What Could You Do With 15 Extra Hours a Week?

Alan Pentz says most business owners are missing out on the most significant productivity opportunity in 50 years.

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Here are today’s highlights:

• The tax deduction for overtime wages is creating complications for businesses and employees.

• At big corporations (and some small businesses), the layoffs driven by artificial intelligence have begun.

• Can President Trump’s tariffs survive next week’s Supreme Court hearing?

• Businesses have found value in letting employees post spontaneously to their own social media accounts. Of course, there are risks.

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Alan Pentz asks what you could do with 15 extra hours per week: “Last month I sat with five business owners. Revenue ranged from $1.2 million to $4.8 million annually. I asked each one the same question: ‘What AI tools are you using in your business?’ Four said ‘ChatGPT, sometimes.’ One said ‘We’re thinking about it.’ Then I asked: ‘What could you do with 15 extra hours per week?’ Every single owner had an immediate answer. Sell more. Strategic planning. Better client relationships. Finally fixing that broken process. Time with family.”

• “Here’s what I’ve learned working with dozens of business owners: We’re living through the most significant productivity opportunity in 50 years, and most businesses are treating it like optional homework.”

• “The math is clear: A $3 million business owner spending 20 hours weekly on repetitive tasks (financial reporting, client communications, process documentation, data analysis) is burning roughly $80,000 annually in opportunity cost.”

• “Now multiply that by every employee and we are talking hundreds of thousands of lost dollars. AI can handle 60-70 percent of that workload today. Not someday. Today.” READ MORE

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