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How to Focus on Mental Health for Better Employee Benefits

Mental health is an expensive issue for business owners. Depression, the leading cause of disability worldwide, costs the U.S. economy $210.5 billion per year in absenteeism, reduced productivity and medical costs, affecting more than 16 million Americans, according to the American Psychiatric Association. Lost productivity accounts for $44 billion of the $210.5 billion. May is […]

Want to Grow Profitability? Look at HR for Help

As a business owner, when you think about how you can make your company profitable, your first thoughts are increasing sales, cutting costs and managing unavoidable expenses. Chances are you don’t think of human resources unless you want to add or cut staff as part of this plan. Human resource experts hold the power to […]

4 Ways to Ease Your HR Burden

Running your own business is not easy and more often than not you’ll feel like you’re being pulled in all kinds of directions and asked to wear more hats than you ever dreamed of. There is a solution – outsourcing employee benefit management services to a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) that can help with the less […]

Are You Sure Employees Understand New Benefit Offerings?

New year, new benefits! Whether you’ve selected a brand-new broker with all new offerings, or simply just re-upped the same tried and true package, there are still changes (yep, even on those “same” policies) that your employees need to understand. Communicate these changes, short of doing an in-depth Q and A with each of your […]

Top HR Checklist for 2019

If you’ve made the promise that 2019 is the year that you’re FINALLY going to get organized, this is the checklist for you. It includes dates that you as a business owner should have on your calendar in order to stay on top of various HR-related tasks and deadlines even when you work with a […]

Importance of Proper Worker Classification on the Bottom Line

Take a quick headcount in your office. How many people are currently in the office? How many are part time or full time? Do you know how they are classified? How you classify your employees means a lot to how you account for them when determining your workers’ compensation insurance costs. Workers’ compensation costs are […]

Stuck On The Benefits Alphabet Soup?

If there’s one thing that can overwhelm a business owner it’s the alphabet soup acronyms that comes along with human resources administration. Indeed, there is an abbreviation for just about every law, process, form and proceeding you’ll come in contact with – it’s near impossible to keep up. Until now. Below is a list of […]

Checklist: Enrollment Time Doesn’t Have to be Hard

For the small business owner, the annual benefits enrollment process can be complex, especially since employees want to be educated about benefits and any changes that result from federal and state reforms. They will be looking to you, their employer, to provide this knowledge. Majority of employees (77 percent) spend 60 minutes or less preparing for and […]