Organizing For Work At Home Staffing
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A number of arts organizations are embracing employees’ desire to work from home on either a full or hybrid basis. Making the switch to this sort of work environment, even for some employees, can impact the organizational culture and requires a change in expectations among co-workers. Arts Midwest recently provided some tips for Asynchronous Work and Project Management on their website which can help create the structure and expectations for these types of work arrangements. …
Key Administrative Tasks for January
Happy New Year! With the busy holiday concert period closed, it’s time to take care of some important start-of-year administrative tasks. Here are four such tasks to consider tackling within the first couple of weeks of the new year. Issue Form 1099 to Vendors If you paid any of your performers, consultants, or other non-employees at least $600 during the last calendar year, you will need to issue a Form 1099 by January 31 of …
Still Worth a Look for Arts Organizations: Small Business Travel Rewards Programs
In December 2022, ArtsHacker published a guide to three small business travel rewards programs. Two of these three programs (the two airline programs) have had significant changes to the point where the programs we wrote about in 2022 no longer exist, and the two airlines have entirely new programs in their place. Here we provide information about the current programs, and revisit one useful hotel program. If you ever have employees or artists traveling to …
Dangers Of Using AI For Annual Reviews
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Annual reviews are an important component of the work environment. This is especially true in the environment of arts organizations where people wear so many hats it is difficult to feel you are performing any role effectively. Because it is also true that supervisors are juggling the responsibilities of many roles and don’t feel they have a lot of time they can devote to providing quality evaluations, it is understandable that people will look for …
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