Author: Margie Reed

Is This Your Situation: Investigating the Advantages of Outsourcing Payroll

As fulfilled and engaged as your employees may be with their jobs, if they have any issues with their paychecks, it won't take long for them to become frustrated. Some organizations have dedicated payroll departments and others find it useful to outsource this process to...

03 January, 2022

Required Minimum Distributions: Age 72 (or 70 ½)

Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) are minimum amounts that you must withdraw from your IRA or retirement plan account each year after you reach age 72 (70 ½ if you reach 70 ½ before Jan. 1, 2020). In a workplace retirement plan, you can delay taking...

31 December, 2021

From the HR Support Center: What is a workweek? Is it just our hours of operation?

A workweek is not the same thing as your hours of operation. Rather, it defines the 168-hour period (i.e., seven 24-hour days) in which you track your non-exempt employees’ time to determine whether they’re owed any overtime premium pay. The workweek can start and end whenever...

30 December, 2021

Church Business Preparations for a Successful Year End

Like other corporate entities, churches encounter business activities that must be completed just before, or soon after, the end of the calendar year. Now is the time to make plans for these various tasks. The questions that follow can be used as a checklist for...

29 December, 2021

Payroll Partners Offers Geofencing as an Employee Mobile Tracking Tool

If you need to know if employees are working at the correct location, you need geofencing. What is Geofencing? Geofencing is a mobile tracking tool that can specify a virtual boundary. The virtual boundary is called a geofence. It is based on the real-life physical location. The Geofence...

28 December, 2021

On-Demand Pay: A Growing Payroll Trend

A 2020 report by Ernst & Young says on-demand pay is "the term used to describe a category of financial products that give employees the ability to draw on their accrued wages before payday." The Case for On-Demand Pay In 2017, CareerBuilder reported that a staggering...

27 December, 2021

Pandemic Leads to State Border Tax Complications

Do you run a company with an at-home workforce, leaving you with employees now working in another state? Are you such an employee yourself? You may be facing some tax confusion. Having some basic understanding of what happens will help businesses make the right decisions about...

24 December, 2021

How To Hire in a Tough Market

As a manager, you know how to promote your products. In a tight labor market, it may help you to view your job postings in the same way. Think of candidates as clients whose journey must be moved from awareness to consideration to loyalty —...

23 December, 2021

Volunteers: Knowing Their Importance

Would your budget survive if you suddenly had to pay your volunteers for their time? Most nonprofits would answer with a resounding "no." But financial gain isn't the reason your volunteers show up to help. They are actively supportive because they believe in your organization's...

22 December, 2021

Is This Your Situation: Concerned About Time Management

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management philosophy aimed at bringing you focus and creative freshness. It may just help you complete projects faster with less mental fatigue. Here's how it works: For every project throughout the day, you budget your time into short increments...

21 December, 2021