Payroll
One Size Does Not Fit All: How to Know if Your Payroll Partner Can Grow With You
If you have kids, you’ve probably figured out that as your family grows, so grows your vehicles. Maybe you’ve been driving something sleek and sporty but then you learn there are twins on the way and suddenly that minivan you said you’d never buy may be in your driveway sooner than you think. And then…
Read MoreHow M&As Affect Payroll and What You Need to Do About It
Peanut butter and jelly. Mornings and coffee. Summer and air conditioning. Some things are better together. Your business has decided to try a merger and everything is coming together like peas and carrots. The only problem? No one knows who is a pea and who is a carrot and everyone is confused about which processes…
Read MoreWhat You Need To Know About How A New Location Impacts Your Payroll And HR
Do you know how many Starbucks locations there are around the globe? If you guessed around 30,000 locations, you’re correct! (It’s hard to get an exact figure and I assume that’s because they are adding new stores almost daily.) You can buy a cup of, arguably, the world’s most recognized coffee in 78 countries and…
Read MoreCompany Growing Overnight? What You Need to do to Ensure Payroll and HR Keep up
“I wish I were big.” With those five words Josh Baskin goes to bed a 12-year-old boy and wakes up a 30-year-old man (played by Tom Hanks) in the movie, “Big.” While he got what he wished for, his overnight growth came with many challenges— among the first, squeezing into a pair of his adolescent…
Read MoreChoosing a Payroll Provider Based on Price Alone? Here are Three Reasons to Think Again
Depending on how you are processing your payroll, chances are it’s not the easiest part of your job. Managing time sheets, calculating overtime and holidays, and keeping up with confusing local, state, and federal labor laws is time-consuming and stressful. Not to mention your other human resource responsibilities like recruiting, hiring, onboarding, benefits administration and…
Read MoreWhy Bigger Isn’t Always Better When it Comes to Payroll Providers
If you’re like most people, you don’t have spare time to watch the minutes tick away while you wait to talk to a random customer service rep. You probably do it enough in your personal life, whether you’re troubleshooting a home internet outage or trying to get to the bottom of a medical bill. Pressing…
Read MoreHow to Keep Your Payroll From Consuming All of Your Profit
Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at all the things related to paying your employees, including direct deposit, payroll frequency, and setting salaries. Now we’re going to look at the big picture concerning payroll and consider how to prevent labor costs from eating up all of your profit. Managing labor costs can generate a…
Read MoreWhat Employers Need to Know About Payroll Frequency
If you’re a business owner or manage payroll for your organization, one of the first decisions you will make prior to setting up your payroll system is how often to pay employees. People love to get paid so the fact that you are paying them is, well, awesome! One thing that employees seem to agree…
Read MoreEverything You Need to Know about Direct Deposit
In our electronic age, the days of paper paychecks are slowing down. Payday with a paper paycheck is awesome but it also means that you have to guard that check like a winning lottery ticket until you deposit it in the bank. And if you want to access that money quickly you need to head…
Read MoreEnd the Payroll and HR Clutter: 10 Reasons to Go Paperless
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve probably heard about Marie Kondo, an organizing guru who’s developed a method of simplifying your life called the KonMari method. She wrote a book called, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” that inspired a Netflix show in which she visits American homes and helps families cut the…
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