MCDA Business Brief

A growing number of states now require employers to include a salary or wage range somewhere in the hiring process, and in many cases, directly in the job posting itself. If your business hasn't reviewed its job ad process against these requirements recently, this is worth a closer look, especially if you hire remotely or across state lines. Why this has become harder to ignore A few years ago, pay transparency requirements were concentrated in a handful of states. That's no

What a Business Continuity Plan Actually Needs to Cover Most business owners have thought about business continuity planning at some point, usually after hearing about it from an insurance agent, a client contract requirement, or a story about a company that didn't recover from a disruption. The instinct that follows is often the same: write a document, save it somewhere, and consider the topic handled. That instinct treats continuity planning as a compliance task. In practic

A social media caption. A website headline. An email. An advertisement. A customer response. They may seem like very different things, but they have something in common: They're all communicating something about your business. And that's where communications becomes more important than many businesses realize. A communications professional isn't simply thinking, “Does this sound good?” They're thinking about what the business is trying to say, who will receive the message, ho