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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
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
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
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?
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
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.
Payroll
Leveling the Paying Field: Pay Transparency for SMBs
Pay equity and pay transparency can be intimidating topics for HR teams at small businesses, but the benefits are big. Learn the importance of eliminating pay inequities and how it builds trust, accountability, and fairness within workplaces.
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Work From Anywhere: Complexities of Remote Work Compensation and Taxation
A comprehensive global payroll system will offer the flexibility needed to coordinate the tax liabilities of remote and in-person employees as they come up and help identify any potential issues with payment.
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Revolutionizing Payroll Management: The Power of AI in Payroll
AI in payroll is particularly valuable for detecting anomalies, producing meaningful data, automating tasks and streamlining payroll processes. Payroll professionals greatly benefit from these efficiency gains, allowing them to make more informed decisions based on data-driven insights.
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How Scalable Payroll Software Fuels Global Business Growth
Discover the transformative power of scalable payroll software for your global expansion efforts.