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Managing payroll can be a time-consuming and complex task for businesses of all sizes. From ensuring accurate payments and compliance with tax regulations to managing benefits and deductions, payroll demands constant attention to detail. As companies grow, the workload increases, and the risk of...

In today's rapidly evolving business environment, maintaining compliance with employee pay equity laws is more critical than ever. The risks associated with non-compliance can extend far beyond legal repercussions, affecting a company's reputation, employee morale, and financial health.

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Recruiting and Talent Acquisition is a critical aspect of business operations, yet it often presents significant challenges. For many companies, the process of finding, attracting, and hiring the right talent can be both time-consuming and costly. As competition for top talent intensifies and the...

Why does my HR team have so many hoops my candidates have to jump through before I can hire them?

This is a question I have often heard from candidates and hiring managers during my career in talent acquisition. The proper and professional response it that it is an employer’s duty to...

How do I know whether a worker should be classified as an employee or an independent contractor?

The difference between an employee and independent contractor comes down to the amount of control and responsibility the employer has over them. While there are several advantages to hiring an...

Let's face it.

 Everyone hates HR.

We’re the killjoys. The disciplinarians. We demand absolute compliance and nitpick our way through every policy. We thrive in the messy and heavy parts of business, from tedious payroll to awkward terminations.

HR tends to deal with the messy and...

Pretend you’re at a job interview. You have a few lined up because you’re very good at what you do. The hiring manager silently writes a figure on a slip of paper and slides it to you from across the table, as if you're both in an old noir movie.

The paper simply reads: $70k 

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As a new business, you may be reluctant to outsource your HR responsibilities. Maybe you or other employees are handling HR just fine, and the cost of outsourcing doesn’t seem worth it. But as business starts to pick up, many professionals realize the value HR outsourcing can bring, from...

You’re considering your HR options. Maybe you need more time to focus on growth, or maybe you're looking for expert guidance on critical HR issues. Depending on the needs of your company, you can approach HR in four ways: 

• Bootstrap HR, delegating HR tasks to your non-HR...

For your employees’ first few months, they arrive all smiles. They're leaning in to listen at every meeting. They're overflowing with ideas and producing exceptional results. This is great. This is the kind of team that gives each other high fives on the way out the door.

And then . . .

As...