Like many people, Molly initially felt unsure about remote work during the pandemic. Without fellow team members around, she worried about lonely days and feared being...
A little bit of procrastination at the office is surprisingly common, with 88% of workers reporting that they put off important work tasks for at least one hour each...
Some stores have already brought out the holiday decorations and Christmas music. However, Payroll teams are busy preparing for a different season — year-end...
Before 2020, employee monitoring in a traditional office environment was pretty straightforward. Managers and supervisors kept track of employee performance and...
Regardless of the sales pitch, on-demand pay is a boondoggle for Payroll. Every vendor will tell you why their on-demand pay program is worry-free for Payroll—it’s...
Meeting minutes are a staple of all Board meetings, and many internal company meetings, as they serve as an official written record of a meeting to aid in future...
The week after Labor Day is when many kids go back to school. It’s also when many companies are putting their collective feet down about a mandatory return-to-office...
If the COVID-19 crisis taught us one thing, it’s the need for businesses to be resilient during uncertain times. After all, disruptive events can happen at any time...
Someone asked recently if we have a one-page document explaining the revised W-4 that HR can provide to new employees who may not have filed a W-4 in years. We’ve...
It can be difficult to manage your time well at work. Keeping up with a multitude of tasks, projects, and demands while staying connected with your team and clients can...
Worried that your company might not have a particular document on hand if the IRS conducted an audit? Scared that producing relevant evidence in a former employee’s...
Employees file their W-4s and then forget about them. Whether they know it or not, when you withhold employees’ income taxes based on those W-4s, you’re introducing...
Do you hate tax cheats enough to turn them in? In your own company? Would it matter if you received a portion of the IRS’ recovery as a reward?
Recently, we discussed...
Ethics, our handy Webster’s Dictionary tells us, is the study of standards and moral judgment. Lawyers have a code of ethics running to booklet form and so do doctors...
Keeping track of paperwork can be a challenge. It’s easy to misplace a file or even spill coffee on a document on your desk. If you don’t have that document backed...
There were at least 11 on-demand pay vendors at the American Payroll Association’s Annual Congress last month, not including the national third-party payroll...
With pandemic restrictions easing and the full staff heading back to the office, Laura’s boss decided the time was right to perform some workspace reorganization. He...
Payroll compliance is no small task. Everyone knows that executing payroll accurately and on time is important, after all everyone wants to get paid for their world....
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that employers track the time that nonexempt employees spend working. Many use a swipe-card system, biometric scanner, computer...
“What percentage of your job is driven by laws and regulations,” asked Alice Jacobson, Esq., the American Payroll Association’s director of government relations....
