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Navigating Payroll Tax Problems: Common Pitfalls and How Technology Can Help

This blog explores common payroll tax problems and how using advanced HR and payroll technology can help streamline your payroll processes, ensure compliance, and reduce the risk of costly penalties. 

Labor Optimization Made Simple with UKG Strategic Workforce Planning

In today's tight labor markets, businesses must engage in labor optimization to enhance employee efficiency and productivity while reducing costs. Discover how UKG Strategic Workforce Planning can help your organization adapt to change, stay competitive, and achieve long-term success by ensuring you have the right people with the right skills in the right places at the right time.

Benefits Across Borders: Translating Care into Action

Navigating the complexities of global employee benefits is a nuanced challenge that touches on pay, well-being, equity, and trust. Discover how aligning benefits with local contexts, supported by robust payroll systems, can build confidence and foster a stronger, more connected global workforce.

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People as a Priority: 3 Ways to Invest in Employee Development for Long-Term Business Success

Discover how strategic investment in employee development fuels long-term business success. Learn 3 actionable ways to build a future-ready workforce through alignment, culture, and human-centered design.

How to Reduce Employee Attrition by 25%

Discover how investing in employee development can reduce turnover, boost engagement, and drive business success.

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From Courtroom to Code: How I Reinvented My Career (And You Can Too)

Discover how Kia transitioned from a successful legal career to tech recruiting, overcoming challenges and leveraging transferable skills. This playbook offers practical steps and resources to help you navigate your own career change, whether you're aiming for tech, teaching, or beyond. Embrace your journey and turn your dreams into a concrete plan.

Reducing Year-End Close Stress: Tools and Techniques

The essential tools and strategies payroll and finance leaders need to ensure a seamless and stress-free year-end close.

Social Media Tips for Small Business: How to Highlight Culture and Attract Talent

For small businesses, hiring and attracting the right people can have a huge impact on success. Social media provides an opportunity to stand out and compete with larger and well-established companies in the battle for talent.

Investing in Your Frontline Employees in Distribution and Transportation Leads to a Strong ROI

Investing in L&D for frontline employees in distribution and transportation is proven to drive strong returns through multiple channels, such as higher productivity and efficiency, better employee retention, and improved safety performance.

Helpful Tips for Experiencing a Joyful Career: What I’ve Learned

While nursing is a unique and complex profession, there are myriad lessons that I believe everyone can glean from my career. After all, even if you are not looking for a career in healthcare, there is a niche for all of us. Allow me to pay it forward and share some of the lessons I think we can all learn from, whether we are just beginning our career, continuously honing our craft, or reflecting on decades of experience.

The Case for Pay Transparency in Global Payroll

Why does the gender pay gap still persist? March 25, 2025, marks Equal Pay Day—a stark reminder that women in the U.S. earn just 83 cents for every dollar earned by men. With new pay transparency laws emerging worldwide, this article explores the fight for pay equity and what businesses must do next.

Closing the Opportunity Gap: Why Investing in Frontline Employees Matters

Frontline employees are a valuable but often-overlooked talent pool. Investing in their development not only helps address workforce shortages but also strengthens retention, engagement, and business success.

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Understanding Work-Life Balance: Questions to Ask Your Potential Employer

Ask these work-life balance questions to potential employers to ensure your career aligns with your personal well-being and happiness.

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7 Must-Have Service and Support Features Your HR and Payroll Software Vendor Should Offer

Implementing HR and payroll software can transform your business with time and cost savings, improved accuracy, and better compliance. However, it’s important to make sure you also evaluate your chosen vendor’s implementation, service, and support features. In this blog post, we explore the top 7 support features a vendor should offer, including a smooth implementation process, proactive support, and experienced, flexible assistance.

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Redefining Career Development for Employees through Internal Mobility and Skill Matching

Explore why skill matching matters in career development for employees and how it contributes to a people-centric culture.

Back to Basics: How Data Plays a Foundational Role in HR

Small businesses often face significant challenges in managing HR, payroll, time, and benefits data, which typically result from the use of manual processes that are prone to errors. Having a centralized location for data and processes is crucial to ensure accuracy and compliance.

2025 Megatrends: A Roadmap for the Future of the Public Sector

Dive into how UKG's 2025 Megatrends could impact the public sector in the years ahead.

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Life at UKG

Empowering Insights: A Day in the Life of a Lead Insights and Enablement Analyst at UKG

In this insightful Q&A, Callie O., Lead Insights and Enablement Analyst at UKG, shares her career journey, the challenges she faces in data storytelling, and how UKG supports her professional growth. 

Customizing Payroll for Global Organizations: Navigating Complexity with a Human Approach

Navigating global payroll is complex due to varying laws, regulations, and business structures across countries. Organizations face unique challenges when managing payroll for diverse workforces, necessitating tailored solutions that comply with local requirements. Different approaches, such as in-house management, outsourcing, or hybrid models, can be employed based on specific needs. A modern payroll strategy prioritizes employee experience, ensuring timely and accurate payments while leveraging technology to streamline processes and enhance compliance. Ultimately, selecting the right payroll partner is crucial for achieving operational efficiency and employee satisfaction.

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Embracing Pay Transparency to Drive Equity

Embracing pay transparency can enhance employer branding, attract diverse talent, and ultimately drive organizational success. Learn how legislation like the EU Pay Transparency Directive is revolutionizing workplace equity and how technology can help address systemic pay biases.

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