Elm Tree Legal Blog

Some business realms across Connecticut and nationally operate with a comparative lack of regulatory restrictions. That is, their owners and managers conduct their enterprises without having to routinely deal with a complex overlay of rules and regulations.

Others don’t reside in that camp, with government officials taking anything but a laissez faire approach to their existence and operations.

When you start a new business, you have many questions and more than a few sleepless nights, but you focus on making a success of your new venture.

You resolve not to fail, so here are five areas of concern that you should avoid as a new business owner.

Here’s a short answer to today’s above-posed blog headline query: Good for both.

Candidly, a quality company handbook – meaning one that is comprehensive, tailored and deemed reasonably responsive by both management and workers – is a foundational document and strong determinant of company morale and success.

We referenced the bottom-line complexity of business in Connecticut and nationally in a recent Berdon, Young and Margolis blog post. We noted in our firm’s November 11 entry that most discussions on commercial challenges and opportunities must ultimately acknowledge that “the business realm is just a complicated arena.”

The successive dips and upswings evidenced by Connecticut-tied commercial data amply bear that out. In fact, an informed conclusion concerning the state’s business health might reasonably gravitate toward either the positive or negative following consideration of the same information.