Employees Questions

Out of a 40-hour work week, how many hours of actual productive work is reasonable for me to expect from a salaried web developer? (low-high range?) In our case, productive work means billable work...

Employees Salary Budget

asked Aug 16 '13 at 01:45

Contrazoom
186 points

Before i ask this question i want to preface it by saying that it is not meant with any racial judgement and i would like answers that are pure and coming from an honest and non-bigoty place. With...

India Outsourcing Employees

asked Aug 21 '13 at 02:55

Amin Brodie
39 points

I currently work within a call centre as a manager and I have a lot of admin work to complete. During my own time, at home, on my own PC I started developing a system/tool via Excel that would...

Competition Employees Side Projects Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Aug 21 '13 at 21:50

Jim Cullinane
41 points

Hi fellow startupians, I've recently gone into a venture with a friend. He is a business/marketing student, and I am a Comp Sci/Math/Econ/A million other things student. Before we moved down to...

Development Legal Employees Ethics

asked Jul 30 '13 at 07:24

Jdero
128 points

I am currently working a lot with a freelancer from the US. I am based in Germany. Now we are currently finishing our first project and I need to pay him. I would like to avoid cost of paypal if...

Employees Payroll

asked Aug 2 '13 at 23:22

Christian
3,590 points

I am working as a single worker in my small office. For the last year I have had more work than I can manage and I am thinking about employing someone to help me. Now, is there a way that I can...

Employees Cost Estimation

asked Jul 12 '13 at 01:25

Ben Mcss
143 points

I know the I-9 document states that the form must be completed in 3 business days of the employee's first day of work. If the employee says they'll provide documentation, but after three days have...

Employees USA Legal Documents

asked Jul 12 '13 at 03:46

Captain Crypto
16 points

My business partner and I are looking for a second opinion on this. The story goes that we're looking for employees, so we offered someone a finder's fee to get a developer for us. She found...

Employees Fees

asked Jul 20 '13 at 11:10

Boztalay
106 points

I received offer from company that just raised Series A round. I'm trying to determine a method of finding out how much my stock options are worth. They gave me multiple offers with varying...

Venture Capital Employees Tax Stock Options

asked Jul 2 '13 at 16:34

Harmon
6 points

In the UK, is it possible to be in full time employment and be a sole trader at the same time? i.e. Work a full time job as an employee. Do contract work as a sole trader on evenings and...

Employees Company Contractor

asked May 20 '13 at 21:29

Flem
108 points

I've recently started a photography business, not because I can take pictures with my phone and instagram, a legitimate business. How will the tax man feel about me employing and paying my small...

Employees

asked Apr 26 '13 at 03:26

Dave Swan
6 points

I have a person on staff who has been doing a lot of admin type work: support, billing, etc. I am thinking that I will want another programmer (PHP/MYSQL/etc) in the next 6-12 months for some new...

Software Management Employees

asked Apr 9 '13 at 01:27

Simon
165 points

I'm Canadian and living in Canada and I have a professional friend who is American and living in the States. He and I want to start a call center. The operation will be centered around him for...

Incorporation Outsourcing Legal Employees

asked Mar 25 '13 at 04:43

User25605
11 points

I'm a computer science student at Bristol University in the UK, and I'm looking to work for a startup when I graduate, as I have always had a strong interest in business and feel working for a...

Software Technology Employees

asked Mar 17 '13 at 04:17

Ryan
4 points

If the parent company wholly owns the subsidiary, could the employees of the subsidiary work on products of the parent company? Are special contracts needed? Thanks

Contract Employees Company Subsidiary

asked Jan 28 '13 at 14:56

Kate
99 points

My company started hiring office assistants a couple years ago. The rationale is pretty straightforward: since good engineers are hard to find, free our engineers of non-engineering tasks so they...

Part Time Employees

asked Jan 11 '13 at 05:34

User1662
173 points

We are a young startup, founded by 3 members about a year and a half ago, and recently closed a seed-stage investment round. We are about to hire our first 3 employees, 2 tech, 1...

Hiring Employees Human Resources Stock Options

asked Dec 18 '12 at 17:25

Founder
11 points

My name is Amir Khan but instead of Amir I want use Am Khan on my email accounts, online presence, and that's what I want people to call me by and on everything legal I will of course use my full...

Employees Business Identity

asked Dec 19 '12 at 10:55

Ariel
138 points

I want to hire a few developers and support executive for my website. Being an start up, I want to hire them to work remotely to save office expenses but I don't know anything about hiring full...

Recruiting Hiring Employees Remote

asked Dec 3 '12 at 20:32

Sourabh
288 points

I am a software engineer who "invented", and developed alone an integrated ERP software solution over the past 2 years. I got the idea and coded much of the software as intern at small wholesale...

Software Contract Employees Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Oct 20 '12 at 06:31

P T
11 points