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Want to boost jobsite productivity? Let your employees set their own hours

Did you know we shouldn’t be working 40-plus hours per week? Apparently, economists of old predicted that, with advances in technology, our workday would be so efficient we would have trouble filling our leisure hours. Ha. Everyone is working longer hours. When they finish at the office, they take more work home. (If you really […]

July 22, 2013

Contractor Stief Counts let his employees set their own hours with great success.

Want your construction business to be more successful? Diversify your personnel.

In interviewing contractors across the country for our Contractor of the Year program, Equipment World editors get a pretty good sense of what works—and what doesn’t—across a range of business practices. Because turnover in the construction industry is such a problem, I’m always interested to see what strategies contractors use to recruit and retain. However, […]

June 28, 2013

Prepare your construction business for tax changes brought on by Fiscal Cliff

Although you’ve certainly heard of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 – the bill to avert the fiscal cliff passed January 1 – you might not know everything that’s in it, other than the widely-publicized expiration of favorable tax exemption limits and the increase in the payroll tax. So, is there anything buried in […]

March 4, 2013

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