by Doug Patten | 2025-11-22 | HR, SMBs
The shift to distributed work has transformed how small businesses and nonprofits operate, bringing undeniable advantages in talent access, operational flexibility, and cost efficiency. Teams now collaborate seamlessly across state lines, working remotely or in hybrid...
by Doug Patten | 2025-11-16 | HR, overview, SMBs
For small businesses and nonprofits alike, operational efficiency represents far more than an abstract productivity metric, it’s the fundamental difference between sustainable growth and slow organizational decline. Lean budgets, minimal staffing, and constantly...
by Doug Patten | 2025-11-08 | Enterprise Solutions, HR, SMBs
If you’re running a small or mid-sized business, you’ve almost certainly experienced this thought process: “We just need a tool that can help us with this one specific thing right now.” The instinct is completely understandable and reflects how...
by Doug Patten | 2025-11-02 | Compliance, HR, overview, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition, Training
For years, artificial intelligence has promised to revolutionize workplace productivity, but for most small and mid-sized businesses, that revolution felt perpetually out of reach. Enterprise-grade AI tools carried enterprise-grade price tags. System integrations...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-26 | Compliance, Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
Every HR leader knows the frustration of a broken promise in technology. Applicant Tracking Systems were supposed to revolutionize recruitment and save time, improve candidate quality, and making hiring decisions smarter and more objective. Instead, for many...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-19 | Compliance, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
For most small and mid-sized businesses, recruiting represents a perpetual tension between urgency and capacity. A single open role can consume an entire HR team’s week – manually reviewing résumés, coordinating interview schedules, generating compliant...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-12 | HR, products, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
It’s late Friday afternoon, and your HR manager is still wading through hundreds of résumés while juggling onboarding tasks, policy questions, and compliance deadlines. For many small and mid-sized businesses, that scene represents an all-too-familiar drain on...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-07 | Compliance, HR, overview, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
AI in the workplace has evolved from a futuristic concept to an everyday operational reality. But for small and medium-sized business leaders evaluating whether to adopt AI assistants, two fundamental questions still dominate the conversation: Can AI be trusted to...
by Doug Patten | 2025-09-27 | Compliance, Generative AI, HR, products, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
The companies pulling ahead in today’s competitive landscape aren’t the ones hoarding the most applications or chasing every new technology trend. They’re the organizations that have learned to cut through the noise, standardize around a few powerful...
by Doug Patten | 2025-09-21 | Compliance, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
The announcement hit mid-sized tech companies like a seismic shift: a one-time $100,000 fee per new H-1B petition. For businesses that have relied on international talent to fuel growth and innovation, this represents far more than a simple fee increase –...
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