Small Business

How Millennials Could Make or Break the Brexit Vote

By Suman Bhattacharyya

In the final days before the referendum on Britain leaving the EU, poll numbers show the “leave” and “remain” sides in a dead heat. The Financial Times Brexit poll of polls has “leave” at 45 percent...
13 Tax Tips for Self-Employed Workers in 2016

By Janna Herron

The gig economy often means trickier taxes for self-employed workers. A third of the American workforce falls into that category, according to TurboTax, including 3.2 million on-demand workers, like...
How To Become an Everyday Millionaire…From Those Who’ve Done It

By Janna Herron

When you picture a millionaire’s lifestyle, does townhouse living or budgeting only $40,000 a year come to mind? Probably not. But it’s that type of frugal living that helped four everyday people to...
The Naughty Employee Costing Your Company More Than $12,000

By Millie Dent

We all have those colleagues who criticize you to co-workers behind your back, make rude remarks about your outfit or demand extra work from everyone but themselves. These toxic behaviors might be...
Employees Are Paying More – Much More – for Health Care

By Beth Braverman

While wages have been stagnant over the past decade, the amount that workers pay for employer-sponsored health insurance has more than doubled. Average employees at mid-size and large companies paid...

Behind Every Successful Woman, There’s a Clock

By Beth Braverman

Author Laura Vanderkam has made a career out of studying how people spend their time. For her latest book, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time , Vanderkam looked...
10 Worst States for Working Mothers

By Marine Cole

Working mothers may want to avoid moving to the South, where the quality of child care leaves a lot to be desired and professional opportunities are scarce.
What Successful People Don't Say at Work

By Travis Bradberry, Inc.com

You can't build a strong professional network if you don't open up to your colleagues; but doing so is tricky, because revealing the wrong things can have a devastating effect on your career.
10 Worst Cities to Start a Business in 2015

By Marine Cole

If you’re about to start a business, you may want to stay away from the New York City area and from the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas.
10 Best Cities to Start a Business

By Marine Cole

Some of the best cities to start a business are located in the South, where resources for small companies are often more available and more affordable than in Silicon Valley or the New York area.

The One Quick Way to Boost Worker Productivity

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Lose just one hour of sleep a night and you compromise your well-being, productivity, and ability to think clearly, sleep experts say. Yet many of us continue to sacrifice much-needed shut-eye to by...
Why Bad Weather Makes You a Better Worker

By Allison Linn, CNBC

Hey boss, don't fret about all the stormy weather : It could well be making your workers more productive. New research from Harvard University finds that employees get more done when the weather is...
9 Money Mantras That Are Worth Losing

By Jane Bianchi, LearnVest

“I’ll always be in debt.” “I don’t deserve to earn more.” “My family is bad with money, so I am too.” The moment that you hear the inner voice in your head repeating a negative money mantra, such as...
Did You Hear About the Benefits of Gossip? Pass It On

By Futurity Org, Futurity

An experiment to study the nature of gossip and ostracism suggests both serve important roles in society: reforming bullies and encouraging cooperation. “Groups that allow their members to gossip,”...
Cheatin’ Hearts Online Cost Businesses $17M a Day

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Valentine’s Day may be right around the corner, but many American workers aren’t thinking about gifts for their beloved spouses – not yet, anyway. That’s because they’re too busy flirting online with...

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