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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). The uncertainty of the market, unstable cash flow, and the seemingly never-ending threat of recession may force companies to make tough decisions.

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The End-of-Quarter Sales Rush Costs Companies Money

Harvard Business

companies over nine consecutive quarters (Q1 2014 through Q1 2016). Train sales representatives to enter every conversation from the standpoint of providing a solution that meets the customer’s agenda — and timeline — as opposed to their own. million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S.

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Pros and Cons of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) Why a “Virtual PEO” May be the Better Option

Emerson Consulting Group

In 2016 ADP Total Source, one of the larger PEOs, reported more than 400,000 “worksite” employees [2]. Arguably, it’s hiring and training. And who will do the hiring and training? Workers Compensation Insurance is – generally – easy coverage to acquire, and many carriers have cash-flow-advantageous methods of collecting premium.