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As more employees work from home or places other than your office, consider these services to help you keep everyone on the same page.

Before you join the co-working space frenzy, here are a few pros and cons to consider.

For cash-strapped startups, forgoing an office space is a keen way to save money. But what do you do to keep loneliness at bay? Here are some tips.

These web apps can help you know if your remote workers are on task or slacking off.

Yahoo and Best Buy may have concluded that telecommuting doesn't work for their companies anymore, but it could still make sense for your business.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer stirred controversy this week by requiring employees report to the office, but not everyone thinks it's a bad idea.

How to relieve anxiety and remain productive when you can't make it into the office.

Creating and fostering the character of your company is imperative, even if your employees don't all share the same four walls.

There’s a federal drive on to have more workers stay home from the office. Both houses of Congress recently passed new bills that would stiffen the requirements for federal agencies on telework. But remote workers aren’t just for big government departments. A new study from the Telework Research Network shows the substantial benefits to letting […]

You may know one of the few items in the big healthcare reform bill that takes effect this year is a small-business credit for offering healthcare to employees. If you’ve delved into it, you know it’s based on a really complicated formula. Fortunately, there’s some new help out there for business owners trying to understand […]

With national healthcare reform a done deal, it’s interesting to see how some industries are moving to solve the problem now instead of waiting until 2014. Last week, the restaurant industry made its bold move–the National Restaurant Association announced a partnership with United Health Group that will allow independent, small-restaurant owners to offer their workers […]

Entrepreneurs in their 50s and 60s are becoming business owners faster than any other group.

There’s one really interesting question raised by the freshly signed healthcare reform bill, but it hasn’t been discussed much. Once there’s affordable insurance available through state-based exchanges for individuals and small companies in 2014, how many people will leave their jobs? If the answer turns out to be “many,” it could affect entrepreneurs in several […]

Not everybody was rejoicing at the House of Representatives’ landmark approval of its long-fought healthcare reform bill. Business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Retail Federation and National Association of Manufacturers are on the stump to get the Senate to block the bill. The Chamber called the House bill “dangerous,” saying it will […]

No issue has polarized the small-business community in recent years like healthcare reform. With Congress back in session, all eyes will be on the lawmakers tackling the daunting task of reconciling the House and Senate versions of the healthcare reform bill. Change won’t come fast enough to help small businesses caught in the buzz-saw of […]

The whole healthcare-reform debate hit home for me this week. I’ve been ignoring a large envelope that came from my health insurance agent about a month ago. They left me a sort of ominous-sounding phone message about it, too, but I hadn’t had a chance to call back. You know how sometimes when you can […]

It’s been a crazy couple weeks on the national healthcare reform issue. Angry mobs have turned up to shout at legislators at town hall meetings. Academics have decried the 8 percent payroll tax businesses that businesses would pay if they fail to offer their employees healthcare coverage under the proposed America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. […]