Paid parental leave
Paid maternity and parental leave: What are my rights? Can I accrue holiday leave?
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What happens to my job if I take maternity leave? Does parental leave affect my holiday entitlement? Many employees are concerned about these questions when expecting a child. Paid maternity leave in the USA remains a controversial topic for many, but knowing what you could be entitled to means you may avoid stress once the new member of the family arrives.

Paid maternity and parental leave: What are my rights? Can I accrue holiday leave?
Maximum working hours for employees
Maximum working hours for employees
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The FLSA has come up with some guidelines to make sure that employees are compensated for their extra working hours. As well as federal laws, certain states have their own rules which must be adhered to. Employers who do not follow these rules can be taken to court and may face jail time.

Maximum working hours for employees
Online time tracker: Functions & uses for online timekeeping
Online time trackers: Functions and uses
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Online time trackers make it easier for you to track your employee’s working hours. Furthermore, many applications offer comprehensive functions that go well beyond mere timekeeping. This way, you simplify your personnel planning and resource planning. It’s not only large corporations that benefit from this. It makes organization easier for small and medium-sized businesses as well.

Online time trackers: Functions and uses
Product life cycle
The four stages of the product life cycle
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After introducing a product on the market, many companies tend to wonder how its sales will evolve in the future. Every product goes through the same stages. Once you understand the product life cycle stages, you can better plan out your company’s operations. This model affects a wide range of business sectors. Ideally, you should be thinking about the product life cycle for marketing as well.

The four stages of the product life cycle
Starting an association
Starting an association: How to do it
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An association is the best way to join forces with like-minded people and pursue a common goal - provided you are not primarily interested in making a financial profit. In order to guarantee that your association functions in the long run, you’ll have to take a lot into account. How do you actually start an association? And what are the requirements for starting an association?

Starting an association: How to do it
Getting Things Done (GTD)
Getting Things Done: a productivity system for all areas of life
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Getting Things Done (GTD) is a productivity and time management system that was developed in 2001 by David Allen and now has a large community of followers. What’s so special about the GTD method? You can apply it to all areas of life to prevent important to-dos from falling through the cracks. That being said, this time management method isn’t right for everyone.

Getting Things Done: a productivity system for all areas of life
Elevator pitch
Elevator pitch: How to convince in just a few minutes
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Nowadays, an elevator pitch rarely takes place in an actual elevator. But the fact remains that we often face situations in everyday life where we need to present ourselves in a brief and compelling way. Could you pique the interest of a potential employer or investor in under two minutes? Here's a guide on how to give a perfect elevator pitch.

Elevator pitch: How to convince in just a few minutes
Supply and demand
Supply and demand – how they control the market
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Supply and demand determine pricing in a free market. Demand has an influence on supply and vice versa. With no demand, any supply is redundant, and with no supply, demand is ineffective. When they are in equilibrium, prices remain stable and goods are affordable. But how exactly does the law of supply and demand work?

Supply and demand – how they control the market
What is EBITDA?
EBITDA: How to calculate this key figure
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To correctly evaluate a company, and to be able to compare it with others, you require appropriate key figures. However, the profit at the end of the year is not the right choice for all situations. Business economists often use other comparison values. The EBITDA value emerges again and again in this context. But: what is EBITDA?

EBITDA: How to calculate this key figure
EBITDA margin
EBITDA margin: This is how easy it is to calculate the value
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You rely on meaningful figures for running your company. The EBITDA margin gives you a powerful tool for measuring the profitability of your company in its day-to-day business operations so you can make corrections if required. You can ignore items which are not significant for the result of your company operations. We explain how to calculate the EBITDA margin.

EBITDA margin: This is how easy it is to calculate the value