This entry was posted
on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 at 7:55 am and is filed under Comments, News, Personal Business, Small Business / SOHO.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
 |
|
External Links
|
My Recent Tweets
Other Great Business Blogs
- Why Online Accounting Is A Must For Small Businesses
- Plan Your Way To Success
- Plan Your Way To Success
- Starting A Rural Business
- Tell The World About Your New Product
- Avoid Start-Up Failure
- Can Women Really Have It All?
- Do You Have What It Takes To Be Your Own Boss?
- Expanding Into International Markets
- Expanding Into International Markets
No Pension plans for SMB Employees and Ownersby Stefan Töpfer on Aug 02, 2007A recent survey of the pension plans offered by small businesses, Unicom found that only one in three businesses offers its employees a pension arrangement. Of the respondents 38% made no arrangements for pension for themselves or for their employees, while 45% had pension plans only for themselves. A dismal 15% reported that they had pension plans both for themselves and for their employees. In a country where a large percentage of workers, close to 40% work in small businesses, this is an alarming fact. The survey also said that only 17% of small business employees could depend on a company pension plan, while the rest depended on the basic government pension or private schemes. This is however not a new trend and in fact a 2003 Small Employer Retirement Survey reported that a majority of SMBs have no pension plans to offer their employees and the main reasons for this were low income or turnover, costs involved, short term employees, and administrative hassles. However if small business, like home-, micro-, lifestyle-, mobile-, SME-, SMB-, SOHO-businesses, are to grow well and ensure that their employees also do so they will need to start focusing on helping them gain a secure financial future. 
No Comments » | Trackback
| Share This
Leave a ReplyI would love to hear from you, please let me know what your take on my blog post is. In order to stop spam on my blog and increase conversations, I had to implement some simple rules: 1. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or service's name. We are sorry but any violation of the above rules will mean an automatic removal of your comment. |
Sponsors
Categories
- avoid growing pain
- be eco-friendly
- be successful
- bootstrap
- choose your office
- deal with taxes
- do a reality check
- do a SWOT plan
- do bookkeeping.
- do cost cutting
- do credit control
- do customer service
- export
- find funding
- grow your business
- handle problems
- keep data safe
- lower overheads
- manage your time
- market and sell
- motivate your staff
- not to do it!
- outsource effectively
- plan cash-flow
- plan your business
- recruit the right people
- sell your business
- start-up in business
- use online IT
- Accountants/CPAs
- Accounting
- Boomer Business
- Contractor
- Development
- Disaster Plan
- DIY Business
- Employment
- Entrepreneur
- Exporting
- Failure
- Finance
- Franchise
- Freelancer
- Generation-Y
- Globelization 3.0
- Green/Eco-Friendly
- Health Check
- Home Business
- Infrastructure
- Key Account Management
- Lifestyle
- Marketing/PR
- MumEntrepreneur
- News
- Outsourcing
- Personal Business
- Red-Tape
- Relationships
- Sales
- Self-employed
- Social Entrepreneur
- SOHO/SMB/SME/Micro
- Sole-Trader
- Start-Up
- Suppliers
- Virtual Assistants
- Work/Life Balance
