If you provide disability insurance for your workers, you should also educate them on what it covers and how much it pays. If you’re self-employed, this might be a good time to look into buying coverage.  Nearly one in three women and one in four men can expect to suffer a disability that keeps them out of work for 90 days or longer at some point during their working years, a new survey shows. And most of us are clueless about coverage.

Chances are you may find more than one overqualified candidate in your pool of potential hires. But is taking a chance on someone who is overly-skilled for the job you’re offering a win for the company?

Flexible work hours top working moms' list of career priorities as they strive to achieve better work-life balance, a new study shows.

Telecommuting has long been touted as a major convenience for workers. New research, however, shows that many workers do not share those feelings about working from home. Employees said that working remotely affected communication, decision-making and conflict resolution in a negative way.

When you begin working toward turning your million-dollar business idea into a reality, how can you ensure people you hire and/or consult with along the way don’t take your plan and run with it? Make sure they sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), also known as a confidentiality agreement, say legal experts.

Economic uncertainty may actually be helping bolster employee stability, a new survey shows. Employees may be wearing slightly longer faces these days because of uncertainty about the economy, but that uncertainty is unlikely to translate into wholesale job-hopping, the survey showed.

Striking a balance between your work life and your personal life may have become a bit easier in the past few years, new research finds.  The research found that in the past seven years, many employers have allowed workers greater flexibility regarding when and where they work. 

As the job market and economy rebound, concerns are growing not only about engaging employees to give their best, but retaining those employees that you spent time engaging.

Employees chatting on cellphones while behind the wheel on the job can take a significant toll on businesses, according to a new report.

Back-office positions like business process outsourcing and data processing are among the fastest-growing online jobs, according to a new report.

Small businesses are only as good as their employees. Have one bad apple and it can wreck the entire apple cart. But a small business owner doesn’t have to let one morale-sapping employee infect the whole office.

New research shows that 80 percent of people in five of the world's largest economies feel that unlocking creativity is critical to economic growth. And nearly two-thirds of people feel creativity is valuable to society. But only one in four of the survey's respondents believe they are living up to their own creative potential. Are we facing a global creativity gap?

According to a new survey from the National Association of Business Economics, companies are ‘modestly’ increasing hiring and wages. The industry survey found 39% of respondents expect hiring will increase in the next six months. This is up from only 27% in January.

Small and medium-size businesses are showing a growing interest in turning over their hiring, firing and benefits administrations to outsiders, human resource industry experts say. They hope it will help them rein in costs and give them access to a level of HR expertise they couldn’t afford on a full-time basis.

Bosses may often get the credit, but office secretaries are the ones who are indispensible, according to a new poll in which nearly two-thirds of workers said the office administrative assistant was responsible for holding the office together.

How and when to get trademarks and copyrights. And don’t have time to make sure no one is infringing on your copyright or trademark and making money off your creations or ideas? Relax, there are intellectual property watch services that do just that.

You already know hiring managers might be looking at your social media profile, but do you know what they're looking for? The answer is more nuanced than you might think. 

If you want to run a high-performing company, you can't afford employees who are just along for the ride. From corner office to cubby, your work force must be fully engaged. In other words, they must be "all in," according to Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, co-authors of the bestselling "The Carrot Principle" and "The Orange Revolution."

Two top tech executives recently said that putting in an eight-hour day is enough, so long as their work is done. Here's a look at whether small-business owners should adopt the same view.

While big environmental changes often come from the head office, employees have a lot more control over the greening of their workplace than they may think. That's the word from NSF International, the organization that sets safety and health standards for food, water and consumer goods.

In the age of iPhones, tablets and ever-present technology, overtime is becoming harder to regulate. However, workers who are putting in extra time are increasingly taking their employers to court seeking payment for their longer hours and more demanding jobs.

In honor of the 100^th anniversary of the Titanic disaster, here’s a life jacket—tips to survive and thrive in the job interview based on my firm’s 3V Model for Effective Communication. You can master the visual, vocal and verbal dynamics that will keep you afloat.

Though a ruling won’t likely come till June, a majority of Americans think the Supreme Court’s decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be based on political partisan views, rather than the law itself, according to a recent poll.

Firing an employee is a stressful, unpleasant experience. But if an employee situation is simply not working out, sometimes a firing becomes necessary. For the benefit of you and your employee, here is a guide on how to terminate an employee responsibly and compassionately.

From bankruptcy to disgruntled customers or employees seeking revenge, even a mom-and-pop should be prepared to handle a media blitz with the fundamentals of crisis management.

Although there’s no guarantee your business won’t ever be sued, there are steps you can take to mitigate the risk.

After months of debate and scrutiny, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Startups (JOBS) Act Thursday. The bill enables entrepreneurs to fund their businesses through crowdfunding and thus loosen access to capital in a tight market.

Hiring at small businesses has increased in the last two months, according to the CBIZ Small Business Employment Index. The index, which analyzes hiring trends among companies with 300 or fewer employees, reported an increase of 1.66% during March and 0.25% in February.

From children at the office to free lunches and flexible hours, many small businesses are breaking the mold when it comes to corporate structure-- and saving money in the process. 

Modesty may be the best policy in many situations, but a job interview is not one of them. That's the finding of a new survey that looked at the way people performed on job interviews.  In that survey, narcissists, who promoted themselves in the interview, were rated more highly than those who were modest.

This week, Bank of America, announced the launch of a new 401(k) solution from Merrill Edge designed for small businesses, called the Merrill Edge Small Business 401(k). It offers a retirement solution for small business owners, who generally have 401(k) plan assets under $250,000.

When your employees meet or surpass your expectations, congratulations are in order. But lavish banquets or plaques are not necessary for informing an employee of your appreciation. Also, you don’t want your employees to think that you are expressing your approval out of obligation or tradition. Your respect should come from a place of sincerity, but it also does not have to cost a lot of money. Here are a few ways that you can demonstrate your appreciation for an employee’s job well done without going over budget or appearing disingenuous.

There are ways to implement continuing education strategies that will keep a workforce happy and informed without eating into a company’s bottom line.

Millennials want a lot of things at work.  According to a new survey, a majority of Generation Y workers (people in their 20s and early 30s) not only want their workplace to be fun, but they also want to make their own hours and eventually be their own boss. Above all, millennials want to be happy at work, so much so that 50 percent of Gen Y workers would rather be unemployed then work at a job they hate.

There are only a couple more weeks left in tax season, and if you are a small business owner and have not yet filed, the clock is ticking.

Employees and employers are in agreement about working from home.  According to a new survey, bosses and their workers both desire the ability to work from home, but they are divided on how productive they are when doing so. That's because while 55 percent of workers surveyed felt they were more productive when working from home, only a quarter of bosses agreed with that sentiment.

Employers are making headlines this week over their social media etiquette. Some are friend requesting their workers on Facebook, while others are asking potential hires for their social media logins as part of the interview process. What approach should your small business take?

Nearly half of all workers suffer from moderate to severe stress while on the job, according to a recent survey. And 66 percent of employees report that they have difficulty focusing on tasks at work because of stress.  Stress has been called the “health epidemic of the 21^st century” by the World Health Organization and is estimated to cost American businesses up to $300 billion a year.

Should employers offer incentives to employees to stay healthy? According to a recent study, 75 percent of companies already are, offering an average of $460 per employee in incentives during 2011 to encourage employees to participate in health improvement programs.

Supreme Court hearings on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ended Wednesday with the justices considering if President Obama’s health-care overhaul bill can stand without the individual mandate rule.

Missed opportunities play havoc as well in business. Indecision, or, not taking the opportunity to make a decision, has its own costs – and those costs sometimes exceed that of an even bad decision.

Ever wonder what people really do on their sick days? Turns out, most of them are actually sick. That's the finding of new research that uncovered various work- and salary-related differences between men and women and revealed some interesting statistics about sick days.

The individual mandate portion of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act took center stage during day two of the Supreme Court hearings focused on the law.

Monday began Supreme Court hearings on President Obama's health-care reform act. With three days committed to testimony on the much-debated Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court justices will decide whether to hear the case now, or wait until 2015 when the regulations would be in effect. 

Women make better bosses. That’s the finding of a new survey, which found that women in management positions lead in a more democratic way, allow employees to participate in decision-making and establish interpersonal channels of communication. 

The “Small Employer Health Insurance Survey” from eHealth found that 85% of small businesses are not planning to make any changes to their policies or plans based on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

A survey by temporary staffing firm Adecco revealed that nearly 60 percent of U.S employees judgeco-workers on how clean or dirty they keep their work space. More than 40 percent have judged their colleagues more negatively if their work space is messy, while 45 percent have looked at them in a more positive light if their personal area is tidy.