HSAs or Health Savings Accounts are a great way for small businesses to provide benefits for their employees. They are probably one of the less utilized solutions in the marketplace today even though they’ve been in effect for 10 years. The IRS may allow for employee, employee family members and employer to ‘make tax-deductible contributions’…
Year: 2018
How To Plan For A Secure Retirement
by Barry H. Spencer | Dec 26, 2017 When most people think about investing for retirement, it’s usually in terms of market returns — because that’s what the media wants us to think about. Every evening on the news, right before a commercial break, they’ll give you a 20-second market update: The S&P was up 1 percentage point,…
Employee Recruitment and Retention
Second in a series of five ‘HR challenges’ facing small businesses, we take a look at why, especially now, HR is so important to small and midsize (SMB) companies (Related post: “Why HR For Small Business“). Here in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle and the North Puget Sound small and midsize companies are competing with one…
Why HR For Small Business?
First in a series of ‘HR challenges’ facing small businesses, we take a look at why, especially now, HR is so important to small and midsize (SMB) companies. Every company has its own culture and set of rules which impact how well a team can work together toward their common goal. Often large companies have…