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Salary vs. Hourly Employees – How should you pay your hired help?

The decision on how to pay your employees can be hard. You not only have to decide how much you will pay them but you must decide whether you will pay them on an hourly or salaried basis. Laws and benefits exist for both ends of the spectrum that you should take into consideration when deciding. Pros and Cons of Paying Salary Wages A benefit of paying employees a...

Remote Teamwork

There are many benefits to working with remote employees and contractors — from reduced payroll costs to increased efficiency to schedule flexibility and much more. However, challenges such as coordinating teamwork and managing the legal status of your employees can also arise. If you do opt to work on a project with a remote team, then you may find the following 5 tips helpful. • Simplify, clarify, and assign....

What is Job Abandonment?

Every business owner has had experience of an employee quitting. And this can be rather disappointing, especially when the employee was someone who was particularly talented. But in normal circumstances, as frustrating as employee resignation can be, business owners can usually take solace in the fact that their employee made the effort to show respect and give due notice of their decision to move on. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always...

The Basics of Workplace Conflict Mediation

Traditionally speaking, Human Resources are usually viewed as a liaison between management and the workers. However, conflicts between employees are also very common — and when this occurs, HR departments are usually called upon to mediate. If you are an employer who finds yourself called upon to play a conflict-resolution role, you may be feeling rather overwhelmed. Fortunately, the art of workplace mediation is well-studied, and there are many...

The Growing Popularity of the Four-Day Work Week

A plethora of studies regarding employee habits and attitudes have revealed what many of us already suspected. The majority of workers report using sick days for personal needs. A majority also claim that free time is a crucial factor in aiding their productivity. And even businesses themselves could be benefiting by giving their employees an extra day of personal time. Here are a few reasons why this is the...

Helping Employees Become More Self-Sufficient

Helping employees thrive both professionally and personally is a great way to help your business thrive as well. In this article, we will discuss a few ways that you can encourage your employees to become more self-sufficient, thus increasing the overall productivity of your entire business.   First and foremost, it is important that you change your own mindset. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, but for many...

Recruiting Top Talent

Employees are everything to your business. They act as your representatives, reflecting the values of your company, and executing the projects that help your business achieve success. Why would you want anyone other than the best employees to work alongside you? If you feel yourself struggling to find top talent, here are 4 tips to get you started. 1. Use the web The internet provides an international pool of...

4 Tough HR Decisions Every Company Deals With

Organizations are defined in large by the people representing them. HR departments have the important responsibility of selecting and managing those people. Sometimes, these decisions are easy and straightforward: perhaps an excellent and highly motivated job candidate appears right when one position needs to be filled. Most of the time, however, things are a bit more complicated. Here are four of the toughest challenges that HR departments deal with:...

HR and Innovative Disruption

In 1995, Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School coined a term that would come to be very influential and widely used: disruptive innovation. Frequently referred to simply as disruption, the notion has become particularly useful in the internet age. It describes the process by which a small and unestablished business pioneers an important change in the industry by offering a similar service at a much lower price. Although there...

5 Services Offered by the Precise Payroll Human Resources Support Center

Given the low cost of outsourcing and the increasingly complicated set of laws regulating employer-employee relationships, a growing number of businesses are choosing to seek professional support when it comes to human resources.  If you currently handle your payroll operations through Precise Payroll, (or even if you don’t!) you may wish to consider letting us manage your HR as well.  Here are just few of the most important tasks...