Tackling timekeeping can be a formidable challenge for any business owner. If you and your employees are lazy with timekeeping, you’re opening yourself up to financial hardship and a huge headache with a whole lot of hard work to fix the problems. One easy answer to timekeeping troubles is to meet with the off-site HR professionals at a Professional […]
As a small business owner, are you a real stickler for timekeeping accuracy or a little lax on the process, especially for your full-time exempt employees? If you are lazy about enforcing timekeeping, you’re opening yourself up to financial hardship and a huge headache with a whole lot of hard work to get yourself out […]
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 […]
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 […]
As an HR pro, you know that payroll gets “run” every two weeks, but you may not be aware of what the process really entails and how important the issue of compliance is. While it isn’t entirely necessary that you learn the intricacies of the payroll process, there are certain elements of payroll compliance that […]
In a perfect world, running payroll would be as simple as hitting a button and watching a series of perfect checks roll off the printer. However, any business owner who has ever played a role in generating payroll will tell you that the process is NEVER quite that easy. Between tracking down time cards, ensuring […]
In human resources, we place a lot of emphasis on time. We build a culture within our businesses that value timeliness, hitting deadlines, being rewarded for time spent on a project and keeping track of time. With this in mind, it should come as no surprise that the act of timekeeping itself is an important […]
We’ve barely entered the new year and good Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) are already talking about tax season. It may seem a little presumptuous, but every good HR pro knows between lost papers and wayward employees, a business is bound to hit a few snags along the way so best practice is to start preparing early […]
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 […]
It may seem odd for a human resource executive to drive the charge to outsource employee benefit management services to a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), but when the value of working together outweighs going at it alone, there really isn’t much of a business case against it. There are numerous ways a PEO can support existing […]
If you talk to a small business owner about why they might retain the services of a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), they’ll probably trot out some line about being able to assuage themselves of all things human resources related so that they can focus on other aspects of their business. Now ask an HR professional how […]
Once you’ve made the decision to outsource some of your human resources responsibility to an outside vendor, the next big decision is selecting the best vendor to meet your needs. The reality is that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for every business. Instead, you must evaluate each Professional Employer Organization for not only its quality as […]
