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Onboarding new employees is crucial to establishing a relationship with them. When new team members don’t start off on the right foot, they are more likely to be unhappy, disengaged and move on quickly. It’s important to have an established plan for employee onboarding. Here are a few tips: Start before the first day Onboarding […]

Say what you want about millennials, but they continue to enter the workforce. Chances are, you are working aside a few of them right now. In fact, there are now more millennials than Gen X-ers in the workforce, according to Pew Research. With so many young folks flooding into jobs across the country, it may seem unnecessary […]

Reposted from avalara.com Transient occupancy taxes are levied on facilities that provide accommodations for customers. The obvious model is a hotel or motel. But that might be the only thing that’s obvious about these taxes. Like sales taxes, transient occupancy taxes—sometimes called hotel or lodging taxes—can get applied in convoluted ways by state and local […]

Repost from Avalara.com Life lessons. They’re never ending. There’s the stuff that you’d like to learn like paddle boarding, pasta rolling, conversational Spanish, and there’s the stuff that you have to learn, like web design, drywall hanging, and programming the DVR. We’re guessing sales tax falls into the latter category. Because, let’s face it, unless […]

Repost from Avalara.com Location, location, location. The number one rule in real estate is now the tipping point in the debate on Internet sales tax. Battling legislation calls into play the fairness of destination versus origin sourcing when applying sales tax rules. While lawmakers continue to drag their feet on a formal decision, there’s no […]

Repost from Avalara.com Salt. Tea. Whiskey. Wine. Transportation. Sanitation. Consumption. Burdensome consumer taxation dates backs centuries, sparking riots, revolts and even two revolutionary wars. The “gabelle,” a tax on salt by the French monarchy is said to have led to the French Revolution and the Boston Tea Party, an uprising by America’s colonists against Britain’s […]

Data visualizations, when done properly, are the best and easiest way for us to understand a vast amount of information. Businesses are able to utilize data visualizations to great advantage, from summarizing annual sales report to visualizing marketing strategies in an easy-to-understand format, and much more. A poorly presented visualization, however, can not only show […]

Apple holds their Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) each year to introduce their new products and platforms. This year, the tech giant has announced the arrival of the latest iOS version, which contains several application additions and revamps, as well as changes to design and interface. The new iOS 9 is coming soon to all Apple […]

Microsoft recently announced its plans to phase out their current Office 365 E4 suite and replace it with a new, premium package known as E5. While a release date has yet to be specified, Microsoft has stated that they intend to make the product available by the end of this year. What does this mean […]