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Please join us in congratulating our incredible client Quikly on making the Crain’s Detroit Business Top 100 list of cool places to work! This fast-growing Detroit-based company offers a wide range of digital marketing solutions and has rapidly grown as a cutting-edge technology company while creating a dynamic workplace culture. Their low turnover combined with [...]

Our partner, Vehicles for Change, has introduced a new Executive Director of Vehicles for Change Detroit, Ms. Phaedra Wainaina. As a proud Detroit native, Phaedra has exhibited a longstanding commitment to the city and its residents. Phaedra’s strong desire to serve is rooted in her belief that social welfare of any community begins with service. [...]

The 2018 Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference is several months in the rearview mirror, but the discussions that took place on the island shouldn’t be swept aside. While important topics are raised at these annual conferences, the desired change never takes place there. It takes place in the weeks and months between these annual [...]

By: Greg Packer, Chairman & CEO Earlier this year, I wrote you to help clarify the new tax reform laws as it relates to our PEO industry specifically. Today, we have finally received guidance from the Department of Treasury which confirms our original analysis. Below is a release from our trade association, NAPEO, in Washington, [...]

In a perfect world, employees completely understand what their manager expects of them, making a performance review irrelevant. Imagine having a workforce full of “model employees” – the kind that work hard at their job, produce timely results and don’t slouch in their duties? Reality check time. Despite the dream of many new managers, most [...]

How to manage the phenomenon of telecommuting You’ve probably noticed an increasing number of people in coffee shops with laptops open and earbuds in place. It’s a common sight everywhere with access to wi-fi and an electrical outlet. But what are they all doing? Most likely, they’re hard at work. “Telecommuting” used to be a [...]

Many younger workers are exposed to the workforce through a variety of seasonal jobs taking place in warm weather. These largely outdoor jobs in a variety of fields, including landscaping and farming, offer the unique benefit of full shifts in the sunshine and warm summer weather. However, the unique work environment for many seasonal summer [...]

Every semester AccessPoint Educational HR recognizes an outstanding teacher for going above and beyond to help their school and students. The winner of the 2018 Spring Semester is Danielle Oster, a teacher at Grand Traverse Academy in Traverse City, Michigan. We want to congratulate Danielle on her valuable work as a teacher and all the work or all [...]

Our Safety and Risk Manager, Scott Van Den Bosch, sat down with Detroit Channel 7 to share what workers should do outside as the weather begins to heat up. Wear reflective clothing when appropriate and loose-fitting, light colors Stay hydrated; drink plenty of water Communicate with superiors/co-workers Take breaks when needed We work hard to [...]

Every day companies must prioritize dozens of projects and initiatives and often, emergency preparedness falls to the wayside in favor of more pressing issues. However, any organization that’s ever suffered a calamitous event would urge you to prepare as soon as possible. If your company is as busy as most, then it probably never seems [...]

Employers Need Strategies to Protect Outdoor Workers from Heat Safety Risks When we think about people who work outdoors, we tend to think how tough it must be in the winter. Surely the outdoor worker looks forward to the spring and the onset of summer even more profoundly than the average person. But working outdoors [...]

Crain’s Business Detroit provided us all with a look at some especially interesting stories and spotlight people from around Detroit. Stories of fleeing persecution and following dreams to a new land and how they found business success.  Our President & COO, Luis Perez, was one of those stories. Luis’s parents left socialist Cuba in 1968 [...]