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How Phishing Attacks Work on Payroll Systems
As a small business owner, it’s important to protect your payroll system from unauthorized access. Otherwise, cybercriminals can manipulate your payroll system to steal money from your organization. For more on phishing attacks and how to prevent them, read on. What...
How Phishing Attacks Work on Payroll Systems
As a small business owner, it’s important to protect your payroll system from unauthorized access. Otherwise, cybercriminals can manipulate your payroll system to steal money from your organization. For more on phishing attacks and how to prevent them, read on. What...
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7 Advantages to Providing Paid Time Off for Your Employees
It’s easy to see the attraction of paid time off (PTO) for your employees, but there are also important business benefits to PTO as well. In fact, fast-growth companies are more likely to provide this benefit to workers than zero-growth firms. By offering PTO,...
5 Reasons You’re Over-Thinking Your Leadership Decisions
(This article originally appeared in 'The People Equation' blog by Jennifer Miller)How much time each week do you spend making decisions? Likely, many of the choices you make are almost automatic, requiring little thought: attend that meeting or not? Stay late to...
How the Workforce Works Today
Turn the clock back to the ‘70s and 80s for just a moment. Remember when your mother or father left the house for work each weekday? Remember what time they returned home from work at the end of their day? How did your parents get to work? Did they take a lunch break...
Don’t Use Pay As Your Babysitter: How Managers Should Actually Manage Pay
From the 'Talent Management Excellence Essentials’ magazine’s May, 2015 issue is an article on common compensation fallacies, written by Chuck Csizmar of the CMC Compensation Group. Have you ever used a babysitter? This is when you have someone else assume your...
NC FUTA Tax Rate to Decrease for 2015 Tax Year
North Carolina's governor, Pat McCrory, has announced that North Carolina has paid off its federal unemployment insurance debt. As a result, North Carolina will not be a federal credit reduction state in the 2015 tax year. North Carolina employers will pay federal...
Biometrics: The Next Great Workplace Technology
By: Tom Loveland, Global SVP of Product Strategy If you like 007 or Mission Impossible movies like I do, then you’ve seen biometrics at work – at least the Hollywood version of biometrics. Eye scanners, fingerprint readers, and facial-recognition systems are Ethan...
Millennials – Are employers managing this shift taking place?
This year, the “Millennial” generation is projected to surpass the outsized Baby Boom generation as the nation’s largest living generation, according to the population projections released by the U.S. Census Bureau last month. Millennials (whom we define as between...
Air Travel and Productivity
By: Tom Loveland, Global SVP of Product Strategy Before air travel was ever introduced to the masses, it was evident that taking a plane ride was more designed for business than for leisure. In fact, air travel caters, in large part, to business travelers who need to...
Juggling Multiple Summer Vacation Requests
You want to support employees by providing the opportunity for work/life harmony, but you also have customers to service and a business to run. Sometimes it is difficult to juggle multiple vacation requests around popular vacation times, especially during the summer...
New and Enhanced Payroll Employee Portal Adds Mobile Access
The Employee Self-Serve website has a new address and a new look. Now called the Payroll Employee Portal, the site allows employees to access their pay information from a computer and their mobile devices! The Payroll Employee Portal allows employees to see their pay...
Transgender Rights in the Workplace: A Guide for Employers to Protect Against Harassment & Discrimination
Last week, President Obama signed an executive order banning discrimination against gay or transgender federal employees and contractors. On the same day, the first gender-neutral bathroom became available in the White House. The topic of transgender identity may be...
Spring Cleaning Your Leadership Checklist
In a recent edition of the New York Times, Daniel Goleman summarized his key list of leadership imperatives. There's no breakthrough learnings in Mr. Goleman's list but it serves as a constant reminder of the distinction between managing and leading. Spring...
There’s A New Way to Work – Get Used to It!
By: Steven Rodriguez, Chief Operating Officer There’s a new way to work and I’m not talking about your commute to the office. Actually, when you look at work trends closely, there are several new ways to work.The movements I’m talking about include: Working from home...
Is It Time to Put the Performance Review on a PIP?
Recently, the Society of Human Resources posted the following article which continues the movement towards alternative performance management processes that more realistically reflect the nature of how work is performed and communications around performance are more...
Maximizing a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Program at Your Organization
By Joe Karbowski, Global SVP of Technology The term BYOD first emerged in 2009. That’s when Intel first recognized that many of its own employees chose to use their personal mobile phones instead of an IT-approved device. Today, around 60% of U.S. employees say they...
Seven Green Business Initiatives to Reduce Your Corporate Carbon Footprint
By: Craig Seager, Sales & Channel Director EMEA & APAC Going green. Recycling. Reducing waste. These are terms that have been top of mind for us as individuals for many years. But many businesses still haven’t jumped on the “green initiative” bandwagon. The...
Individual Health Plan Premium Reimbursement Delay
The IRS recently issued a notice that provides transitional relief to small employers who provide reimbursements for their employees to purchase individual health insurance on the marketplace. With that relief, however, the IRS also clarified that the new...
The Internet of Things Designed for Businesses of Today
By: Joe Karbowski, Global SVP of Technology “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” said the Wizard of Oz to Dorothy and her trio of friends when they returned to the Emerald City. The mysterious man behind the curtain comes to mind when I read articles...
Is It Time for Wearable Tech in the Workplace?
By Tom Loveland, Global SVP of Product Strategy In just a few short years, wearable technology has gone from birth, to crawl to run. In fact the first wearable, produced by Jawbone in 2011, just celebrated its fourth birthday. You can see a complete history of...
Reminder: OSHA 300A Forms Must Be Posted by February 1
Have you prepared your OSHA 300A Form to be posted by February 1, 2015 yet? The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) mandates that all employers who are required to maintain the OSHA 300 Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses post a summary of the...
Independent Contractor (Self-Employed) or Employee?
Independent Contractor (Self-Employed) or Employee?It is critical that business owners correctly determine whether the individuals providing services are employees or independent contractors.Generally, you must withhold income taxes, withhold and pay Social Security...
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