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Maximize Operational Efficiency and Identify Gaps With Your Workforce Management System
Workforce management systems (WFM) modernize your time and attendance strategy and help increase your personnel’s overall efficiency. The benefits of using WFM software can be harnessed on an individual and company level to enable better insight into employee roles, productivity, and operations—and most importantly, the gaps in operations can be identified. Wise Consulting’s very…
Your 2020 COVID Payroll Year-End Checklist
With December comes the reality that many 2020-specific rules, relief and deferrals expire at the end of the month. This means vigilance is required of payroll professionals in reviewing and re-reviewing checklists and preparing for changes that literally happen overnight on December 31st. Ana Woods-Hill, CPP, Manager of Managed Payroll with Wise Consulting, prepared a…
Be Aware of FFCRA & CARES Limits
The COVID-response acts are meant to help employers and employees during an unusually difficult year. It is important for employers to understand both the opportunities and the limitations of these acts. As we roll into the fourth quarter of 2020, revisiting the limits might help with reconciliation, balancing and compliance. FFCRA Limits: Personal Sick…
The Role of Change Management in HCM Implementation
As with any complex project, managing expectations and communicating early and often are key. Change that feels sudden or forced can confuse workers and make them resistant or even suspicious of the new system, even when it offers features that can make their jobs easier. Step one in change management is putting together a strong…
You Could be Eligible for More COVID Credits Than you Think
At Wise, we are hearing from companies who either don’t think they can claim any payroll tax relief through the FFCRA and CARES Acts, or who are wondering if they should bother trying. Our tax team understands that it’s easy to feel overwhelmed because tracking payments and credits sounds like a lot of work on…
How COVID is Changing Payroll and Year-End
How bad will 2020 year-end be for people who are not preparing now? “It’s going to be bad,” predicts Cory Makle, FPC, Client Payroll Specialist with Wise. “Because of everything that’s going on, starting now is a good idea. If you’re not looking up until later, you are going to have problems. You definitely have…
Flexible Managed Payroll – Getting Help Without Breaking the Budget
While outsourcing an entire payroll process to experts works for many companies, what about when all you need is help with reporting, mass imports, garnishments, taxes or another payroll function? Particularly this year, with the various pandemic-response Acts, changes to forms and the vastly increased need for tracking, auditing and reconciliation, many companies are in…
Our New 941 Tracker Tool – Wise Innovation that Benefits You
You may know by now that the IRS has revised Form 941 in response to the FFCRA and CARES Acts that were put into effect earlier this year. Even employers with third-party tax support will have to take a more active role in validating and ensuring the accuracy of the data in this unprecedented year…
Planning for a Different Kind of Year-End Starts Now
While Wise consultants perform Year-End work for many clients each year, it is possible that no one has ever seen a year quite like 2020 is shaping up to be. Lynn Lauricella, CPP, a Compliance Manager with Wise Consulting, has her eye on the changes that will impact Year-End. To help clients prepare, Lynn has…
A Look at the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Securities (CARES) Act to provide relief to small businesses adversely impacted by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The plan to issue forgivable loans to businesses needing to make payroll in uncertain circumstances was intended to help businesses stay afloat while still paying…
FFCRA and CARES are In Effect…What’s Next?
These unprecedented times are calling for difficult business decisions. Companies of all sizes are performing critical analysis in order to maximize budgets to retain staff, attempt to take advantage of government relief, and maintain employee pay and benefits. Wise payroll managers have compiled a list of considerations to help you ask essential questions and examine…
Prepare for Fluctuating Garnishments
How is the Pandemic Affecting Garnishments? While the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on federally-funded student loans, at some point these wage garnishments, and the necessity of processing them, will resume. Additionally, with courts currently not in session, many standard proceedings that result in orders have ceased. When it’s business as usual, the…
Banishing the New HRIS Jitters: How Wise Can Help
It’s a fact: not all HRIS systems stay relevant or grow well with every organization. The average life span of an HRIS is around five years. Given all that an HRIS typically provides, which includes applicant tracking, onboarding, time and attendance, HR reporting and analytics, payroll, HR and benefits administration and learning management, most companies…
Setting Yourself up for a Smooth HRIS Launch
You’ve taken the plunge and committed to transforming your entire organization by purchasing a shiny new HRIS that has the power to increase employee satisfaction with self-service functionality, improve training and communication, enhance and automate payroll administration, access key analytics and produce incredible reports. Yet, if you don’t get the implementation of this new system…
The Benefits of Outsourcing Your Payroll Function
Among the many tasks that payroll professionals cite as frustrating, staying up to speed on ever-changing government tax regulations and the cost of correcting mistakes or paying penalties for errors are at the top of the list. Add to that the relentless and cyclical nature of payroll–it has to go out accurately and on time,…
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