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…

Employees weigh their health insurance options.

Health Insurance Instability Given the insurance market’s current climate of instability, employees are carefully weighing their options and many are re-considering the advantages of small group health benefits. In the Pacific Northwest where wage restrictions can hamper recruitment and retention, employers providing health insurance for their employees most certainly have an advantage over their competition…