When expanding your business, sometimes finding the right talent can be challenging. You can hire a full-time employee or find the best freelancer for the job. This blog post discusses five simple steps to hire a freelancer that will fit your needs!

Unified Communications (UC) is revolutionizing how projects are managed in our ever-globalizing world. Can you imagine how hard it can be to coordinate a project team spread across various time zones? Traditional communication methods could bog things down, and create snarls that no project manager ever wants to deal with. This is where UC comes in — transforming what could be a chaotic mess into a finely-tuned interactions that are effective.

The importance of employee engagement for the success of any firm is becoming increasingly generally recognized. A highly engaged workforce not only produces more and is more profitable, but it also has a lower turnover rate, which can save a company a significant amount of money. One strategy to raise employee engagement is to give them more responsibility for their projects.

We’re in the project economy—where a large part of our work revolves around innovating a new product or service. Even if you’re not a project manager, you might have embraced the responsibilities of one to manage a project at some point and would have utilized project planning. The art of project planning requires strategic thinking about how to achieve a desired goal.

Serving as a link between the hiring process and complete integration into the organization, onboarding is an essential stage in the employee lifecycle. Productivity, work happiness, and employee retention can all be strongly impacted by a well-organized onboarding process. Onboarding strategies need to change with businesses, and they can benefit from ongoing innovation and improvement.

A recent poll conducted by Apna.co offers valuable insights into the reasons behind the decision of many professionals to stay with a single firm for extended periods of time, in a time when career transfers are common. With the evaluation season quickly approaching, this poll sought to unravel the expectations and objectives of today’s workforce by gathering opinions from 10,000 professionals in a variety of sectors.

The data doesn’t lie—a good onboarding process leads to happier, more productive employees. But while onboarding can increase retention rates by 82%, only 12% of employees strongly agree that their organization does a great job of onboarding new hires. Creating a smooth onboarding process is challenging, so it’s not surprising that some organizations fall short. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Are you feeling overwhelmed with work and trying to find a way to improve your productivity and work-life balance? The 2-2-3 schedule may be the answer you’re looking for! This unique schedule involves working two days, taking two days off, and then working three days in a row, allowing for a better balance between work and leisure. Not only does this schedule increase productivity, but it also helps to prevent burnout and enhances creativity.