We have spoken before on the increase of technology and how it is changing the modern office, yet 2015 is looking to push the idea of the digital office even further than ever before. Smart devices, programs, and interfaces are breaking out of their former molds and spiraling into new directions. Windows is looking to bring their Microsoft Office software fully into a touchscreen format. Samsung is designing a smart phone with a bending screen

December is finally here. Decorations are being hung from palm trees and the weather is getting colder. This can all mean just one thing. Christmas time is just around the corner. This is the time of year that the stores and businesses really come to life with toys and gifts flying off the shelves. Customers crowd the aisles and the cashiers are working nonstop from open to close.

How many films have shown the discontent office worker? He steps out of an elevator into a large room with copy and pasted rows of cubicles. He sits down in his own little dull tan or off white cubicle and clicks away at a keyboard. This is the repetitive recipe that makes up his weekdays. Everyday sitting in the same little dull colored cubicle listening to the crunching of keyboards. Just reading about his day kind of puts you in a worse mood doesn’t it?

Is your payroll growing faster than you ever expected? Maybe you are a first time business owner and didn’t know what to expect. It is even possible you never thought this idea of yours would take off in such a way. Regardless of how you got here, what matters is where you are going to be next.

To run a successful business, one key feature is to stay in control of it. It doesn’t matter if you own a small town candy store or the Willy Wonka chocolate factory, you have to be on top of things. Focus too much on one aspect of business, and another can suffer and lose productivity, profit, or both. This is why several large companies work through levels and branches of management.

The year is coming to an end, and it is time to start looking at making a plan for the New Year. You got your business through 2014. Maybe it is time to take that success and push it even further in 2015. But how will you make that push forward?

For an employee, the payroll doesn’t begin in the payroll department, it begins in timekeeping. Payroll may decide a person’s wages, but none of that has any effect until the employee clocks into their job. This is why for payroll to reach it’s full potential, a company must have an effective method of timekeeping. Luckily for growing companies, both payroll and timekeeping can be outsourced to one company to make the progress smoother and increase productivity.

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Running a business is as rewarding as it is burdening. Like a tree, it starts as a simple idea planted in the ground. In time it grows and branches started going off in every direction. Those branches then expand into even more branches. What started as a simple idea is now expanding in every direction. How do you manage it all? You take care of the core of your company and let others help take care of the branches.

A company is only as strong as it’s weakest link. When that weakest link is found in the management team, the effects can be that much more stressful. A manager can not just be dedicated, they have to be competent and experienced. They have to work with the employees while making sure the employees still understand the chain of command.