In order to maintain the balance of employed labor and contracted labor the employer must have a basic understanding of their current capacity and productivity. Real capacity can only be established by understanding their current…
Balancing Employees and Contract Labor
The Balancing Act of Life
For the last 7 (yes seven) years, I have been attending school, while managing 2 kids (3 if you count my husband) and work. I’m hoping all this hard work will teach my kids to…
Knowing When to Cross Train
Setpoint is a small business that is agile and can adjust as quickly as the management team can move. Everyone wears multiple hats, but in most job functions, we are only one layer deep. If…
Review of 4-Day Work Week
It has been just over one year since we converted from a 5-day work week, to a 4-day work week. My job was to analyze whether the 4-day work week brought more money to our…
Health Savings Accounts
Setpoint Systems, like most small companies, has experienced huge increases in health care insurance. We have had our share of health challenges in our small group. Several years ago we went to a new Health…