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EPA resources for managing and reducing waste

Scott E. Rupp Facilities & Grounds

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers a guide to reducing waste for commercial building facility managers. For those in the profession, the guide might be old news, but for rookies and veterans alike it serves as a good educational tool for those who manage office buildings, schools, stores, hotels, restaurants and other commercial and institutional buildings.

How compensation decisions are made

Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk Management

From the fervor over a $15 per hour minimum wage to robots coming to take people's jobs to the impact of the new overtime regulations, compensation is on the minds and hearts of just about everyone in the U.S. Before you can begin to get a handle on any of these issues, you first must have a basic understanding of how employers make compensation decisions.

Start off right with the new boss

Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Whether the new boss was promoted from within or an unknown entity, getting off on the right foot is critical to setting the stage for the new relationship. Here are a few simple tips about what to do — and not do — to start off right with the new boss.

Negotiating commercial leases: Give the loser one last chance

Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield Retail

For many commercial tenants, negotiating a good lease or lease renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can be a challenge. While an entrepreneur focuses on marketing and managing, savvy real estate agents and brokers are specialized salespeople. Their job is to sell tenants on leasing their location at the highest possible rental rate.

3 easy leadership upgrades

Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

One common characteristic of good leaders is that they are always working on being better. Sometimes that involves indulging in a formal, off-site leadership program at a big-name school. Other times, it can be more reflective: taking the time to read and learn from a compelling book.

Practical guidelines for monitoring the workplace

D. Albert Brannen Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Technology and "big data" now make it possible for employers to monitor and record all aspects of what employees may do, say or write in the workplace. Employers have legitimate needs to monitor employees while at work, but the use of monitoring technologies is limited by a variety of federal, state and local laws and legal theories.

Trade tensions: China, US dispute over tariffs grows

Seth Sandronsky Manufacturing

With $50 billion in tariffs already on the way, President Donald Trump on April 5 directed the U.S Trade Representative to explore placing an additional $100 billion of tariffs on Chinese goods entering the U.S. The threat of higher prices on Chinese exports to the U.S. (and the expected retaliation from China) shook financial markets on Thursday and Friday.

When politics and business mix, what should companies do?

Mashaal Ryan Marketing

When your business decides to connect its advertising to a celebrity or notable public persona, you always run the risk of what that person may say or do in the public eye. With social media and instant news, it becomes more difficult to hide blemishes — regardless of how great a publicist that celebrity may have. When controversy hits, the companies that sponsor the person must then decide how to react to the events.

Payrolls grow by 103,000 jobs in March

Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Employers added 103,000 new nonfarm jobs in March vs. 313,000 in February and 200,000 January, as the unemployment rate held at 4.1 percent for the sixth straight month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Job growth occurred in healthcare, manufacturing and mining.

Can AI actually make recruiting more ‘human’?

Shawn Smajstrla Science & Technology

In the news last week was a recruiter named Vera. What made Vera newsworthy is that she's a robot. A Russian startup developed Vera, and big-names like PepsiCo, Ikea and L'Oréal are listed among the 300 or so clients already using the artificially intelligent software to help vet for open positions.

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