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A Mid-Year Review of Your Strategic Plan
Strategic planning is a road map for the future that businesses and their leadership rely on to develop short-term, long-term, and contingency plans. This time of year offers leaders a chance to review their planning process and make necessary adjustments in order to...
Navigating Return To Work Uncertainty During a Pandemic
Since March 2020 the Covid-19 virus has taught employers a key lesson about running a business during a global pandemic. During uncertain times, flexibility is the only consistency in a stream of ever-changing variables impacting businesses. Earlier this summer with...
Celebrating 20 Years of Business
Twenty years ago on July 15th, 2001, Juli Bacon started her Human Resource consulting company, JB Consulting Systems. At the time, she was raising a four-year-old son and expecting her second child and realized that there had to be a shift in her own work/life...
Pride Month and Beyond: Supporting LGBTQ+ Employees
The spirit of Pride Month is celebrated every year in the month of June. It’s a time of celebration for the LGBTQ+ community and an opportunity to raise awareness of the inequalities, violence against and persecution of the LGBTQ+-community over the past few decades....
Build Your Dream Team
The sporting world knows the drill when it comes to winning. There’s no one secret ingredient or secret formula for creating a winning team. Ask any athletic coach, trainer or owner of a sports franchise and they’ll likely tell you that building a high performing and...
New Washington State Tax for Long-Term Care
If you are an employer with W-2 Employees in the State of Washington, you will be required to collect and remit a new Payroll tax on all Gross Wages effective January 1st, 2022. This tax is intended to provide Long Term Care (LTC) coverage at a rate of $100 a day for...
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Embracing the Work-from-Home Model: Our 22-Year Journey at JB Consulting Systems
I'm Juli Bacon, the founder of JB Consulting Systems, and I want to take you on a journey through our company's 22-year history as a fully remote business. This story isn't just about remote work; it's about the philosophy of work-life integration and how it has...
Important Compliance Update: New I-9 Form Requirements
Everything You Need to Know About The New Form I-9 Changes The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced changes that impact the Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9, as well as the introduction of new guidelines for...
Could Hiring Actually Grow Your Business?
Learn The Signs It's Time to Hire This blog post started as a gratitude post for an amazing employee, and quickly morphed into a lesson in growing a small business. How could I not share a business lesson that someone shared with me? As a business owner, it can...
Top 4 Reasons Recruiters Struggle to Find the Right Candidates
The Recruiting Disconnect Recruiting is a challenging task that requires a lot of time and effort. Despite the best hiring efforts, it’s not uncommon for there to be a struggle to find the right candidates for open positions. At the same time, candidates often feel...
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