7 Things Small Business Owners Need to Know About Workers’ Compensation

Small businesses face a number of challenges in their day-to-day operations, including supply delays, market uncertainty, compliance issues, employee injuries, and cost calculations. Workers’ compensation can be a time-consuming and financially-draining hurdle to clear for small business owners if their employees suffer job-related injuries on-the-clock.

Workers' compensation

When dealing with a workers’ comp case, a small business owner should abide by and fully understand the intricacies of workers’ compensation. For more information, talk to a reputable workers compensation attorney like Schwartzapfel Lawyers or review the following list of seven things small business owners need to know about workers’ compensation.

1. What is workers’ compensation?

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Why Planning for a Presentation Is Necessary

These days with so many tools available on the internet it is a prerequisite in the business world that you have the ability to prepare and then make a great presentation. However, you would be surprised at the number of people that despite being highly educated have no idea where to start.

Event presentation

You wouldn’t go to a job interview unprepared so why on earth would you make a business presentation without doing your homework? Here we are going to take a look at why planning for a presentation is so important.

To know who your audience is

If you don’t plan for a particular audience how will you be able to give a presentation that achieves what you set out to achieve?…

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Can Introducing Plants to Your Premises Increase Business Revenue?

Plants are fast-becoming an important part of modern design. Look at any new development structure, from apartments to corporate headquarters, and you’ll find greenery sprouting from every available space. Particularly amongst younger generations — although this trend is by far from exclusive to millennials — plants are an irresistible design choice for everything from external community areas to private indoor spaces.

Office plantation

This desire to be around plantlife has not gone unnoticed. Only a few years ago, Amazon opened The Spheres, a series of greenhouse locations close to its headquarters in Seattle. Filled with over 40,000 plants, the concept was designed to give its employees a striking green and natural space to explore every day.…

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How To Configure Software Design And Architecture From Scratch 

There are several complex steps to configure reliable, high-performance software design and architecture from scratch. Once you have developed the specific idea for your software project, there are several steps to develop a sophisticated, high-performance software program.

Configuring software design and architecture

If the proper steps are completed, you can largely improve security, agility, and the speed of your software development pipeline. At the same time, you can sure that the program you develop is free of any errors or bugs.…

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5 Financing Options for Businesses to access Quick Cash

Starting a business right from scratch and getting it off the ground isn’t easy. Many people venture into business but end up closing within their first few years of operation. Many factors have been linked to startup failure, but financing has proved to be the main challenge.

New business financing

Finding enough money to support business functions and cover company expenses has never been easy for startups. This guide explains five of the best financing options you can use to kick start your business if you’re not sure about how to finance your ideas.…

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3 Types of Penny Stocks That Are Worth Trading

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defines a penny stock as any stock that trades below $5 a share. While savvy investors use penny stocks’ low prices to make money, many people are tempted to buy them without doing their research, but this is a mistake.

Trading in stock market

Before investing in penny stocks, take time to learn about the risks involved and the key factors affecting their prices. By doing your research and learning about the types of penny stocks worth trading, it’s entirely possible, though not guaranteed, to get a good return on your investment.

Here are 3 types of penny stocks worth investing in.…

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How to Earn Money from Home

With the world in crisis and more people than ever are stuck at home without jobs, there has never been a better time to pick up a side-hustle. A side hustle is something that you can devote whatever spare time you have to whilst earning money at the same time. Ideally, they are scalable.

Make money online from home

A scalable side hustle is one that will grow as much or as little as you want it to. The more you put in, the more reward. These types of jobs are perfect to grow alongside a regular job. They can also grow to the point where you might be able to do them full time.…

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How to Ensure Your Retail Store is Health and Safety Compliant

Health and safety law extends to all enterprises, no matter how small they are. You are responsible for the health and safety of your retail store.

Wet floor caution sign

It is necessary to take proper precautions to reduce the dangers of occupational accidents and have a safe working atmosphere. All that’s required for many retail stores is a simple set of tasks. This article will walk you through the steps and help you make sure you’ve done everything you can.

Dealing with Wet Floors and Spillages

Wet floors may cause injuries, and your business could be liable by law. So, ensure that you keep your business clean.…

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How to Identify Winning Products That Sell

Searching for that perfect product to start a business with can admittedly be difficult. Many of today’s inventors stumbled across their idea by chance or they say it “just came to them.” Or, they were facing a problem in their daily life and came up with a product idea to solve that problem, and the rest was history. When starting from scratch, it can be difficult to identify which of your current ideas are ‘winning’ products.

Identifying product trends

While there’s no foolproof process for determining that winning product idea, there are three main identifications that can provide the confidence that the products are likely to sell well and be enjoyed by many.…

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8 Ways To Improve Your Productivity And Mental Health

During a pandemic, productivity and mental health may seem to function far apart from each other, but they actually work hand in hand. For many of us, including myself, there has been a lot of pressure to not only stay productive, but to accomplish more than ever before.

Productive employee on the job

Although many are working from home, maintaining productivity may be even more difficult right now due to the state of our mental health. Being quarantined in a confined space, unable to hug our loved ones, continuing to work full time while caring for children – and many more stressors can easily cause anyone’s mental health to deteriorate without adequate (or any) time for self care.…

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