Staffing a Technology Business - Articles

• Involuntary Termination Practices for Small Businesses
  If your small business doesn’t have an HR department, it falls to you to take care of details for terminating an employee.
• Outsourcing HR Services
  A great money saving and time saving idea is to outsource your HR department to an on-line company. Here’s how it works:
• Managing A Virtual Staff
  Sara Fell, CEO of Flexjobs, offers four key principles for managing a virtual staff.
• Pre-emptive Layoffs
  When the economy is struggling, timing is everything in keeping your business afloat, or as Jason points out, you can’t be too early, but you can be too late.
• Finding Top Employees Using Employment Agencies
  While it is obviously easy to find people using the Internet, and we highly support that, there is also satisfaction in working with good recruiters.
• Writing an Offer Letter
  Putting everything in writing is not just paranoia, but good common sense, and the offer letter is no exception. Handshakes must be followed by documentation.
• Lean and Clean Staffing
  Whether you are launching a new business or growing an existing one, the biggest run on money is often the HR costs. Spartina’s philosophy, echoed by successful entrepreneurs, is: Keep it small.
• Writing a Welcome Letter
  Be sure to take time to welcome a new employee and start them out on the right foot.
• Independent Contractor or Employee?
  Leveraging contractor services can help your cash flow as your start your company, if you know the rules.
• Separation Pay & Agreement
  Offering severance pay is a way of professionally terminating an agreement where everyone feels okay about a situation that could be distressing.
• Terminating an Employee
  If termination becomes necessary, always follow HR best practices in order to reduce the company’s risk around the termination and to demonstrate compassion towards the employee.