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Yahoo

September 9, 2025

Homebase Earns Spot on Fast Company’s 2025 Best Workplaces for Innovators North America

Fast Company announced its Best Workplaces for Innovators North America 2025. Homebase earned a spot for its forward-thinking use of AI, developing tools that drive innovation and external solutions that help small businesses.

Entrepreneur

April 29, 2024

Here's What 86% of Hourly Workers Say Would Actually Make Them Happier at Their Jobs.

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.

Eater

April 15, 2024

How These Restaurants Claimed The Title of “Top Local Workplaces”

The secrets to building an unstoppable team. Many of the 2024 Top Local Workplace selections highlight similarities among successful teams.

Tech Crunch

April 3, 2024

Team management app Homebase welcomes $60M Series D to give SMBs ‘superpowers’

After nabbing over 100,000 small businesses as customers, covering over 2 million employees, Homebase raised financing from L Catterton Growth and Emerson Collective.

Bloomberg

January 28, 2024

Fed’s Inflation Battle Hinges on Convincing Americans Price Hikes Are Done

Wage rates up 17% over 2 years. Homebase CEO John Waldmann and Alfonso Wright at Brooklyn Tea discuss rising prices and rising wages.

Forbes

January 12, 2024

Three Ways Small Businesses' Payroll Could Change In 2024

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.

USA Today

August 31, 2023

Best payroll software of 2023

Best for managing hourly workers: Homebase.

The Washington Post

August 29, 2023

New Tipping Trend Hurts Those Who Need Gratuities Most

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.

NPR

August 4, 2023

There are signs that hot weather may have put a damper on certain kinds of jobs

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

The Economist

July 23, 2020

Generous unemployment benefits are not keeping Americans from work

Economists have analyzed the effects of boosts to unemployment benefits.

CNBC

June 19, 2020

Businesses remain cautious despite promising new economic data

Wall Street wants to see evidence of a pickup in economic activity to better gauge the pace of the recovery.

The Wall Street Journal

June 13, 2020

Signs of a V-Shaped Early-Stage Economic Recovery Emerge

After bottoming out in April, economic activity has continued to rise into early June.

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