Posts by ADP®

Getting a business off the ground takes money, and for some businesses, that means getting outside funding, whether from investors or lenders. Sometimes, an angel investor is the right answer. But what is an angel investor, and when are they an appropriate funding source? How do you go about pitching to an angel investor? Get…

For many businesses, the holiday season is the busiest time of the year. But at the same time, that’s when many people on your team are looking to take time off for traveling and celebrating those very same holidays. So how do you satisfy these conflicting problems? The ADP blog team has some suggestions, including…

Your workspace affects your employee productivity—and their health. And while there may be some aspects of your workspace that is negatively impacting your team, many problems are relatively easy and cheap to solve. Looking at Leigh Stringer’s book The Healthy Workplace: How to Improve the Well-Being of Your Employees—and Boost Your Company’s Bottom Line, we’ve…

If a former employee who resigned from your company wants to come back, there are some important benefits to making that move, given the right situation. Bringing a former employee back onboard will be more cost-effective in terms of training and onboarding, and it’s possible their time away has resulted in some additional skills and…

If you rely on your POS system for time and wage data, that is some of the most important data you have, and manual data entry can be time-consuming—and ultimately very expensive in terms of using your time as the business owner. But there are ways to use your POS system and transfer all that…

When we’re looking to hire a new employee, many of us focus on active job seekers—the people are out there actively looking for a job. But you can really benefit by finding ways to sell your business to passive job seekers—people who are not actively looking for a new job, but will accept an offer…

The Millennial Generation has been the subject of countless articles and studies, describing their workplace habits, life progression, consumer choices, and more. And now the workplace is getting ready to welcome the next generation: Generation Z. Authors David and Jonah Stillman define Generation Z as Americans born after 1995, and they’ve begun cataloguing some of…

Employees and candidates aren’t just looking at salary and wage numbers. They’re considering the broad array of benefits that you’re offering. It’s important to offer benefits that appeal to the kind of people you’re looking to hire, while not wasting your resources on offering benefits that your employees don’t have any interest in. The ADP…