Category: Workforce Management

Navigating the Future: SMB Workforce and Workplace Trends for 2024

Navigating the Future: SMB Workforce and Workplace Trends for 2024

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are continually adapting to rapid changes in the workforce and workplace, and staying ahead of the curve is more crucial than ever. The latest eBook from SMB Group, SMB Workforce and Workplace Trends for 2024, sponsored by Dell Technologies and Zoho, examines SMB workforce, workplace, and collaboration plans and trends. […]
Back to the Future: Current HR Strategies to Future-proof Small Businesses

Back to the Future: Current HR Strategies to Future-proof Small Businesses

How can SMBs future-proof their HR strategy? In this Mineral webinar, I spoke with Mineral’s Kelley Butler, Marketing Manager, and Kerry Lear, JD and Senior Director of Content Services to discuss the implications of Mineral’s 2023 State of HR Report. The report, produced jointly by Mineral and SMB Group, surveyed more than 700 decision-makers at […]
SMB Business and Technology Challenges and Priorities for 2023: New eBook from SMB Group

SMB Business and Technology Challenges and Priorities for 2023: New eBook from SMB Group

2022 was a turbulent year for SMBs—and this turbulence is continuing into 2023. Even as many challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic recede, others, including inflation and recession, have become top SMB concerns. Amidst this ongoing uncertainty, SMB Group examines U.S. SMBs’ challenges and priorities for 2023 in our SMB Business and Technology Priorities for […]

SMB Directions for the Future of Work: New eBook From SMB Group

In the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, small and medium businesses (SMBs) have been faced with change, challenges, and opportunities. These shifts have dramatically impacted the SMB  workplace and workforce, where the power dynamic has tipped from employers to employees. SMB Group’s SMB D...

Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Leading the Way into the Next Work Normal

If there’s a silver lining to COVID-19, it’s that many people have taken advantage of this time to pause and reflect on their lives, and ask, “What’s working and what’s not?” As a result, some have decided to change different aspects of their lives—from careers to living locations, and from lifestyles to spouses. The shift has been seismic in the employment market—and is giving...

Navigating the Great Resignation: Advice for SMBs

Last week, I had the pleasure of joining Matt Crawford, director of Product Marketing at Citrix, and Anita Campbell, Small Business Trends Founder and CEO, to discuss the challenges, as well as opportunities that small and medium businesses (SMBs) face during the current “Great Resignation” on a Linke...

Women in Engineering: Five Female STEM Professionals Who Changed Our World

As women continue in their quest to break glass ceilings and remove barriers to career achievement, their great work is perhaps most visible in the STEM fields. There, female innovators have contributed invaluably to our scientific and technological landscape, often while facing obstacles and discrimination on the path accomplishing their goals. Today, the number of