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What’s Your Payroll Tax Deposit Schedule? If You’re Not Sure, Read This

Patriot Software

When you have employees, your responsibility isn’t just to pay them. You also need to pay the IRS their share, too. How often you pay the IRS depends on your payroll tax deposit schedule. But, not all employers follow the same schedule. Your schedule, and thus payroll tax deposit due dates, depends on the type […] READ MORE.

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The Pros and Cons of Pay Transparency

Griffin Benefits

Emboldened by a strong labor market, employees find themselves in the driver's seat these days when it comes to demanding pay transparency. And with a growing list of jurisdictions now requiring employers to share compensation information, this trend shows no signs of slowing down. In this post we will address the rules surrounding pay transparency across the country and workers’ growing demand for it.

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Top 10 Best Payroll Software List For All Businesses

Qandle

If you operate a business, you know that maximum output depends on treating your staff well and paying them on time and accurately. Health insurance, retirement savings plans, and other perks may also be available. Your staff will be able to relax at work and put more effort into their job, which will ultimately boost your company’s production.

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Bringing value to healthcare benefits with simplicity

Employee Benefit News

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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How to Level Up Employee Benefits Education With Video

TalentCulture - Employee Benefits

As employee engagement continues to drift downward, organizations everywhere are looking for more efficient, effective ways to connect and communicate with their workforce. This is especially true for employee benefits education, where access to clear, complete and timely information is critical. What better way to help employees understand their benefits than with video?

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What should a comprehensive fertility support policy include?

Employee Benefits

A fertility support policy must be inclusive and not take gender, relationship status or age into account. Flexibility is key as employees may not know the dates when they may need to take time off of work for a scan, to review a drug regime or see a consultant for example, while timings around egg collection can change overnight. Employers should remember that fertility treatment does not just impact the individual undergoing it.

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These are the good old days

Florida Workers' Comp

There is a broad spectrum of intriguing news parading across the Internet these days. I struggle with volume and at times with comprehension. I periodically just do not get it. These pages are frequently about automation. That is going to have major impacts in the coming years on employment, workplace safety, and even injury and recovery management.

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72% think more recognition would improve workplace wellbeing

Employee Benefits

Close to three-quarters (72%) of employees said their workplace wellbeing would improve if they were thanked and recognised more frequently for their hard work, according to research by Reward Gateway. The 2023 employee engagement trends report spoke to 1,015 employees and 250 HR managers in the UK. It found that 32% rated the physical wellbeing support received from their employer as good or excellent, with 39% and 28% saying the same about the mental and financial assistance they received,

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RMDs: The Mandatory “Flipped Switch”

Money Talk

In my book, Flipping a Switch , I refer to required minimum distributions (RMDs) as “the mandatory flipped switch” (i.e., transition). This is because, unlike many other decisions in later life that involve choices, there is no choice about RMDs. They must begin starting at age 72, unless taxpayers want to pay a hefty 50% tax penalty. In conversations with older adults at classes that I teach, many tell me that RMDs are affecting their income taxes in a big way.

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4-Week Roadmap for New Hires

Nearly one-quarter of employees (23%) admit they’ve cried within the first week! Give new hires a positive start with this four-week onboarding roadmap. This schedule outlines all the turns, detours, and speedbumps new hires can expect in their first month. We’ve included suggestions for each week to help you make your new employees’ highway to success an easy road.

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7 Signs of a Good Manager

HR Digest

A good manager is a great asset to both an organization and its employees. Not only are they able to manage their team well, but they also possess some strong leadership skills that can have a positive effect on those around them. However, it’s difficult sometimes for people to know the signs of a good manager and how to easily spot them. Employees are also concerned about working with an individual that can show empathy and help them grow career-wise.

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Biofeedback for Stress: How It Can Improve Your Health

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is stress, and what does it do to your body? What is biofeedback? What biofeedback procedures are available? What can you learn from biofeedback? Using biofeedback to lead a healthier life. Biofeedback: Success stories of stress management. The benefits of using biofeedback. Finding new ways to relax.

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Bonnier Books UK encourages conversations around fertility issues

Employee Benefits

Publishing house Bonnier Books UK, which employs more than 300 members of staff in the UK, recognises the importance of opening up conversations and raising awareness of women’s health topics, such as fertility, menopause and pregnancy loss. The organisation has partnered with pregnancy charity Tommy’s to access training and resources in order to have the right and relevant conversations with staff and acknowledges that fertility and other women’s health issues can impact other workers too.

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Employer branding strategies to attract top talent

Business Management Daily

Companies often invest a great deal of time and money in creating a corporate brand. This public image helps the organization attract customers by carving out a niche within the crowded global marketplace. Consumers develop impressions of not only what the business brings to the table in terms of products and services, but also company values and mission.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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The shift from work-life to life-work balance: What leaders should know

Insperity

Work-life balance has been an employee mantra for decades. Its meaning has become engrained in our culture, as it’s brought up in discussion in ways like, “Make sure you have a good work-life balance and take time to spend with your family without working too much.”. But a change is underway that further upends the way work is viewed. Life-work balance is a new term that reflects a shift in how employees perceive the role of work in their lives.

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The Great Relearning about the Great Office Problem

Workplace Insight

One of the latest people to invent activity-based working is sociologist Ana Andjelic, who combines it with the similarly familiar hub and spoke office model on her substack as a solution to the Great Office Problem. She’s not the first and is a less surprising pioneer of a decades old model than some other people who should really know better. That includes an architectural practice who came up with the idea earlier this year and whose name escapes me.

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Buyer’s guide to employee assistance programmes 

Employee Benefits

What are employee assistance programmes? An employee assistance programme (EAP) is, at its core, a helpline, paid for by employers and provided free to staff, which provides confidential advice and assistance around a wide range of subjects that might affect them both at work and in their personal lives. This typically includes emotional counselling , financial, debt and legal assistance, information around child and elder care, as well as physical and mental health services.

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24 Happy New Year Wishes for Colleagues and Coworkers

Empuls

Sending warm corporate new year wishes to your colleagues and coworkers is a great way to celebrate the beginning of a new year. As the year is almost ending, it's time to celebrate the coming year with your colleagues. There are plenty of ways for you to bring in 2023 with style, and we have got some exclusive corporate New Year wishes for your colleagues and coworkers with you.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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What are the top non-monetary benefits for employees?

Pacific Prime

In a perfect world, your employees would all be super motivated and hardworking top performers. While every business will have its share of top performers, the reality is that most employees will be, well, average. The key struggle for many business owners and HR teams is in motivating these employees. In some cases, monetary benefits. The post What are the top non-monetary benefits for employees?

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Growing numbers of young people feel alienated by jobs market

Workplace Insight

New research from City & Guilds suggests that the odds are being stacked against young people’s futures and career aspirations – particularly the most disadvantaged. Following a trend of chronically high youth unemployment, the poll of 5,000 18-24-year-olds living in the UK claims that 13 percent are currently unemployed (not in work or studying) and a further 3 percent are economically inactive – equating to approximately 859,000 young adults out of work and education across the UK.

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Government commits to making flexible working day one right

Employee Benefits

The UK government has committed to introducing secondary legislation entitling employees to the ability to request flexible working from the first day of their employment. The government outlined plans to remove the 26-week qualifying period before employees can request flexible working, and allow them to make two flexible working requests in any 12-month period.

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8 Tips on How to Write a Professional Email (With Examples)

BetterUp

Jump to section. Why is it important to know how to write a professional email? Why is it important to know how to write a professional email? Get email etiquette right for each work situation. Time to hit send.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Washington State’s Pay Transparency Law Takes Effect January 1, 2023

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

Effective January 1, 2023, Washington employers must comply with SB 5761, commonly known as Washington’s Pay Transparency Law, signed by Governor Jay Inslee on March 30, 2022. SB 5761 amends Washington’s Equal Pay and Opportunity Act (RCW 49.58) to require employers with 15 or more employees to include in each job posting the wage scale […]. The post Washington State’s Pay Transparency Law Takes Effect January 1, 2023 appeared first on EMPLOYEE BENEFITS BLOG.

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Over half of offices not set up to optimise creativity and productivity

Workplace Insight

A study from Unispace claims that the majority of workplaces are not set up to enable staff to work to their best ability. The results of the poll of 3,000 office workers and 2,750 employers across Europe, found that despite 78 percent of businesses stating that their office has been set up to enable staff to be creative and productive, over half (52 percent) of employers noted that creativity and innovation among their employees increased while work from home guidance was in place.

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Shelter employees strike in pay dispute

Employee Benefits

Credit: ClimbWhenReady / Shutterstock.com. Staff employed by housing and homeless charity Shelter have commenced two weeks of strike action today (Monday 5 December) in a dispute over pay. More than 500 employees who are members of trade union Unite voted to strike following a 3% pay offer from the charity, which the union stated was lower than the inflation rate of 14.2%.

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15 Email Etiquette Rules That You Should Know

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is the difference between formal and informal emails? What is email etiquette, and why is it so important? 15 rules of email etiquette. Start emailing with confidence.

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.