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April 29, 2024
John Waldmann, the CEO and co-founder of the small business team management app Homebase, discusses findings from his company's small business fulfillment survey.
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The secrets to building an unstoppable team. Many of the 2024 Top Local Workplace selections highlight similarities among successful teams.
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After nabbing over 100,000 small businesses as customers, covering over 2 million employees, Homebase raised financing from L Catterton Growth and Emerson Collective.
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75% of small business employees are paid bi-weekly, but more than half of workers would opt for more frequent, weekly payments if given the choice. Homebase CEO John Waldmann on how traditional payroll can change.
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Wage rates up 17% over 2 years. Homebase CEO John Waldmann and Alfonso Wright at Brooklyn Tea discuss rising prices and rising wages.
Read articleAugust 31, 2023
Best for managing hourly workers: Homebase.
Read articleAugust 29, 2023
The Wall Street Journal reports that 16% of the 517 small businesses surveyed by employee-management software company Homebase now solicit gratuities at checkout, up from 6.2% in 2019.
Read articleAugust 4, 2023
Hiring in bars and restaurants was pretty subdued last month. And Homebase, which makes scheduling software that a lot of restaurants use, says it did see a sharper drop in traffic in places like Birmingham and San Antonio and Phoenix where it's been really hot in recent weeks.
Read articleMarch 3, 2023
Homebase CEO John Waldmann on why small businesses have the upper hand when it comes to retaining talent.
Read articleDecember 31, 2021
The pandemic called on business leaders to rewrite their playbooks. Learn how CEOs — including Homebase CEO John Waldmann — have come to embrace uncertainty.
Read articleDecember 23, 2021
An analysis from Homebase found that hours worked in tourism-heavy counties across the U.S. has fallen nearly 25% as a result of Omicron. But so far, the pace of job postings and hiring hasn't been affected by the new COVID-19 variant, says Homebase Head Economist Jason Greenberg.
Read articleNovember 4, 2021
On Bloomberg Markets: What’d You Miss, Homebase CEO John Waldmann discusses the effects of the labor shortage on small businesses, as well as practical solutions for creating a better work experience to attract and retain employees.
Watch videoDecember 21, 2022
In retail, the number of hours worked, as well as the number of employees, is down about 12% from pre-pandemic levels, according to Homebase data. And the number of establishments open is down by a quarter.
Read articleJuly 29, 2021
The company now has some 100,000 small businesses, with 1 million employees in total, on its platform.
Read articleApril 2, 2021
Data from Homebase shows employees working and hours worked both gained sharply over the past month.
Read articleMarch 31, 2021
One previously untapped source of high-frequency data that’s gone into widespread use during the pandemic is data from a company called Homebase.
Read articleDecember 22, 2020
Our top-rated time clock software, Homebase streamlines shift scheduling and keeps employees updated.
Read articleDecember 3, 2020
Homebase won a 2020 Inc. Magazine Best In Business Gold Medal award for our support of small businesses and workers during the pandemic.
Read articleOctober 1, 2020
This dashboard of 17 charts shows how the economy continues to change as we grapple with life during the pandemic.
View dashboardAugust 23, 2020
In March, as the coronavirus pandemic hit and led to sweeping shelter-in-place orders across the US, Homebase made a discovery.
Read articleJuly 23, 2020
Economists have analyzed the effects of boosts to unemployment benefits.
Read articleJune 19, 2020
Wall Street wants to see evidence of a pickup in economic activity to better gauge the pace of the recovery.
Watch videoJune 13, 2020
After bottoming out in April, economic activity has continued to rise into early June.
Read articleMay 14, 2020
Traffic to U.S. retail stores ticked up last week and hours worked at a sample of small businesses increased as the country’s patchwork reopening continued.
Read articleMarch 20, 2020
No one alive has experienced an economic plunge this sudden.
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October 1, 2020
Track the economic impacts of COVID-19 on people, businesses, and communities across the United States in real time.
View dashboardJune 22, 2020
A new study by Yale economists details the drastic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. small businesses and the hourly workers they employ.
Read articleJuly 27, 2020
The Penn Wharton Budget Model COVID-19 Tracker provides daily, real-time estimates of economic activity and of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic at the state level.
View dashboardSeptember 2, 2020
Analysis of the labor market impacts of COVID-19 on small- and medium-sized businesses using Homebase time-card records.
Read articleApril 8, 2020
Four Facts from Homebase Data
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May 5, 2021
Small businesses were particularly affected by the pandemic. The Fed examines the state of these firms using microdata from Homebase.
Read articleJune 12, 2020
Recent Economic and Financial Developments of the Monetary Policy Report submitted to the Congress on June 12, 2020, pursuant to section 2B of the Federal Reserve Act.
Read reportAugust 19, 2020
St Louis Fed president discusses his concerns as well as the unexpected success in using Homebase data to predict highly volatile US job numbers.
Watch interviewDecember 1, 2020
Analysis of employment recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read articleJune 9, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has shaken labor markets, leading to unprecedented job losses in March and April.
Read articleMay 26, 2020
Does the expiration of state stay-at-home orders — issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — facilitate economic recovery in a substantial way?
Read articleMay 21, 2020
Forecasts of output and employment are crucial for assessing appropriate monetary, fiscal and health policy responses.
Read articleMay 1, 2020
Google Searches, Unemployment Insurance, and Public Health Orders
Read articleMay 1, 2020
Public health measures implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19 have caused a sharp contraction in economic activity. Today, we’re in the initial stages of a recession.
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Homebase makes work easier for 100,000+ small (but mighty) businesses with everything they need to manage an hourly team: employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll, team communication, hiring, onboarding, and compliance. Just don’t call us “Human Capital Management.” We’re tools built for the busiest businesses, so owners and employees can spend less time on bullsh*t and more time on what matters.
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