Soon, software will know how you feel-and will use that data to sell you things. The gig economy will go global (but it's not Uber-take-all). The tech industry will finally be inclusive. AI will achieve something like common sense, and it will be open source too. But that future won't build itself. Actual people (at least for now) have to...

The Department of Labor and state investigators are turning up the heat on employers who misclassify employees. In an effort to curb misclassification, the DOL in partnership with the IRS have hired auditors solely to investigate the correct status of independent contractors... Now, more than ever, it's imperative that you are in compliance with the law when classifying independent contractors. Join Marcia Miller as she walks your through...

This practical webinar is ideal for financial professionals or mid-level executives who want to use many of Excel's financial functions to rapidly and effectively make crucial financial decisions about Capital Expenditures (CAPEX). This webinar is not only designed for financial professionals, but also civil engineers, project managers, production managers and anyone who needs a firm understanding of the Capital Expenditure budgeting and decision making process in just one hour...

When you're running an early-stage startup, you may not have the funds to afford some of the perks you'd like to offer, including bonuses and salary raises for your employees. While you should expect to do this down the line, there are...

Content marketing and social media are fast becoming the core of marketing for many businesses -- and for good reason. WhatsApp has clocked in more than 1 billion users, Facebook is boasting nearly 1.5 billion monthly active users; and, as of 2015,...

I love talking about tactical marketing, but the best marketing tactics won't help you if your market fit is wrong or you're using the wrong message in your advertising. Marketing starts with product and great products start with research and testing. But,...

If you want to get rich, start by studying the people who have already done so. "The only person who can teach you how to think like a millionaire is a millionaire," writes Steve Siebold in his book, "How Rich People Think." The same could be said about billionaires. Below, we've rounded up 11 habits of self-made billionaires. You may notice that none of them require dramatic life changes - a few tweaks here and there to your daily routine could result in huge gains.

If this were a sports story, we'd start with the stats: Human Resource Certification Institute, 142,000 and Society for Human Resource Management, 92,000. But there's a lot more to the story than about how many HR folks hold credentials from the two organizations that previously had collaborated on certification for 40 years. After the contentious split between SHRM and HRCI two years ago,...

Randstad US, a staffing and HR services companies, has released its annual salary guides, which reveal that while most 2016 pay raises will average around 3%, certain engineering, information technology, manufacturing and logistics, and office and administration jobs can expect compensation increases of 6% to 9%. Randstad's 2016 Salary Guides unveil...

Sad reminder: Even HR professionals can get entangled in discrimination issues. A paper and packaging manufacturer with a facility located in Battle Creek, MI, will pay $187,500 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of the company's former HR manager. EEOC's lawsuit charged that...

A full year after issuing the initial proposal - and six years after the issue was first raised - the DOL has released the controversial new fiduciary rule. The new rule includes several changes to the proposal employers will need to know. Compliance date extended. In a nutshell,...

A global crackdown on tax avoidance has spurred multiple multi-national companies to issue warnings that higher payments are set to have a negative impact on their earnings. More than twice the number of U.S. companies alerted investors to the likelihood of...

This isn't exactly the kind of story the IRS wants buzzing around at tax time. The IRS and Justice Department normally want 'scared straight' stories just before Tax Day. Ideally, when an indictment or conviction for tax evasion hits the news, it makes you think twice. Somehow,...

Over the past decade, companies on average have given less guidance on expected financial results than they had previously. One reason for that is an increase in the volatility of uncontrollable factors, such as those facing the oil industry. In the past year in particular,...

We humans seem to love technology. I guess that is really not a surprise as technology got us out of the trees and into the subdivision. It got us off our feet and into our Fords. What sometimes gets us into trouble is our willingness to believe that technology can somehow, by itself, take care of everything. During the mainframe era,...

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of phones, memory chips and television sets, plans to revamp its authoritarian, top-down corporate culture to become more like a lean startup as it copes with sluggish demand and growing competition. The company said Thursday...

When a manufacturer's supply chain encompasses potentially hundreds of channel partners and distribution points, and each with a separate warehouse, tracking inventory can become problematic despite their best efforts and use of state-of-the-art ERP systems. Without highly accurate and timely sales channel and inventory data,...

A new ranking, with some very bad news. Virgin America is America's best airline again. For how long is anybody's guess. The airline captured top honors for the fourth year in a row in the closely-watched Airline Quality Rating, the industry's annual report card. It was followed by JetBlue Airways and Delta Air Lines. But it's a bittersweet win for Virgin...

If you believe in fate, there are signs that ride-sharing company Lyft has destiny on its side in its competition with Uber. After all, before Lyft's two founders ever met, one of them had launched a company called Zimride; the other founder happened to be named...

At first blush, it appears to be an utterly unexceptional spiral-bound notebook. Manufactured in the U.S. by the National Blank Book Company of Holyoke, Massachusetts, it's got a light green cover and 80 sheets of narrow-ruled 8-by-10-inch paper. The first sign that...