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10 ways to make the gig economy work for your business

Insperity

Pros: It’s less commitment for businesses – it’s can be easier and less risky from a legal standpoint to let go of an underperforming gig worker than a full-time employee. Classify workers correctly to avoid legal and financial problems Are your gig workers truly contractors, or are they actually employees in practice?

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An Admin’s Cheat Sheet to Business Terminology

All Things Admin Blog

GAAP – Generally Accepted Accounting Principles: These are a set of guidelines and standards that govern how financial statements are prepared and presented. ToS – Terms of Service: This refers to the legal agreement between a company or website and its users. Scalable – The ability to change in size.

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community member asks to hear from male employees instead of me, saying “that’s above my pay grade,” and more

Ask a Manager

I and other colleagues at my workplace (local government) have been meeting informally with members of the public about a project in my community that I am the project manager for. Are you up for asking your manager to do that, and do you think she would? These are conversational meetings.

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enneagrams in hiring, sheer blouses at work, and more

Ask a Manager

In his role, he project manages the opening and remodeling of new facilities. Are there any legalities or policies that typically govern how much notice of travel should be given to employees? Legally, there’s no required amount of notice that employers must give before sending an employee on travel.

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my coworker wants to pull me into her counteroffer, boss is going to trash-talk me when I leave, and more

Ask a Manager

The company has been going through some rough periods due to personality/management conflicts between employees and management. I have personally been frustrated with one project manager (above me in the hierarchy, but not my supervisor) who is very intelligent but lacks control of his temper and various other people skills (Greg).

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doing a coworker’s work after she returns from leave, presenting donations with fanfare, and more

Ask a Manager

I have more years of experience and education and typically work on projects of a much larger scale than the ones this client brings in. She has also asked that I write all the proposals/contracts and schedule and project manage all of the work. My current manager and prospective manager talked without my permission.

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why are contractors treated like second-class citizens, boss enters without knocking, and more

Ask a Manager

.” Even the full-time project manager who trained me in said (facetiously) that contractors are sometimes treated like second-class citizens. Why do some people seem to have this aversion to contract workers? They’re jerks? In some companies there’s a culture where contractors are indeed seen as second-class citizens.

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