Author: Robert Hernandez

As your company continues to grow, it's imperative that you're always looking for ways to improve and add efficiency wherever you can. Beyond updating and evolving processes, this also includes implementing new tools that can work to save your organization time. One of these tools is...

Essential HR allows employees to manage and enter their own HR data so you can focus on what's essential - growing your business! Reduce time-consuming onboarding work   With Essential HR , there's no need to meet face-to-face. You can easily onboard employees at your own convenience. Eliminate...

TimeWorksTouch from Payroll Partners has all the features you need to track time and compliance. This affordable biometric employee time clock is designed for both office and non-office work environments. It's ideal for manufacturing, construction, and other workplaces where wires are not possible.  Fingerprint Reader    Positively identifies fingerprints...

Although most managers don't enjoy giving feedback, say through a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP), 83% "of employees really appreciate receiving feedback, regardless of whether it's positive or negative," says Officevibe, which helps companies with employee engagement.   If the feedback is negative, it generally means the employee...

No one knows what the workplace is going to look like in three months. COVID-19 continues to spread. School reopening and attendance plans remain tenuous. Further action from Congress is uncertain. Official rules from the Department of Labor might even be struck down in court,...

Traditional leave plans separate time off into different categories, such as vacation, sick, and personal time. Employees are allotted a specific number of days or hours for each category. The time off, which is based on length of service, must be taken for the allotted...

In April 2020, the Brookings Institution reported that due to COVID-19, "up to half of Americans are currently working from home, more than double the fraction who worked from home (at least occasionally)" in 2017-2018. While the pandemic is fast-tracking the telecommuting trend, for some...

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, millions of Americans received or are currently receiving unemployment compensation, many of them for the first time. It’s important for these individuals to know that unemployment compensation is taxable. People can have taxes withheld from this compensation now to help avoid...