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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...
Interviewing Mistakes Hiring Managers Make
Some things in life can be done by “winging it,” where spontaneity is the name of the game. Perhaps it’s an unplanned road trip along the Pacific Coast Scenic Highway. Or an impulse purchase of something you’ve had your eye on for some time. However, spontaneity...
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Master the ADA Interactive Process: A Guide to Reasonable Accommodations
Under certain laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Washington State disability laws, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (Title VII), employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with a...
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...
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