The 3 Most Asked Questions of the Person Who Handles Payroll
If you hold the payroll responsibility in your company, you undoubtedly know the drill. Somehow every other employee of the company has found your phone number, and/or knows the way to your office.Why?...
View ArticleImproving Morale with Performance Management
According to 33% of respondents on a recent HR Support Center poll, the number one employer nightmare issue is “poor performers.” The concept of performance management is simply a method to enhance...
View ArticleConsidering docking an employee’s pay for cause? Careful...
If you’re a business owner, CEO or CFO, you probably think that you have the right to deduct from any employee’s paycheck who happens to owe the company money, for whatever reason. But in light of...
View ArticleChoosing an online payroll service? ... better roll up your sleeves
So you’ve been comparing internet payroll solutions lately, and are leaning toward an online payroll service provider. That’s good; because (as we blogged about just recently) there’s virtually...
View ArticleHow to tell when it’s time to change to a new online payroll service
OK, so you did your homework and chose not to go with a traditional, batch-oriented payroll service. And you resisted the siren song of your IT group, realizing that it’s just not likely that they...
View ArticleThe top four reasons to hate your payroll service
Many of our new customers these days are escapees from (ahem) another network ...er, payroll service. Of course, we always ask them to tell us about the issues that are motivating them to change up...
View ArticleFederal Unemployment Tax Rate Reduction
Effective for all payroll dollars paid after June 30, 2011, the federal unemployment tax (FUTA) rate that employers pay on the first $7,000 of employee wages has been reduced by 0.20%. This will...
View ArticleHandling the Expanding Issue of Obesity Discrimination
Published last October in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a Duke University study estimated the cost of obesity among U.S. full-time employees to be $73.1 billion. According to...
View ArticleSocial Media as a Recruiting Tool
Large corporations have long utilized e-recruiting strategies and tools to seek and secure top talent. As technology has evolved towards more cost-effective rates, more and more small to mid-sized...
View ArticleEver Heard of Employment Branding?
Employment branding is the process of positioning an organization as an employer’s choice in the labor market. Employment branding is essential to analyze because employers can understand what...
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