Observations

In November, the DOL released a few opinion letters answering questions related to employee continuing education (reviewed in “Is Training Time Paid? DOL Reiterates Standard Position”) and ongoing questions involving employee travel times. Travel time [READ MORE]

As the last days of the 2020 Des Moines real estate market come to pass, there are many national reports forecasting what will happen in 2021. If 2020 taught us anything, it is that predictions [READ MORE]

As we start a new year, it’s fair to say that we’ve all learned something about the social, political, physical and environmental forces that have affected everyone. And, in some ways, our lives will be [READ MORE]

I was talking with a business owner recently and he told me this: “I’d LIKE to send social media updates more often, but my business partner thinks it’s a big mistake. He says we’ll alienate [READ MORE]

The line of thinking is: “I’ll put up another picture of a half-done deck so people can see that we are doing “something.” And I put “something” in quotes there because in the minds of [READ MORE]