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How Long You’re Actually Required to Keep Employee Records

A new HR leader inherits a filing cabinet, a shared drive, and three different opinions about how long to keep…

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How to Build a Multi-State SUTA Forecast Before Budget Season

If your company operates in more than a handful of states, state unemployment tax is one of the few payroll…

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How to Document a Workplace Investigation So It Protects the Company Later

A workplace complaint rarely arrives on a convenient day. It shows up in the middle of a product launch, a…

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Do You Need a Formal Payroll Operating Model at 10 to 24 Employees

Most small businesses never sit down and choose how payroll gets run. It happens by accident. A bookkeeper who already…

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When the Founder-Run Payroll Model Stops Working at 25 to 75 Employees

Nobody sits down at five employees and designs a payroll operating model. The founder runs it from a spreadsheet on…

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Why Payroll Operating Models Break Between 75 and 250 Employees

By the time a company reaches 75 to 250 employees, payroll is not new. It runs. Checks go out. Taxes…

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Payroll Operating Models for Multi-Entity, Multi-State Companies

Consider a hypothetical: a payroll director at a specialty logistics company can tell you exactly when the model stopped working.…

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Recognizing When a Client’s Payroll and Benefits Data Are Out of Sync

A client calls you at renewal with a census that doesn't match reality. Three employees who left the company are…

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Recognizing When Your Accountant Has Become the Payroll Bottleneck

Most growing companies start payroll the same way: the accountant or CPA who already does the books takes it on…

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