HOW MANY MINUTES PER DAY ARE YOU OVERPAYING EMPLOYEES? Employee wages and benefit expense is the highest cost for most businesses. This cost continues to rise as new laws create increased mandatory time off, paid family leave, and higher minimum wage. Now more than ever, employers seek for a balance between remaining profitable, and in…
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Onboarding a new employee can be quite challenging and time-consuming. Every phase of the employee onboarding process is important, so make sure to have a new hire checklist to onboard your new employee. You can use the following outline as a guide, however, every organization will have its own unique requirements. These tasks will need…
Read MoreThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released the following news release “IRS Announces 2018 Pension Plan Limitations; 401(k) Contribution Limit Increases to $18,500 for 2018”, which includes the Highlights of Changes for 2018. IR-2017-177, Oct. 19, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced cost of living adjustments affecting dollar limitations for pension plans and…
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Understanding what an Employee Self-Service Portal Can Do Before the Employee Self Service (ESS) or employee portal, Human Resource professionals were required to manage such tasks such as changes to employee contact information, withholding status, PTO requests and more. Although the individual time spent for each of these tasks is small, they can add up…
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Looking at Hiring Interns? Interns can provide great value to businesses including new perspectives, an extra set of hands, and an opportunity to vet out new employees. Yet, hiring interns is more complicated than opening an unpaid job up for a college student. There are several things that businesses should be aware of and make…
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Here are the six different kinds of toxic employee types that can single-handedly destroy a healthy productive work environment. The “Busy Body”- This is someone who is constantly trying to tell others how to do their job while their productivity is severely lacking. They are too busy minding others business that they fail to take…
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People leave managers, not companies. Most of us have had to work for at least one bad boss before. They make work excruciating and leave us wondering why we should continue in such an environment. Eventually, stress and happiness have a war, and guess who wins? While pay, proximity to home, and job responsibilities all…
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Let me start out by saying disruption is good, but when it creates havoc and is the cause of missed deliverables, low morale in the workplace and the breakdown of trust among your employees; simply put, it is cancerous, and it must be eliminated quickly. How healthy is your company? Here is a culture “health”…
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Manual Timekeeping Pain Points Erroneous wages paid The American Payroll Association estimates that the rate of human error in time card preparation is between 1% and 8%. The Cost: A conservative 2% human error rate on a $12,000 payroll would equal $240 in erroneous wages paid per pay period. Moreover, the cost to re-issue correct payroll…
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Often times as business owners or executives we get so focused on gaining new customers that we fail to effectively meet the growing needs of our existing clients. According to Marketing Metrics, this is counter-productive, considering it’s far easier (about 50% easier) to sell to existing customers than to brand new prospects. Inexperienced and even…
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