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Does Outsourcing Payroll Make Sense For Your Business? 2560 1799 PayReel
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Does Outsourcing Payroll Make Sense For Your Business?

For some businesses, getting out from under onboarding, vendor payment, classifying temporary employees, and other hiring/payroll demands makes all the difference. It can free them up to focus on the central aspects of their business.  Some of the top issues intertwined with payroll are overtime rules, federal and state compliance, insurance requirements for workers, benefit eligibility…

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Worker Classification: The Billion Dollar Dispute

While many things remain in question right now, one thing we know for sure is that each year takes us ever further from the traditional employment model of our ancestors. As always, when things rapidly change, there’s a period of trial and error (emphasis on the trial) while we figure things out. What’s been changing…

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Are You Thinking About Freelancing? Here’s What I Wish I Knew A Decade Ago 2560 1709 PayReel
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Are You Thinking About Freelancing? Here’s What I Wish I Knew A Decade Ago

I was one year and two weeks into teaching high school when I realized it was–without a doubt–not a good fit. I didn’t know what to do with myself. I’d won awards in the position I had left the previous year but, while I was certainly happier in sales than in teaching, that profession didn’t…

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Risk And Compliance When Direct Sourcing (This is Non-Negotiable!) 1920 1080 PayReel
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Risk And Compliance When Direct Sourcing (This is Non-Negotiable!)

Using your own talent pool can be a wonderful way for businesses to meet their contingent workforce needs. Direct sourcing is the practice of finding and recruiting talent and then building, nurturing, and drawing from an internal network rather than enlisting a third-party. It’s an increasingly popular (and feasible) option and it has many benefits. Still, there’s one…

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Do You Need Payroll Services? This 2-Minute Quiz Will Help You Decide 2560 1707 PayReel
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Do You Need Payroll Services? This 2-Minute Quiz Will Help You Decide

Time is money. And when you have a tendency to get buried under onboarding, vendor payment, classifying temporary employees, and other hiring details, time is priceless. 10 Questions to Determine Whether to Hire Someone to Handle Your Payroll Do you regularly hire independent contractors and/or temporary employees? Is hiring and onboarding one of the most time-consuming parts…

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How to Make Hiring And Paying Workers For Events The Easiest Part of Your Day 2560 2560 PayReel
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How to Make Hiring And Paying Workers For Events The Easiest Part of Your Day

It’s always a good idea to treat your workers right. Aside from just being the right thing to do, it also makes business sense to make onboarding easy and payment quick and accurate. The current labor shortage just makes it extra important because workers have options and you want to be sure that your project…

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Would Your Business Benefit from Partnering With an Employer of Record?  2560 1707 PayReel
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Would Your Business Benefit from Partnering With an Employer of Record? 

Today we’re going to talk about what exactly an EOR is, who can benefit most from partnering with one and why, and what you can do today if you’re ready to cut that red tape and get out from under a mountain of onboarding paperwork. Let’s start with what an Employer of Record (or an EOR)…

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Here’s What to do if You Think You’ve Misclassified a Worker 2560 1707 PayReel
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Here’s What to do if You Think You’ve Misclassified a Worker

You already know that W2 employees and independent contractors are entitled to different benefits and typically, independent contractors cost companies a lot less than employees. For this reason, some companies have bent the rules and classified workers incorrectly on purpose. Others have taken advantage of gray areas in the law to save money. And believe…

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What Record-Breaking Heat Waves Mean For Your Business 2560 1707 PayReel
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What Record-Breaking Heat Waves Mean For Your Business

Yesterday, I drove by a young man directing construction traffic from the side of a freshly-tarred road. We are in the middle of a heat wave in my area and even by 9 AM, we were well into the 90’s. If it had been a cartoon, I would’ve been able to see the heat waves rising…

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Gig Worker ≠ Independent Contractor ≠ Employee 2560 1707 PayReel
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Gig Worker ≠ Independent Contractor ≠ Employee

Employee classifications identify how the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)  apply to workers and what benefits they are legally entitled to or not. Because of this, the language we use around it matters! The terms we use to define workers can get thrown around interchangeably even though they’re actually different. Let’s define the language around independent contractor, gig…

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You Have Better Things to do With Your Time Than an Audit 5548 3699 PayReel
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You Have Better Things to do With Your Time Than an Audit

The court battle over which workers can be classified as independent contractors versus employees does affect your business whether you want to think about it or not. Whatever the IRS makes a priority  of a topic will soon be the focus of audits, too. In short: that means anyone with workers must be well-versed on…

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Cybersecurity And The Responsibility to Protect Your Company And Clients 2560 1707 PayReel
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Cybersecurity And The Responsibility to Protect Your Company And Clients

The interconnectedness of today’s digital world makes it increasingly important to be vigilant on the cybersecurity front. Digital information cannot be locked up in a safe and unlike a physical object, you may never even know it’s been obtained by a malicious agent. We learn early to keep our valuables under close watch but digitally, you’re…

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Here’s How to Keep Your Payroll Compliant When Laws Change 2560 1707 PayReel
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Here’s How to Keep Your Payroll Compliant When Laws Change

Keeping on top of the ins and outs of compliance is hard, time-consuming, high-stakes work. It’s worth it to make sure you have an in-house team or a partner dedicated to keeping your payroll services running smoothly and accurately. Legal Considerations It’s hard to think of a higher-stakes aspect of business than where the money goes…

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Cyberattacks Are Coming: The Time to Protect Your Business is Now 2560 1709 PayReel
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Cyberattacks Are Coming: The Time to Protect Your Business is Now

President Biden’s warning to businesses was clear: Russian cyberattacks are coming.  Tensions amid sanctions and Russia’s war in Ukraine are high and Putin’s playbook for countering such measures includes cyberattacks on essential aspects of American life. Consumers will remember last May’s cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline, which cut off nearly 50% of the fuel capacity for…

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How to be a Hero to Your Freelancers and Employees 2560 1696 PayReel
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How to be a Hero to Your Freelancers and Employees

According to this report, more than half of freelancers have over 50K in unpaid/late invoices. If you’re one of the clients whose invoice is showing up in the red, you are going to lose favor with your workers. To a big company, that amount may seem like small potatoes, but to smaller businesses, it can…

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The Fundamentals for a Solid Team in a Changing Workplace 2560 2048 PayReel
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The Fundamentals for a Solid Team in a Changing Workplace

In the movie Miracle, a ragtag group of individuals from rival schools transforms into a well-functioning team and the unlikely winners of the Olympic gold. During tryouts, many of the United States’ top hockey players made a show of their fancy skating skills. Still, Coach Herb Brooks had something more basic in mind. He knew this…

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Strategies to Help You Through The Changing Workplace 2560 1700 PayReel
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Strategies to Help You Through The Changing Workplace

Like a lot of you, we’ve been reading about how to adjust to the changing workplace. We hope you find this curated list of the Harvard Business Review’s resources to help you through the changing workplace. The Great Resignation 6 Strategies to Boost Retention Through the Great Resignation (Harvard Business Review) How to Hang On to…

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Hiring Independent Contractors The Right Way 2560 1920 PayReel
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Hiring Independent Contractors The Right Way

Hiring independent contractors has many benefits. Companies appreciate the ability to engage only when needed and end engagement whenever it makes sense, outsourcing tasks not related to your core business, have less onboarding hassle, and not having to pay for benefits. It makes sense why engaging independent contractors is often to a company’s advantage, but…

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Is Your Brand Ambassador an Employee or an Independent Contractor? 1814 2560 PayReel
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Is Your Brand Ambassador an Employee or an Independent Contractor?

Clients tell us they grapple with worker classification over and over. They wonder whether workers should be treated as W-2 employees or as 1099 independent contractors. It can be a complicated subject and every time the game changes, the rules change, too. Fortunately, with brand ambassadors, it can quickly become simple. The answer comes down…

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Customizable Contractor Payroll And Benefits 2496 1664 PayReel
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Customizable Contractor Payroll And Benefits

Many businesses can outsource an entire department and save mountains of paperwork by partnering with a company specializing in online payroll and HR administration. Such a partner facilitates employee and contractor payroll while also tracking and managing benefits and taxes. While it’s a natural fit for small businesses, large companies often engage payroll partners, too,…

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