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Hidden Paycheck Revealed

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Michael R. commented on Ann Clifford's blog post 'Employees Jump Ship'
Employees have been getting the short end of the stick for far too long; it's nice to see that people are waking up and realizing that employers have ZERO loyalty to them.
December 17
Ann Clifford is now friends with Simon Andrews and Whitney Lushin
December 16
MT Ray commented on Ann Clifford's blog post 'Employees Jump Ship'
Totally agree Ann---great post!
December 16
Nicole Stultz commented on Ann Clifford's blog post 'Employees Jump Ship'
It'll definitely be interesting to see how the upswing in the economy effects business as well as employment. Employees have had to "hang on for dear life" so to speak to keep their jobs through the recession. I can see where the tables might turn w…
December 15
Julie Grice commented on Ann Clifford's blog post 'Employees Jump Ship'
Whew. It that the truth! Thanks for sharing, Ann.
December 15
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Expect 2010 to be the year of musical chairs as employees begin to jump ship for better employment opportunities. The aftermath of a recession is employee disengagement. Unfortunately, your key players won’t tell you they are dissatisfied until they…
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Expect 2010 to be the year of musical chairs as employees begin to jump ship for better employment opportunities. The aftermath of a recession is employee disengagement. Unfortunately, your key players won’t tell you they are dissatisfied until they…
December 14
Chris Theisen replied to Ann Clifford's discussion 'Hidden Paycheck Revealed'
I agree where you are going with this topic. I replied to Drews post more in depth a second ago. Im not connected to both of you I saw 2 blog/discussions posted on the same site. Most people on Smaller Indiana see the forum discussions pop up regard…
December 4

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How did you hear about Smaller Indiana?
Friend
What is your greatest strength?
Helping companies hire better!
What are you working on?
Recently became the HR alliance partner for a life science company in Indianapolis. We are actively hiring mid and senior level manager in quality control, R&D,, program management and manufacturing.
How big is your business?
small company
What is your Job Title
Owner
What is your Company Website?
http://www.safarisolutions.com
What is your alma mater?
Indiana University

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Ann Clifford

Employees Jump Ship

Expect 2010 to be the year of musical chairs as employees begin to jump ship for better employment opportunities. The aftermath of a recession is employee disengagement. Unfortunately, your key players won’t tell you they are dissatisfied until they are walking out the door. As well-performing companies start to cherry pick top talent, it begins a chain of employee turnover events that will affect many companies.

72% of employers restructured or laid off employees since the recession began in 2… Continue

Posted on December 14, 2009 at 9:28am — 4 Comments

Ann Clifford

Hidden Paycheck Revealed

Do you know what a “hidden paycheck” is? You are in good company if you don’t. According to a study by George S. May International, less than 50% of business owners are aware of the term.

A “hidden paycheck” are expenses you incur as an employer that don’t show up on your employees’ paystubs. These employment costs (benefits) include:

Health benefits
Sick, personal and vacations days
Workers compensation
Social Security and Medicare
Educational reimbursements
Disability insurance

Paul Rauseo,… Continue

Posted on December 3, 2009 at 12:09pm —

Ann Clifford

HR Lite Culture: Is it right for your biz?

At what point does a start-up or a small business need HR? In my experience many small businesses feel comfortable as long as their payroll company is handling payroll reporting properly. Yet, as the business grows, the need for standardization in managing people develops. Policies on vacation, sick time, harassment, dress attire and much more begin to surface.

I’ve heard clients use the term “HR Lite” to express their internal HR structure. Basically, they don’t want rules to stifle their grow… Continue

Posted on November 23, 2009 at 1:21pm —

Ann Clifford

Talent: Build vs Buy

Had an interesting discussion with a new client about whether it is better to build or buy talent. I’ve had similar conversations with other clients over the years. Small businesses face the dilemma frequently. Do they hire and train newbies, or do they hire experience? It may appear to be cheaper in the short run to hire and train newbies. But, you have to spend a lot of management time to train newbies and the ramp up time for them to become effective in their jobs is long. Yet, if you hire ex… Continue

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 4:48pm —

Ann Clifford

Talent: Do you have a “Who” Problem

I had the recent privilege of participating in a “how to hire” workshop conducted by Geoff Smart, author of the NY Times best selling book, WHO. His tagline on his book is, “Knowing what to do is not the major challenge faced by executives — finding who to do it is!”

Geoff Smart is a very smart man. (Pun intended.) Geoff has been helping major corpora… Continue

Posted on June 20, 2009 at 4:30pm —

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At 5:49pm on September 17, 2009, Dan Lacy said…
Ann - wrote an article about employee problems in the business newspaper and quoted you - hope you don't mind.
At 11:21pm on April 26, 2009, Dan Miller said…
Ann,

I am so glad to be a part of Smaller Indiana and and as such I want to give you a token of my thanks for being a big part of Indy's growing business partnership.
I am the owner of Veterans Computer Solutions and we are proud to be a service company interested in helping to build other minority or women owned businesses. To that end we would like to offer Safari Solutions a complementary 1 year subscription to our network maintenance service.

Our maintenance subscription provides monthly maintenance on all computers and servers attached to your network. This program applies all updates from Microsoft, AntiVirus and Spyware programs, runs diagnostics on all hardware and tweaks systems for optimal performance.

Please let me know when we could stop in an finalize the maintenance subscription.

Thanks

Dan
At 3:30pm on February 26, 2009, Brandon Sobotka said…
Thank you for speaking with me yesterday Ann. I appreciate your insight and advice!
At 11:32am on February 19, 2009, Brandon Sobotka said…
Hi Ann. I unexpectedly had a few things pop up last week, but I would still appreciate to opportunity to talk. Are you available anytime next week. I still have your #, may I contact you early next week.
At 8:39am on February 4, 2009, Brandon Sobotka said…
Hi Ann! I read your profile and I was curious if maybe would could assist each other. I'm looking to connect with HR professionals. Im sure you're extremely busy, but may I steal a few minutes of your time?
At 11:22pm on February 1, 2009, Brandon Sobotka said…
Thank you for the comment. I'll definitely put the book on my list of future reading material.
At 5:42pm on January 21, 2009, Kyle Lacy said…
ANN! Good to meet you last night :)
At 9:18am on January 20, 2009, Deborah Denman said…
Hello Ann, good to see you on here, I will be at the function tonight hope to see you there.
At 12:31pm on January 16, 2009, Brian Rowe said…
Ann,
Glad you found me on Smaller Indiana. We have started to do very well as our positioning has been effective for the declining economy as businesses seem more willing to work with smaller more nimble companies than maybe they had in the past. I hope things are going well for you.
At 12:27pm on January 16, 2009, Chris Baggott said…
keep it up Ann. I'm finding that if you set a really stiff goal you get a lot more productive. One thing about Compendium, it is absolutely a volume driven strategy.

I'm not sure if you saw one of my posts the other day. We doubled our posts from 225 in the third quarter to over 500 in the fourth and our traffic increased by a factor of 5. It Quintupled!

Set your goal for 5 posts a day and see what happens.

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