employee retention

Employee Benefits — What about time off for “Volunteering”?

By Funeral Director Daily / December 5, 2024 /

    While it can be tough being an employee of a family-owned funeral home, sometimes employees don’t understand it can be tough being the owner or boss as well.  I’ve been on both sides — being an employee in my college days and then coming home and being the boss. . . . I’ve…

The labor market and your funeral home

By Funeral Director Daily / October 26, 2021 /

Over the weekend I read some articles pertaining to the secular world of business that I have tried to boil down to how they will affect the death care profession/industry.  One article from Yahoo Money is entitled “Making sense of the Twisted Sister labor market“.  You can read it here. That article points to what…

The cost of a funeral, financial literacy. . . and more

By Funeral Director Daily / October 2, 2019 /

I read and then viewed this news story from KPLC-TV of Lake Charles, Louisiana and thought to myself, “Wow they did a pretty fair job of telling of the plight of paying for a funeral when no planning has been done.”  You see, a lot of people like to blame the unexpected expenses of a…