It usually starts with an email in September or October. The CFO, or an FP&A analyst working on her behalf, needs labor numbers for next year's budget: headcount by...Read More
There is a special kind of dread that arrives with a 401(k) question. An employee says her deferral looks wrong. The recordkeeper's report does not match the payroll...Read More
You found the perfect candidate. The only catch: she lives in a state where your company has never had an employee. The offer is signed, the start date is three weeks out,...Read More
Every December, the same call comes in. A payroll manager opens the new year's schedule, spots a pay date sitting on a bank holiday, and realizes the whole calendar was...Read More
Nobody thinks about holiday pay in October. Then Thanksgiving week arrives, half the warehouse works the holiday and the other half doesn't, three supervisors interpret the...Read More
Every month it's the same ritual. Finance asks for labor cost by department. Payroll exports the report. Then somebody spends half a day in a spreadsheet, re-sorting rows,...Read More
Open enrollment is over. The reminder emails have stopped, the last stragglers made their elections, and HR is enjoying the first quiet week in a month. It's tempting to call...Read More
Somewhere between the open enrollment packets and the holiday schedule requests, an envelope from your state's unemployment agency lands in a mail pile. It looks like every...Read More
If you run payroll, you already know how January feels. W-2 questions stacking up before you've had coffee. An employee who moved in June and never told anyone, now asking...Read More
