate suits - one filed by Uber drivers and other by Lyft drivers - allege they are misclassified as independent contractors. Additionally, they will have to reimburse the drivers’ expenses like they would for employees, likely including money for outlays like gas, insurance and vehicle maintenance costs.

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