By Karyn Chylewski As far as age and impact go, for us Gen-Xers, some may say we are past our so-called prime, that we are on the verge of being dismissed, becoming irrelevant, and have had #ourturn. With all the buzz around millennials and their coming of age, as far as they are concerned, it […]
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Welcome to the toxic workplace! You may have already been here before, actually. Maybe you worked for a business you knew was bad out of necessity. You might have taken the job for a paycheck, desperate to find work, only to discover a unpleasant company culture and dysfunctional boss lurking beneath the surface. The inverse
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Finding and keeping qualified small business employees is more challenging than ever. With job openings growing and unemployment at record lows, one way to attract candidates to your business—and retain the employees you already have—is to offer the ability to work remotely. Working remotely is a popular benefit for employees, but before allowing remote work,
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As you add new members to your team, making them feel welcome can go a long way in helping the onboarding process go easier and more quickly. Your employees will appreciate the effort and will remember how you treated them as new hires. That’s why we asked 15 successful entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC)
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In 1908, a New England cotton mill instituted the first rule that Jewish workers would not have to work on Saturdays, their Sabbath. A few years later, in 1926, Henry Ford opted to close his factories on Sunday, too—and so began the five-day work week as we know it. For nearly a century, businesses have
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Finding top talent isn’t easy, nor is it cheap. Small businesses are especially at a disadvantage when it comes to recruiting employees because they may not have the funds to spend on attracting top talent to their firms. And once great employees have been hired, retaining them becomes equally challenging. Larger companies are able to
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When creativity is one of your company’s core values, you get to work alongside some super-talented people. And when super-talented people have good ideas, things like Freddie’s Makers Market happens. It all started with an email from Ashe, one of our Billing Coordinators. “I was thinking, as we get closer to the holidays, what if
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An interview can be a terrifying thing. The only way to get better at them is practice, but getting that practice can be tricky, too. In a 1:1 conversation with MailChimp’s VP of Development, Eric Muntz, I’d mentioned an idea for using my 16 hours of volunteer time. We’d been talking about an internal event
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Onboarding is the process of starting new employees at your business, where you and the worker fill out a slew of new employee forms. But onboarding shouldn’t end when the last of the paperwork is signed. Onboarding should also help acclimate employees to their new job and work environment. To reduce turnover, you need to
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Humility is one of MailChimp’s core values, and it can manifest in our daily lives in a variety of ways, from accidentally broadcasting silence during our weekly radio shows to admitting failure to hundreds of our peers. Recently we had the opportunity to have Kim Scott, author of bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing
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