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Payroll Trends to Watch in 2025

Uncover the top payroll trends for 2025, from AI to cybersecurity, and see how UKG One View empowers payroll teams to adapt and thrive.
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Sustainability in Payroll: Balancing People, Profit, and Planet

It is becoming increasingly important for companies to pursue sustainability in all business practices, including payroll.
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Your 2024 Year-End Payroll Preparation Checklist

The year-end payroll preparation process is one of the busiest and most critical times of the year. With so much going on, careful planning is essential. This comprehensive checklist can guide you through the year-end payroll process, making it much easier to manage.
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Global Payroll: Building Trust With Employees Through Moments That Matter

Building trust with employees happens in their day-to-day work through fair and competent management. This is why payroll and human resources professionals are so important: accurate pay can make or break trust with an employee.
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National Payroll Week: Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of Business Operations

Appreciating the intricate work involved in processing payroll and acknowledging the individuals who serve such a crucial role in the success of organizations everywhere.
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Maximizing Tax Credits for Small Businesses: A Guide for HR Professionals

Discover how tax credits can significantly boost your small or medium-sized business's bottom line. Our latest Payroll University blog provides actionable strategies to help you maximize these valuable incentives and reinvest those funds in growth, development, and benefits for your people. 
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Global Payroll Challenges: Why Payroll is Inherently Local

The phrase "Think Global, Act Local" is something of a cliche these days, but it conveys an important truth. The world has become so interconnected that events happening on a global scale increasingly affect local states of affairs. At the same time, the compound effects of decisions made at the local level give rise to the modern world as we know it.
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2024 Membership Survey Results: Challenges of Modern Global Businesses

UKG recently sponsored a survey with Payroll Org through their subscribers. to learn more about the real-world problems and challenges they experience in their daily lives, along with how a consolidated solution like UKG One View could help.
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Managing Payroll for Different Employee Classifications: A Comprehensive Guide for Small Businesses

This informative blog provides a guide to helping you understand the fundamentals of payroll compliance employee classifications.
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How to Navigate the New FLSA Overtime Rule

What do the most recent changes to the FLSA overtime rules mean for you? Here's a guide to understanding the changes and how they could affect your business.
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Why Payroll and Workforce Management Belong Together

Combined with the right workforce management technology, processing payroll doesn’t have to be a complicated, error-prone, manual process. Find out how.
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UKG Payroll University: What Are Payroll Garnishments and Deductions?

Learn how to navigate the complexities of payroll garnishments and deductions - including your responsibilities as an employer - and best practices for managing them.
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Improved Use of Data: The Power of Integrated Payroll Systems

For much of history, individuals and organizations have faced the problem of having too little information. But over the last couple of decades, that situation has reversed. Now, many companies have so much data that it can be difficult to make high-quality decisions. The amount of data they have varies based on the size of the organization, but more than 60% of organizations surveyed in the US and UK manage over than a petabyte of information. Much of that is unstructured data.
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The Top 7 Benefits of Payroll Automation Software for Small Businesses

Payroll automation software is becoming a must-have for delivering accurate, on-time payroll and ensuring compliance with tax regulations and payroll laws. Here’s how to leverage an automated solution to streamline and improve the accuracy of your payroll processes so you can focus on growing your business.
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4 Keys to Better HR and Payroll Management: Kickstarting Collaboration

HR and payroll can partner effectively if they keep their people at the heart of what they do. Here are four practical ways to get there.
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Empowering Employees with Self-Service Payroll

The trend towards on-demand self-service has spread practically everywhere, in large part thanks to the ubiquity of software and the internet. People expect to use apps, tools, online portals and automated systems for everything from paying taxes to ordering pizza.
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Paying Employees in Multiple Countries: The Power of a Unified Payroll System

Following dozens of different laws and regulations regarding taxation and employment is complicated, and mistakes can be costly. Yet that is exactly the challenge faced by multinational businesses.It is also difficult to ensure equal and fair pay when employees are paid in different currencies and live in countries with different costs of living. Without accurate and real-time insights about payment patterns, companies are often unaware of unfair treatment that is hurting employee sentiment.
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Compensation Planning: A Practical Guide for Small and Medium Businesses

A deep dive into how to create an effective compensation plan, from understanding its components and best practices to overcoming challenges and empowering organizations in optimizing employee value and achieving sustainable success.
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Best Practices in Modern Workforce Management and Payroll

Payroll lies at the heart of all business operations. Paying employees fairly and on time ensures that they feel respected and have a reason to do their jobs.
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4 Strategies to Ensure Compliance with Minimum Wage Laws

By understanding and adhering to these regulations, businesses can avoid costly penalties, enhance their reputation, and foster a more motivated workforce.

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