Multiple shows will be going on in the next few months, and it is important for contractors to get a return on their travel investment.

It is so important for contractors to be more creative in retaining the valuable workers they already have.

Unless you do financial training, your employees will see the “stuff” that it takes to run the business, but will have no clue of the true costs.

A friend of mine runs the mechanical systems group at a data center. It’s a decent job and he likes it most of the time. But, like many people, he sometimes wonders if there might be a little greener grass or new horizons to be found elsewhere. So when a local school district let it be known they were looking for an experienced HVAC guy to take care of the systems at their brand-new combined high school/middle school, he looked into it. And the interview experience was eye-opening.

Marketing functions as the middleman — informing those with the broken air conditioner that there is somebody nearby who can fix it.

As mandatory leave laws continue to proliferate, employers will be confronted with the demanding and complex obligations that apply under such laws.