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A nationwide survey commissioned by Crucial.com indicates Americans lose four days each year waiting for their computers to behave, cutting into precious time survey respondents say they’d rather spend exercising, sleeping or planning healthy meals. I always knew the machines ...

Imagine for a moment today is Jan. 1, 2019, and your business is thriving. So much so that you need to fill 60 key positions in the coming year, all of which require technical skills and/or education beyond high school. ...

As an Idaho recreation business owner, I must say that this silly ideological chatter about the state of Idaho taking over the management or ownership of our federal lands is frustrating. Our state legislators are wasting our taxpayer money evaluating ...

Has a physician ever made a mistake that harmed you or a loved one? Did the physician apologize? Whether to offer a simple “I’m sorry,” when things didn’t go as planned, has long been the subject of debate among health ...

Many Idaho business owners know that federal privacy rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act , HIPAA, apply to health information maintained by certain “covered entities”, i.e., healthcare providers and health plans. But fewer know that effective September ...

While most of the attention on the Obama administration’s health care law has been on health insurance exchanges and Medicaid expansion, employer-sponsored health plans are also beginning to slowly feel the effects. One change that will affect employer-sponsored plans beginning ...

It’s a stunt you couldn’t pull off anywhere else. On Dec. 31, the Idaho New Year’s Eve Commission will drop a giant, glowing potato in celebration of the new year. I’m a fan of potatoes in all shapes and sizes, ...

This past August marked the second anniversary of the implementation of the Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower program. At the time of its inception, the whistleblower program attracted attention from the business and legal communities, promising to entice potential whistleblowers ...

Small businesses, typically defined as those with fewer than 500 employees, represent 96.9 percent of all employers in Idaho and employ 57.4 percent of the private-sector workforce. These businesses are a large part of the state’s economy, and as such ...

The biggest single time management and productivity killer is distractions. Interruptions, email, multitasking and a dozen other different distractions cause significant loss of productivity, which translates to lost money. And, the bigger problem is not the distraction itself, which could ...