How to Respond to a Marketplace Appeal Notice

  Employers often begin to receive Marketplace Appeal Notices after the Healthcare Marketplace’s open enrollment period ends.  The letter notifies employers of employees who enrolled in Marketplace coverage and obtained an advanced premium tax credit for at least...

What Goes Up, Must Eventually Come Down

With 24/7 media coverage and so many choices to gather information we are not lacking for options when trying to forecast economic activity.  The largest discrepancy in these forecasts is the timing of the next recession.  We are in the midst of the longest running...

When You Can’t Find Talent, Outsourcing is Ideal

                  Professionals change jobs for lots of reasons – better pay, different office environment, new city, larger role etc. What’s important to note is that professionals are changing jobs more often than ever...

Outsourcing – Is it a Dirty Word?

              The word outsourcing conjures up a lot of negative images, especially for small business owners. It suggests job cuts, loss of control, and lack of transparency. According to popular thinking, businesses that outsource...

6 Degrees of Separation

  Forty five years ago Stanley Milgram mailed out parcels to one hundred people in Omaha, NE working on his “six degrees of separation”. His whimsical method gave him the theory but not the proof. That changed in 2011 when the scale of Facebook proved that he was...