August 24, 2015
• TECHNOLOGY “HAS PROVIDED OPPORTUNITY TO INTERACT WITH THE WORLD, enhance our lives and bring people together. But, like all good things, has its dark side… Among the most important trends are technology’s impact on human interaction and the breakdown... Continue
Weekly Report 15-34
August 18, 2015
MILLENNIALS ARE SUDDENLY LOOKING MORE LIKE A GENERATION OF INDIVIDUALISTS THAN COLLABORATORS. Priorities and work-habits of the Y-generation, now aged 15 to 35 and the largest group in America’s workforce, are pretty consistently conjectured as collaborating team players, allergic to... Continue
Weekly Report 15-32
August 18, 2015
OF NON-HOME-BASED U.S. BUSINESSES, 99.7% HAVE FEWER THAN 100 EMPLOYEES – roughly 23 million companies which employ over half the working population and generate over half the country’s sales. Up to 380,000 are projected to be sold in each of... Continue
Weekly Report 15-33
August 1, 2015
SELLING OR BUYING A BUSINESS IS USUALLY MORE ART THAN SCIENCE. Sellers predominantly aspire to ‘price’ – a number conceptualized from what something/somewhere sold for, or a broker put in their mind, a ‘valuation’ from some appraiser or accountant, imaginative... Continue
Weekly Report 15-31
July 26, 2015
NEW GUIDELINES FOR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR STATUS ARE TROUBLE FOR EMPLOYERS. Effective last week, pursuant to an ‘Administrative Interpretation,’ the Dep’t of Labor formally adopted an ‘economic realities’ test – under which “most workers are employees,” based on six determinative factors:... Continue