Employing is time consuming process

Small business entrepreneurs life is a hectic mess of professionalism and marketing that professionalism of yours, administration of for example company´s finances and developing for example the functions of the company´s products or services. Many of the self employed small company owners think that hiring an extra worker or an assistant would save money and time, but in many cases it means even more work, at least in the beginning of the employment since the introduction and the paper work hiring someone will cause.


When thinking of hiring someone the costs will play a big role as well, and the taxes. The benefit of the employing someone in regards the money it costs depends of course on the income and on the profit the company is making, and of course on how much time it will actually save and how much added value it has to the entrepreneurs own work. For the employer it is not simply the costs of the salary of the employee, but there are added costs from taxes and social security payments, health insurance and so on. In the salary of the employee you can add at least 40 percent of the costs to get the right expense.


Also the new payments in the accounting and the introduction of the employee to her work will take some time from the actual professional work. These can be however solved through proper recruiting and automatizing the whole salary payment. Many accounting companies offer these day electronically handled salary payments and electronic finance administration (in Finnish = sähköinen taloushallinto), in which the software counts and deals with money transactions. This can save actually some time and money as well. Employing can be useful if you are overloaded by work and profession which pays well.

Eco tips for office work

There is about 1,7 million office workers and millions of quarter meters office space in Finland. People spend most of their time in these spaces and in this sense office buildings are a big consuming units in regards for example energy and waste. Finding ways of making the office life more ecological can truly make a difference not only in being more environmental friendly but as what comes to money as well. Usually being ecological means saving in materials and energy and this way it can save a lot of money as well.


Probably the earliest ecological movement concerning office work was the idea of paperless office. This is realized in many practices of the office work – for example billing and payments can be done electronically, and the whole accounting (in Finnish = kirjapito)can be done on the computer screen instead of printing receipts and sending out paper sheet. Computers and internet have made it more easier to save paper and this way reduce the cutting down of the forests, but there has emerged an other end to this as well – computers use a lot of energy.


Office buildings are one of the biggest energy consumers around in working life in the urban environment when excluding big industry plants. Energy efficient constructions are a novelty of 2010´s and lot of office buildings are built in 70´s and 80´s. In those times there wasn´t lot of attention payed on the energy and especially for example the leakages of heating. However the new construction specifications which are composed in European Union and which will be valid in future in Finland as well will take these things into account. In old office building for example changing the windows will effect on energy consuming. The electricity bill can be reduced as well by simply remembering to shut off printers, computer screens and lights in the end of the day.