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A business owner’s guide to effective, compliant workforce management

What Growing Businesses Need to Know About Payroll and Tax Compliance

Payroll is a critical function for businesses of all types and sizes. Payroll processing and tax compliance require a tremendous amount of attention to detail to ensure accuracy. With an entrepreneurial spirit and focus on growing your company, your time is already...

Six Ways to Support Business Growth with HR Technology

Many entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs seek to lead their business through periods of consistent growth. Leaders commonly focus significant time and effort on growing one or more of the following categories: revenue, sales, market share, and workforce. The...

W-4 Makeover: IRS and States Tackle New Withholding Landscape

Updated for 2020: what you need to know about the new W-4While the IRS just introduced its new version of the W-4, some states have already implemented new forms of their own as state and federal taxing agencies scramble to replace withholding forms that may not...

3 Steps for Avoiding the Horror of Year-End Payroll Tax Management

Are you still celebrating the fact that you made it through another year-end? Beware: The next one comes around again faster than you and your payroll tax processes may be prepared for.The ubiquitous turn-of-the-decade, Gatsby-themed parties are over and...

Hottest Resolution For 2020: Think Outside The (Big) Box

With rapidly advancing technology and the number of customer-focused services available, the forward-thinking younger workforce prefers plentiful options. Nowadays, even the most basic act of ordering a latte comes with an abundance of milk choices you...

Headhunter vs Recruiter—What’s the Difference?

According to Harvard Business Review, until the 1980s, companies filled about 90% of their vacant positions with internal candidates--either those receiving a promotion or a lateral reassignment. Today, less than one-third of open positions are filled internally. With...

Importance of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

Emotional intelligence (EQ) refers to a person’s ability to understand and manage his or her emotions. Though often difficult to fully understand the cause and impact of emotions, researchers are beginning to recognize the important role they play in employee-employer...

What You Need to Know About the Gig Economy

Thanks to the growing gig economy, the number of independent, self-employed workers is on the rise. In the gig economy, businesses hire contractors instead of full-time employees to complete short-term engagements or assignments. According to Gallup, “about 36% of...

Payroll Tax Software Implementation Done Right

Revisited: Our Implementation Supervisor walks you through the process of implementing our state-of-the-art payroll tax software…A Process Designed Around YouIt’s not hard to know when your current system for processing payroll taxes has stopped working. Have you come...

Tips for Workplace Time Management

According to a survey by salary.com, 89% of respondents admitted to wasting time every day at work. Other research showed the average worker puts in less than three productive hours each workday. Most employees need to be more organized and productive, and there’s a...

How to Create a Transparent Work Culture

Building a great company and positive work culture is an important component of a successful business. Work culture can positively impact recruiting efforts, employee engagement, productivity, and customer service. That’s why leading businesses build their culture...

Why Automate Payroll

Why Automate Payroll

From wages and direct deposits to benefits and overtime calculations, navigating your payroll’s moving parts is cumbersome.Akin to payroll are taxes. In the United States, there are more than 15,000 tax codes. They change frequently… Keeping ongoing tabs of the ones...

A Pricing Plan Inspired by Our Clients

At Asure, payroll tax management is one of our areas of expertise, but our real business is making things easier for payroll providers.That's why when we became aware that our clients wanted an easier way to pay for using our software solution, FlexTax®, we made...

Outsourcing HR Projects

Complexities of Human Resources operations has necessitated 3rd-party involvement to assure operational integrity and compliance. Today, 80+% of companies outsource some or all facets of their HR duties, with that number steadily trending higher.Time, cost and...

Tidings of Comfort and Avocados at Year-End

Here’s a fact: 143% of American workers report experiencing daily stress and anxiety on the job. EDITOR’S NOTE: Some of us could use a vacation, apparently.Here’s another fact: There are 400 gazillion ways to relieve stress and anxiety on the job, including 48...

What is a Health Insurance Waiver?

In 2019, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 87% of full-time civilian workers had access to medical care benefits while only 74% participated in their employer’s healthcare plan. There are several reasons why employees decide to waive health insurance...

What is an HSA?

For most employees, access to affordable healthcare coverage is the most important benefit provided by an employer outside of their paycheck. But with the cost of healthcare rising twice as fast as wages and three times faster than inflation overall, employers are...

What is Impostor Syndrome and How Does It Affect Employees

A recent survey of 2,400 adults revealed that about one-third of U.S. employees have felt unqualified for their job. Despite real experience and qualifications, some employees feel they don’t deserve their job, promotion, or opportunity. Studies show that a...

Project Based HR Consulting

Today, the realm of Human Resources within organizations is all-encompassing. If your people are involved in any matter needing oversight, HR is involved.HR management is becoming progressively important to businesses as the US economy becomes increasingly...

Workplace Conflict Resolution Tips

Nearly all employees experience workplace conflict during the course of their careers. A study by CPP Inc., the company behind Myers-Briggs personality assessment, found that employees spend an average of 2.1 hours per week embroiled in workplace conflict. In one...

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