8 steps to negotiating your employee's salary

So you believe you have found the perfect candidate for the job. You're sure this person can deliver transformative results in a short amount of time. She is definitely a performer. You've decided to extend her an offer.

You crosscheck salaries on Salary.com and PayScale to make sure you deliver a package that's competitive and ready for her signature. Heck, you even feel the salary is a bit out of your comfort range, because you really want to hire this person. As far as you're concerned, the company just extended her a great offer that she couldn't possibly refuse.

And then she refuses it.

She even has the audacity to counter your offer, requesting $10,000 more in base salary. What do you do?

Tolerance Stack up and Recruitment

Let us say 100 precision engineered components when assembled together will make a fully functional car. On each of the 100 components, a maximum error margin of 0.5% (half a percent) is permitted. Let us also say that we have used the maximum allowed leeway for error on each of the 100 parts. How faulty will the finally assembled car be, when made out of these 100 parts, each of them having an error of 0.5%?

How to boost productivity as a remote employee

Telecommuting continues to climb in popularity among workers and employers, hitting 37% in 2015 according to a recent Gallup poll. Interestingly, that study also states that remote employees were just as productive as in-house teams.

While it may appear that way from the corporate perspective, any remote employee will tell you that they face some unique challenges when the watchful eye of leadership disappears.

“Losing that structure provided by a regular office job can be detrimental to success, “ warns Andrew Rosen, founder and editor of the career advice blog Jobacle.com in a conversation with Glassdoor.