Four time Olympic Gold medalist, Simone Biles pulled out of the Olympics for medical reasons. It was later disclosed that she had been suffering mental distress and what she said was “the twisties“. She describes this as a disassociation with her body where gymnasts to lose their sense of space and dimension in the […]
The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 to 1919 was horrible. It was first identified inside the military in Kansas in spring 1918 (It was during WWI). About 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. Deaths were at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the U.S. […]
I was on a small business webinar last week with Brian Moran of Small Business Edge and he was talking about the next pandemic. He wasn’t discussing the next wave of COVID-19. Brian was telling us that the next pandemic coming was an employee mental health crisis.
This hit me hard given everything that employees […]
I surveyed small business owners a few weeks ago to see how many of them would require a COVID Vaccine before coming back to the office (exceptions for religious beliefs or medical conditions). I also wondered if they would keep unvaccinated employees working from home. Here are the results:
47% Yes
40% No
13% Unsure
As you might expect, […]
With the year-end stimulus bill that was recently passed, a change was made to allow companies that claimed PPP loans to now also claim the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) with wages that were not utilized as qualified expenses in the forgiveness of the PPP loan.
For 2020 & 2021, the combined credit could be up to […]
