When times are tough, small business owners face more pressure to pick up the slack and find ways to do more with less. According to a recent survey conducted by online payroll provider SurePayroll, business owners are multi-tasking to address the challenges of the current economy, keep customers happy and keep their businesses running smoothly.
The survey found that 88 percent of small business owners think multi-tasking is now a key component in running a successful business that business owners should embrace.
“Being a business owner, you usually don’t get the option of doing one thing,” says survey respondent Lydia Rivera, Agent and Owner of Allstate Insurance Company in Georgia. “You wear many hats. Whether it’s checking email, correcting someone’s hours, paying bills, answering the phone, running a quote and writing business … I have to do it all with patience and give each task my full attention and accuracy. Somehow I pull it off and it’s become what I am used to doing.”
Indeed, 56 percent of respondents indicated that they often handle three or more tasks simultaneously. SurePayroll attributes the increasing tendency to multi-task to current economic conditions that force businesses to produce the same output levels with fewer resources.
“Business owners we talk with are doing everything they can to weather the storm, and that includes working on more and more projects simultaneously to ensure their businesses stay in top form,” says SurePayroll President Michael Alter. “With job cuts at record highs, like it or not, multi-tasking is essential these days, and business owners must be proficient multi-taskers.”
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on August 4 2009
Small Business is having a tough go at staying alive. The Obama administration is doing as much as possible to increase the Small Business failure rate. Small Business has traditionally had a plan of action that was carried out by the owners and employees of Small Business. The plan always gets modified by change in the economy. As Small Business changes to meet the situation a new plan is put into place to make up for the loss in revenue. Now look at today’s problems, Small Business Loans are no where to be found, which means that cash flow has been hampered in a big way. So now in the Small Business community reaction has pushed the plan of attack to the back burner and we see businesses reacting to news that should not effect them but now it does because the consumer is using the main stream media as their guide through this economic mess . We need to unite Small Business. How can we do it? Will you help? Lets get the ball rolling and start thinking about 2010 and elect some fiscally conservative people to congress and in2012. lets remove the leftists from the White House.
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