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With remote work quickly becoming the norm in many organizations, including ASE, it has changed the way we must manage employees.

Today companies engage the services of turnaround professionals in order to take their business to the next level, resolve cash flow problems, operations issues or to work out problems with lenders due to a lack of liquidity or, in the worst case, severe insolvency requiring restructuring.

Although conventional business wisdom has held that employees should check their political opinions at the door while at work, with the heated presidential election less than a year away that isn’t always the case.

Many organizations set goals and plan to execute projects at the start of the year and in many cases additional staff is necessary to achieve said plans. However, recruiting can be difficult, especially during the holidays. 

Many small business owners don’t believe they are targets of hackers, cybercriminals or identity thieves and effectively, as a result, they become sitting ducks. Just because small business cyber attacks aren’t reported as often as large-scale incidents, doesn’t mean they don’t happen.

Did you know that although your business may only be physically located in Michigan, if you ship your products to customers in other states, you may also be required to collect and/or remit sales or use taxes to those other states?

According to ASE’s Workplace Flexibility Survey, it is not uncommon for organizations to offer flexible hours (83%) or telecommuting (62%) options to their staff, but only 23% of Michigan employers offer compressed workweeks. Could this be changing soon?

Learn more about alternatives for finding HR solutions when Jim Stowe is interviewed this week by Michael Rogers for SBAM’s Small Business Weekly Podcast.

Profit and Loss statements are nice, but at the end of the day what truly matters is cash flow. Cash is King!

Emerging technological trends are designed to make the customer service experience faster, smoother, more accurate and easier. There is one thing that hasn’t changed though—the human being on the consuming end of our products and services.