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Time is Money: The 411 on Outsourcing Payroll Processing

How does Payroll Processing help employers? A recent InfusionSoft survey found that “time to get everything done” is the single most frequently cited challenge faced by business owners. In small and mid-sized businesses especially, owners and executives often find themselves spending hours weekly (if not daily) on administrative payroll and HR functions instead of focusing on their
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Avoid Background Check Backlash

Background checks are an excellent form of due diligence that can protect employers from potentially catastrophic hiring mistakes. However, multiple laws apply to employer use of background checks, and careless implementation can create a lawsuit-fueled backlash against your company, as it has against companies like Uber, Amazon, UPS, Lowe’s, and many others. In fact, litigation based on just the
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Benchmarking HR Spend – and How to Improve It

Previously, we wrote about the growth stages of a small business, illustrating how the priorities and challenges facing an organization shift as it grows and matures. Something else that changes along the way: how much money or resources to devote to various business segments, like HR. The answer to that question is different for every company,
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3 Ways Company Values and Mission Statements Make an Impact

Many businesses have a mission statement posted on their website; some even write down specific values important to their business. But is it really meaningful or helpful to articulate a mission and core values for your organization? If all you’re going to do is post them on a plaque on the wall, then probably not.
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Compensation Strategy: Setting Rewarding AND Fair Rates

In our recent series on managing different kinds of workers – overachievers, under-performers, and everyone in between – we talked a lot about salaries. For one, we noted that it’s often appropriate to pay high performers more. That’s because top performers produce a disproportionate amount of the results for an organization (the top 5-8% of workers
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The Impact of Professional Employer Organizations on Business Growth Potential

Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) are for more than just employees. PEOs are designed to get employers out of the employer business, so that business owners and executives can focus their energies entirely on core, revenue-generating activities. But with the emphasis on transactional and legal responsibilities, it’s sometimes easy to forget the business outcomes that PEOs
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Dealing with the Complexity of Extended Leave

Whether it’s a personal sabbatical, a family medical issue, or an extended vacation, sometimes employees will vacate their usual job roles for an extended period under allowable circumstances. Whatever the nature of the leave, when an employee is gone for weeks at a time, it creates complexity for the employer, who must figure out how
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Technology That Helps Small Business Owners Drive Growth

The right technology investments can help drive growth for small business owners (although employees sometimes need some convincing). According to a new study from SAP SE, one-third of small-to-midsize businesses are “well under way in applying technology to connect people, devices and businesses.” The same study also hinted at the reason why: the same companies also saw
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