Payroll Webinar: Streamlining Payroll Operations and EfficienciesAscentis
Payroll is often the largest expense for a business and can be even more costly because of non-compliance, inefficient processes, lack of controls, and outdated technology. A missed deadline or incorrect tax filing can result in hefty fines and even jail time. Manual entry of HR/payroll records is time-consuming and prone to human error. Not having controls in place, whether you are a public or a private company, can increase the risk of fraud. Outdated technology can be complex and tends to add more administrative burden to HR/payroll teams, causing unwanted stress and frustration.
In this session we talk about the many ways that companies can stay compliant, streamline payroll operations, and optimize efficiency. We’ll share best practices and current trends to help improve your overall payroll operations and keep things running smoothly.
The bad guys are trying to steal your information! It seems there is another story on the news every day about large security breaches and the potential exposure of private, personal data. During this hour, Sleuthing Trainees will learn what the fraudsters are looking for, how they are gaining access to it and which employee populations are most at risk. This course, as well as the fortitude of the Sleuthing Graduates, have the potential to prevent millions in future payroll fraud losses.
Best Practices for Improving an Accounting System SilverRoad Solutions TSONDE
Best Practices for Improving an Accounting System
Facts You Should Know
Problems often can be traced back to four key areas:
1. How the system was set up
2. How well the processes were married to the technology
3. The type of training people received
4. How well “Best Practices” were applied to the end-to-end processes
Free Whitepapers - www.silverroad.net/finance
• Unlock the Hidden Value in your Accounting System
• Improving Inefficient Accounting Systems
Payroll Webinar: Streamlining Payroll Operations and EfficienciesAscentis
Payroll is often the largest expense for a business and can be even more costly because of non-compliance, inefficient processes, lack of controls, and outdated technology. A missed deadline or incorrect tax filing can result in hefty fines and even jail time. Manual entry of HR/payroll records is time-consuming and prone to human error. Not having controls in place, whether you are a public or a private company, can increase the risk of fraud. Outdated technology can be complex and tends to add more administrative burden to HR/payroll teams, causing unwanted stress and frustration.
In this session we talk about the many ways that companies can stay compliant, streamline payroll operations, and optimize efficiency. We’ll share best practices and current trends to help improve your overall payroll operations and keep things running smoothly.
The bad guys are trying to steal your information! It seems there is another story on the news every day about large security breaches and the potential exposure of private, personal data. During this hour, Sleuthing Trainees will learn what the fraudsters are looking for, how they are gaining access to it and which employee populations are most at risk. This course, as well as the fortitude of the Sleuthing Graduates, have the potential to prevent millions in future payroll fraud losses.
Best Practices for Improving an Accounting System SilverRoad Solutions TSONDE
Best Practices for Improving an Accounting System
Facts You Should Know
Problems often can be traced back to four key areas:
1. How the system was set up
2. How well the processes were married to the technology
3. The type of training people received
4. How well “Best Practices” were applied to the end-to-end processes
Free Whitepapers - www.silverroad.net/finance
• Unlock the Hidden Value in your Accounting System
• Improving Inefficient Accounting Systems
Payroll Webinar: Paying Overtime Under the FLSA Part 1Ascentis
This is the first of a two-part webinar that will help you better understand the sometimes confounding requirements and procedures involved in overtime calculation. Calculating overtime pay for nonexempt employees sounds so simple. Common folk lore says you simply count the hours the employee works beyond 40 hours a week. Then you multiply that by 1.5 times their hourly pay rate and you’re done right? Not so fast! The truth is that overtime rules and the mathematics required to arrive at the correct calculation can be extremely tricky.
Penalties for overtime violations can be severe with the possibility of fines, imprisonment or both! Add civil suits to the mix and the results can be devastating to any business no matter how large or small! And just to make it interesting, most states use the same definition to calculate overtime as the FLSA does. So one error can earn you double the penalties.
Top Seven Benefits of an Automated Time and Attendance SystemSage HRMS
Increasing information accuracy and reliability are the two paramount reasons a time and attendance system is installed in any organization. Because an organization’s workforce is often its largest expense, impacting production and profitability, inaccurate timekeeping can lead to costly regulatory compliance missteps, among other pitfalls.
On the other hand, it should be noted that employees also represent an organization’s biggest asset with regard to growth and profitability. Thus, maintaining accurate and reliable time and attendance information makes labor management a whole lot more manageable.
At surface level, the immediate time-saving, as well as bottom-line saving, benefits of time and attendance automation are easy to highlight. However, without accurate and reliable time data captured from employees and passed to other parts of the human resources and payroll system, error-prone breakdowns are likely to occur. These can result in employees’ not being paid properly, noncompliance, decreased employee morale, and turnover.
An appropriate time and attendance system that meets your organization’s needs can help to eliminate and even prevent many, if not most, of the negative aspects of inaccurate and unreliable timekeeping.
The following will outline the top benefits of a time and attendance system and the positive effect they can have on your organization.
Payroll Webinar: Understanding the 2020 W4Ascentis
As we approach a historic election in November, most experts agree: as a nation, we are at unprecedented levels of political division in this country. Given the recent activism of the executive and judicial branches of the federal government (if not the legislative), and increased levels of state and local activity as well, we in HR mostly “hunker down” and wait for the next mandate to roll out, wondering what impacts it will have on our HCM technology platforms. From minimum wage changes to enhanced EEO reporting, from gender pay equity issues making top news headlines to the question of where the Affordable Care Act will be a year from now, HR professionals need as much information as they can garner to be ready for potential change.
In this session, we’ll explore what impact pending legislation (of both the “blue” and “red” variety), recent court cases, and a possible change in control of the Presidency and/or the Senate could have on our professional lives as HR compliance officers.
Payroll Webinar: What You Need to Know about Benefits TaxationAscentis
You will learn the payroll department’s responsibilities pertaining to the set-up of employee benefits, including retirement, health and welfare and other benefits. You will learn what payroll department staff need to know when tax withholding needs to occur and how to communicate the tax withholding effectively to employees. Learn how to be proactive on employee taxation issues with management and prevent surprises.
Payroll Webinar: The A to Z of Garnishments Part 3Ascentis
We have discussed the legal aspect, now we need to turn our attention to the best practices for processing the garnishments within the payroll department. For example, how and when should payroll communicate with the employee concerning a garnishment? Should tracking reports be set up to ensure proper deductions and payments? These are just a few of the questions we will answer during this webinar.
Now that we have discussed the rules and regulations of Garnishments it is time to get down and do the math. In this webinar we will apply all that we learned in parts 1 and 2 by reviewing all types of examples of calculating garnishments. This will include how to prorate when an employee has two or more child support withholding orders and not enough disposable income to cover both; the proper calculations for a federal tax levy; what to do if the employee has a creditor garnishment and a child support withholding order and much, much more.
Payroll Webinar: Paying Overtime Under the FLSA: Part 2Ascentis
This is the second of a two-part webinar that will help you better understand the requirements and procedures involved in overtime calculation. Calculating overtime pay for nonexempt employees sounds so simple. But not so fast. The truth is that overtime rules and the mathematics required to arrive at the correct calculation can be extremely tricky. Our speaker will share her expertise and best practices for managing these calculations.
Penalties for overtime violations can be severe with the possibility of fines, imprisonment or both! Add civil suits to the mix and the results can be devastating to any business, no matter how large or small. Just to keep it interesting, most states use the same definition to calculate overtime as the FLSA does. So, even one, single error can earn you double the penalties.
HR Webinar: Benefits Update: 2020 Open Enrollment ConsiderationsAscentis
As we enter the busy Open Enrollment season for 2020 coverage, as a professional community, we face more uncertainty than in any year in recent memory. While the ACA still governs the design and administration rules of most healthcare plans, exceptions are now available for some employers. The individual mandate is effectively repealed, impacting both employee plan selection behavior and ACA reporting requirements. The relatively simple and straightforward subject of Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs) has morphed into a complex assortment of financial vehicles (QSEHRAs, ICHRAs, EBHRAs). And as Wellness Programs are gaining near-universal popularity, some big-name employers are in the news for toeing the line of the design rules for these plans. In this session, we'll review some key and late-breaking developments benefits professionals need to know!
Use this payroll software checklist to organize the features you need in a new payroll software system. Fill in the blanks and present this checklist to the vendors you contact. Or simply use it to organize your needs, so your search for payroll software goes much more smoothly.
Legal tips and traps in compliance with wage and hour laws, who are exempt from minimum wage and overtime, how overtime is calculated, how regular hourly rate is calculated, and independent contractor issues
Payroll Webinar: Paying Overtime Under the FLSA Part 1Ascentis
This is the first of a two-part webinar that will help you better understand the sometimes confounding requirements and procedures involved in overtime calculation. Calculating overtime pay for nonexempt employees sounds so simple. Common folk lore says you simply count the hours the employee works beyond 40 hours a week. Then you multiply that by 1.5 times their hourly pay rate and you’re done right? Not so fast! The truth is that overtime rules and the mathematics required to arrive at the correct calculation can be extremely tricky.
Penalties for overtime violations can be severe with the possibility of fines, imprisonment or both! Add civil suits to the mix and the results can be devastating to any business no matter how large or small! And just to make it interesting, most states use the same definition to calculate overtime as the FLSA does. So one error can earn you double the penalties.
Top Seven Benefits of an Automated Time and Attendance SystemSage HRMS
Increasing information accuracy and reliability are the two paramount reasons a time and attendance system is installed in any organization. Because an organization’s workforce is often its largest expense, impacting production and profitability, inaccurate timekeeping can lead to costly regulatory compliance missteps, among other pitfalls.
On the other hand, it should be noted that employees also represent an organization’s biggest asset with regard to growth and profitability. Thus, maintaining accurate and reliable time and attendance information makes labor management a whole lot more manageable.
At surface level, the immediate time-saving, as well as bottom-line saving, benefits of time and attendance automation are easy to highlight. However, without accurate and reliable time data captured from employees and passed to other parts of the human resources and payroll system, error-prone breakdowns are likely to occur. These can result in employees’ not being paid properly, noncompliance, decreased employee morale, and turnover.
An appropriate time and attendance system that meets your organization’s needs can help to eliminate and even prevent many, if not most, of the negative aspects of inaccurate and unreliable timekeeping.
The following will outline the top benefits of a time and attendance system and the positive effect they can have on your organization.
Payroll Webinar: Understanding the 2020 W4Ascentis
As we approach a historic election in November, most experts agree: as a nation, we are at unprecedented levels of political division in this country. Given the recent activism of the executive and judicial branches of the federal government (if not the legislative), and increased levels of state and local activity as well, we in HR mostly “hunker down” and wait for the next mandate to roll out, wondering what impacts it will have on our HCM technology platforms. From minimum wage changes to enhanced EEO reporting, from gender pay equity issues making top news headlines to the question of where the Affordable Care Act will be a year from now, HR professionals need as much information as they can garner to be ready for potential change.
In this session, we’ll explore what impact pending legislation (of both the “blue” and “red” variety), recent court cases, and a possible change in control of the Presidency and/or the Senate could have on our professional lives as HR compliance officers.
Payroll Webinar: What You Need to Know about Benefits TaxationAscentis
You will learn the payroll department’s responsibilities pertaining to the set-up of employee benefits, including retirement, health and welfare and other benefits. You will learn what payroll department staff need to know when tax withholding needs to occur and how to communicate the tax withholding effectively to employees. Learn how to be proactive on employee taxation issues with management and prevent surprises.
Payroll Webinar: The A to Z of Garnishments Part 3Ascentis
We have discussed the legal aspect, now we need to turn our attention to the best practices for processing the garnishments within the payroll department. For example, how and when should payroll communicate with the employee concerning a garnishment? Should tracking reports be set up to ensure proper deductions and payments? These are just a few of the questions we will answer during this webinar.
Now that we have discussed the rules and regulations of Garnishments it is time to get down and do the math. In this webinar we will apply all that we learned in parts 1 and 2 by reviewing all types of examples of calculating garnishments. This will include how to prorate when an employee has two or more child support withholding orders and not enough disposable income to cover both; the proper calculations for a federal tax levy; what to do if the employee has a creditor garnishment and a child support withholding order and much, much more.
Payroll Webinar: Paying Overtime Under the FLSA: Part 2Ascentis
This is the second of a two-part webinar that will help you better understand the requirements and procedures involved in overtime calculation. Calculating overtime pay for nonexempt employees sounds so simple. But not so fast. The truth is that overtime rules and the mathematics required to arrive at the correct calculation can be extremely tricky. Our speaker will share her expertise and best practices for managing these calculations.
Penalties for overtime violations can be severe with the possibility of fines, imprisonment or both! Add civil suits to the mix and the results can be devastating to any business, no matter how large or small. Just to keep it interesting, most states use the same definition to calculate overtime as the FLSA does. So, even one, single error can earn you double the penalties.
HR Webinar: Benefits Update: 2020 Open Enrollment ConsiderationsAscentis
As we enter the busy Open Enrollment season for 2020 coverage, as a professional community, we face more uncertainty than in any year in recent memory. While the ACA still governs the design and administration rules of most healthcare plans, exceptions are now available for some employers. The individual mandate is effectively repealed, impacting both employee plan selection behavior and ACA reporting requirements. The relatively simple and straightforward subject of Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs) has morphed into a complex assortment of financial vehicles (QSEHRAs, ICHRAs, EBHRAs). And as Wellness Programs are gaining near-universal popularity, some big-name employers are in the news for toeing the line of the design rules for these plans. In this session, we'll review some key and late-breaking developments benefits professionals need to know!
Use this payroll software checklist to organize the features you need in a new payroll software system. Fill in the blanks and present this checklist to the vendors you contact. Or simply use it to organize your needs, so your search for payroll software goes much more smoothly.
Legal tips and traps in compliance with wage and hour laws, who are exempt from minimum wage and overtime, how overtime is calculated, how regular hourly rate is calculated, and independent contractor issues
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In this presentation, Mykkah Herner, a member of PayScale's compensation consulting team, will show you how to build ranges from a market-centered midpoint, and how to use market data to update or create market based pay ranges.
You’ll learn how to identify appropriate sources of market data, select an appropriate “market set” for utilizing market data, choose benchmark positions and slot non-benchmark positions into your pay structure, and create a strategy for dealing with “hot” jobs that fall outside of internal ranges.
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Payroll management or administration is one of the most critical processes in any business, regardless of size, business model or industry.
It is one of the most important but time-consuming, cumbersome administrative tasks that every organisation performs daily.
While it doesn’t generate revenues for businesses directly, it is still an important activity that every business need to carry out accurately - as such, ensuring that your process is smooth and efficient must be a priority.
As a leader, you’re responsible for ensuring your organisation’s payroll management process is streamlined to ensure you save time and money. The question then is, how much do you understand and apply the best method to manage your payroll to legally keep your organisation compliant and ensure employee satisfaction?
In this deck, you will learn the fundamentals of payroll management and how it can benefit your business. You will also learn:
• The most important reasons you need to manage your payroll properly
• The top three (3) ways to manage your payroll
• The best payroll management solution that ensures your organisation remains legally compliant
• The most effective payroll management tips.
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Every business or company regardless of size needs to have a payroll system in place. Among other things, it entails managing employee salaries, benefits, and taxes. Payroll management, however, may be a time-consuming and challenging chore for organizations that diverts attention from other crucial business operations. Payroll requirements can cause businesses problems with their cash flow, costs, and compliance. Thus, Outsourcing payroll help in this situation.
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Keeping track of employee time and attendance is a huge burden for employers. Are they at work? Are they on vacation? Did they clock in on time? Are they taking a long lunch? These are all must-know items, but often difficult to determine.
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Axolon Property management software Oman offers significant benefits that can positively impact an organization's efficiency, compliance, costs, and employee satisfaction. By automating the payroll process, businesses can save time, reduce errors, ensure compliance, and allocate resources more efficiently.
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Payroll management software UAE offers many benefits to businesses looking to capitalize on their operations. By automating payroll processes, ensuring accuracy, saving time and costs, improving efficiency, and improving employee satisfaction, your business can focus on the best solutions.
2. Overview
Human Capital Management (HCM) is the set of processes related to your
organization’s payroll, HR, time & labor, scheduling, and other administrative
needs.
Through automating HCM functions, organizations can see significant
savings in the form of time, money, litigation exposure, and overall
aggravation.
Specific areas of savings include:
• Payroll Processing
• Payroll Inflation
• Employee Absenteeism
• Unnecessary Overtime
• FMLA and Leave Time
• Wage and Hour Compliance Exposure
• Employee Self Service
• HR Productivity
• Employee Engagement and Satisfaction
HCM in the
Cloud
4. Manual adjustments
Manual tax, compensation and
deduction adjustments
Manual calculations of
retroactive payments
Multiple sources of
information
Manual
Manual process that take
hours/days to perform
Manual off cycle checks
Payroll Hours Spent Processing
5. Streamline Payroll Processing
Too many hours are spent each payroll period on collection of
accurate time worked, approving employee time, and applying
pay rules accurately. Payroll processing challenges include:
correcting payroll errors, not having a single source of data, and
lack of visibility and access to accurate real time payroll data.
Did you know:
• 35% of the average HR department’s time is spent on payroll
alone (Sage)
• 10.5% of payroll processing time is consumed in error
correction, even though the average error rate is only 3%
(APA & KPMG)
• It takes 5 to 6 minutes to total and audit each manual time
card (APA)
This is costing you…
• For every 25 full time employees (FTE’s), you are likely
expending 100 wasted person hours per year on manual
payroll processing and exception handling. This totals to an
annual expense of over $3,250 per 25 FTE’s.
6. Streamline Payroll Processing
PAID TOO MUCHPAID TOO LITTLE
Sources
• Paper based timecards
• Manual calculations
• Manual keying of data
• Complex pay rules
7. Streamline Payroll Processing
How Automation Can Help:
• Integrate your HR, timekeeping, and payroll systems into one
database to reduce data entry and errors
• Implement and manage a configurable workflow ensuring that
schedules are effectively approved and posted with easy
employee access
• Scheduled alerts to pick up errors
• Eliminate duplicate data entry
• Add complimentary apps
8. Reduce Payroll Inflation
6 Minutes Paid,
Not Worked5:09 PUNCH PUNCH ROUNDED
TO 5:15
GAMING
THE CLOCK
Time Paid,
Not Worked
ONE EMPLOYEE PUNCHES FOR TWO EMPLOYEES
BUDDY
PUNCHING
20 Minutes Paid,
Not Worked
RECORDED 5:00 HONOR SYSTEM ACTUAL 4:40
FALSIFYING
TIMECARDS
9. Reduce Payroll Inflation
Honest time reporting errors, incorrect pay rates, missed punches, and meal breaks aren’t
always captured correctly when manually entered. Relying on manual processes to round
employee time to the next hour costs businesses money and increases compliance risk.
Did you know:
• A 1% to 8% clerical error rate is realized when organizations manage/track total hours
manually (APA)
• Employee reporting issues cost $1085 on average per employee per year (APA)
• The average time employees incorrectly reported is 4.5 hours/week – the equivalent of 6
weeks of vacation (Robert Half and Associates)
This is costing you…
• Applying the average 2.0% error rate for manual processes, you are likely overpaying by
almost $10,000 each year for every 25 FTE’s with a total annual hourly payroll of $500,000.
Total Annual Hourly Payroll Manual Calculation & Input
Error Percent
Calculated Value
$500,000 2.0% $10,000
10. Reduce Payroll Inflation
How Automation Can Help:
• Real time visibility to manage exceptions and trends
• Auto alerts
• Accurately and effectively collect time data
• Pre-established rounding rules
• Automatic transfer of correct time calculations to payroll
12. Manage Absenteeism
Surveys Says: Employee Absence Affects Productivity
ADDS TO
WORKLOAD
DISRUPTS THE
WORK
OF OTHERS
INCREASES
STRESS
HURTS
MORALE
REDUCES
QUALITY OF
WORK OUTPUT
ADDS
MANDATORY
OVERTIME
REFLECTS
BADLY ON ALL
IN UNIT
Survey on The Total Financial Impact of Employee Absences by Mercer, 2010
90% 85% 82% 69% 64% 52% 36%
13. Manage Absenteeism
Employee absences and leave, whether planned, incidental, or extended, carries costs, risks,
and productivity hits to your organization. It also negatively impacts morale and employee
engagement.
Did you know:
• Employees with supervisory responsibility spent an average of 3.3 hours per week dealing
with absences (SHRM)
• The average productivity loss associated with an unplanned absence was 31.6% (SHRM)
• The total cost of absenteeism as a percentage of payroll was between 36.3% and 38.3%
(SHRM)
This is costing you…
• Absenteeism on the business can cost a typical organization 165 person hours ($5,270)
per manager/supervisor each year, and total over $29,400 annually for every 25 FTE’s.
14. Manage Absenteeism
How Automation Can Help:
• See who is available in real time to fill absences
• Set workflows to automatically record employee absences
• Automatically notify managers when employees exceed
established point thresholds
• Easily confirm each employee’s eligibility for paid/unpaid leave
based on user-defined criteria
15. Reduce Unnecessary Overtime
Without the proper visibility to accurate employee time and attendance data and schedules,
companies tend to overcompensate, overstaff, and overpay. As a result, they pay more in
overtime than they need to.
Did you know:
• Overtime accounts for 6.3% of a typical payroll (SHRM)
• One of the largest contributing factors to increased labor costs is overtime accrual
(Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• Top performers have <4% of overtime costs unplanned or unbudgeted compared to the
average (Aberdeen)
This is costing you…
• For every 25 FTE’s, the average company pays over $77,500 in annual overtime.
16. Reduce Unnecessary Overtime
How Automation Can Help:
• Real-time visibility into employees’ hours
• Building of accurate schedules
• Automated alerts to notify you when schedules exceed budget
limits
17. Manage FMLA/Leave
Employers who do not fully understand and manage complex notice and leave requirements
of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) risk potential exposure to litigation and penalties.
This is made more difficult as you need to track rules for eligibility and assure full
understanding of the rules by managers
Did you know:
• 13% of all employees took leave for a qualifying FMLA reason (ABT Associates)
• It takes employers an average of 2.5 hours to manage a single FMLA case (SHRM)
This is costing you…
• According to the Society for Human Resource Management, the average cost to defend a
FMLA lawsuit is $78,000, regardless of outcome (U.S. Department of Labor Wage and
Human Resource Division 2006)
• Employees who successfully sued for wrongful termination based on FMLA absence
received on average between $87,500 - $450,000 in damages (EEOC)
18. Leave Inflation
Anytime PTO isn't properly deducted
Extra 10 Hours
PTO a Year
HOURLY
EMPLOYEES
PAPER REQUESTS NOT MAKING IT TO PAYROLL
Extra 10 Hours
PTO a Year
SALARIED
EMPLOYEES
SELF REPORTING HONOR SYSTEM
19. Manage FMLA/Leave
How Automation Can Help:
• Automate and enforce:
– Time off and accruals rules
– Federal, state, and company leave requirements
– Organizational attendance policies
• Automate eligibility determination such as vacation, sick time,
and FMLA
• Receive automatic alerts to flag action items
20. Reduce Wage and Hour Compliance
Exposure
Investigations, litigations, and wage recovery focused on wage and hour violations are at an
all-time high and showing no signs of decreasing. Proposed changes to overtime regulations
and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have added new layers of complexity. It’s imperative that
organizations take, proactive steps to develop compliance strategies to protect themselves.
Did you know:
• Since the beginning of 2009, the Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division has
aided 1.5 million workers, with $1.3 billion in back wages (DOL)
• Since 2004, federal FLSA cases have more than doubled from 3,426 cases to 8,066 cases
(Seyfarth Shaw LLP)
• Smaller to medium businesses are 72% more likely than enterprise businesses to indicate
that maintaining compliance is a key driver in their workforce management efforts
(Aberdeen)
This is costing you…
• According to DOL statistics, the average issue can cost a typical organization $30,000 in
back wages, but easily cost three times this amount in internal handling/mitigation costs,
legal fees, and additional damages (DOL)
21. Reduce Wage and Hour Compliance
Exposure
How Automation Can Help:
• Track part-time vs. full-time hours
• Minimize overtime
• Proactively plan schedules
• Streamline benefits enrollment
• Centralizes wage and hour policy administration
• Establishes local policy enforcement
• Creates detailed audit records
23. Employee Self Service
Handling employee questions about HR and payroll can be time consuming and costly. When
it comes to handling employee questions and issues such as updating employee
information, withholdings, overtime, time off balances, benefits, shift swapping, and
discrepancies with paychecks, it can create major frustrations and time lost.
Did you know:
• The average cost of resolving any kind of payroll inquiry is $19.67 per inquiry (The Bureau
of National Affairs (BNA))
• On average, over 50% of an HR department’s time is spent processing employee
information and answering questions (Center of Effective Organizations)
This is costing you…
• A typical HR or payroll team spends almost 400 hours a year handling employee questions
regarding HR and payroll. This wastes over $12,000 per team member each year, and an
average of over $5,750 for every 25 FTE’s.
25. Employee Self Service
How Automation Can Help:
• Request time off
• View schedules, timecards, and accrued time off balances
• Review, approve, annotate, and submit timesheets
• Access profiles, schedules, pay statements, time off balances,
and more
• Approve time worked and time off requests
• Open Enrollment
26. Enhance HR Productivity
It is critical for HR departments to improve the employee experience by streamlining
processes from onboarding to off boarding. It is costly enough to hire and train new
employees, let alone using manual processes.
Did you know:
• Smaller organizations reported cost-per-hire of $3,078 (SHRM)
• Direct replacement costs of an employee can reach as high as 50% - 60% of their annual
salary, and total costs associated with turnover ranging from 90% - 200% of their annual
salary (SHRM)
• The average voluntary turnover rate is 15%, but can be much higher in certain industries
like food and beverage, retail, agriculture, transportation, and warehousing (SHRM)
This is costing you…
• For every 25 FTE’s it’s not uncommon to lose over $96,875 each year on turnover.
28. Enhance HR Productivity
How Automation Can Help:
• Centralize all employee information
• Streamline recruiting, hiring, and onboarding
• Simplify benefit plan setup
• Automate administrative tasks
• Deliver real-time data access
• Manage compensation
29. Improve Employee Engagement and
Satisfaction
Engagement and well-being are keys to employee performance. Employee engagement is
critical to managing labor costs and improving productivity as well as meeting your business
objectives. Today’s employee engagement challenge is complicated by the fact that there are
five generations coexisting in the workforce
Did you know that:
• 51% of U.S. employees are watching the job market or actively looking for a job (Gallup)
• An actively disengaged employee (40-49 years of age) costs $236.20 due to unhealthy
days (2.17 days per month) – an 85% increase compared to an engaged worker (Gallup)
• Turnover costs are often estimated to be 100% - 300% of the replaced employee’s base
salary (SHRM)
This is costing you…
• Recruiting and training costs
• Increased staffing
• Loss of sales
• Replacement workers
30. Improve Employee Engagement and
Satisfaction
How Automation Can Help:
• Eliminating manual tasks, allowing leaders time to coach their
team
• Standardizing and centralizing policies
• Providing a clear career path
• Creating freedom with self-service
• Putting employees in a position to win while ensuring fairness
31. Sources
Reduce Payroll Inflation
• APA – http://www.thewfcgroup.com/2014/01/06/buddy-punching-costs/
• Robert Half and Associates – http://www.deputy.com/blog/time-theft/
Manage Absenteeism
• The Total Financial Impact of Employee Absences in Europe (SHRM 2014)
Streamline Payroll Processing
• Take Control of Your Payroll Process – APA Trendline Survey, December 2014
• Sage – HR Technology Tools: What You May Be Missing
Employees Self Service
• The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.; Payroll Benchmark Report, Payroll Benchmarks and Analysis 2011
• Lawler, E. & Noudreau, J. (2010) Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California.
Retrieved from: http://ceo.usc.edu/news/
Manage FMLA/Leave
• Family and Medical Leave in 2012: Executive Summary – ABT Associates –
http://www.dol.gov/asp/evaluation/fmla/FMLA-2012-Executive-Summary.pdf
• SHRM –
https://www.shrm.org/Research/SurveyFindings/Documents/FMLA%20And%20Its%20Impact%20On%20Organiz
ations%20Survey%20Report.pdf
• HRI World – http://www.hriworld.com/FMLA.aspx
32. Sources
Improve HR Productivity
• Retaining Talent – A Guide to Analyzing and Managing Employee Turnover – SHRM –
http://www.shrm.org/about/foundation/research/documents/retaining%20talent-%20final.pdf
• Annual Voluntary Turnover Rate – SHRM –
http://www.shrm.org/research/articles/pages/metricofthemonthannualvoluntaryturnoverrate.aspx
Reduce Unnecessary Overtime
• Productivity: Managing and Measuring a Workforce – Aberdeen Group, Jan 2015
• The Total Financial Impact of Employee Absences in Europe – SHRM, 2014
• Are Your Labor Costs Out of Control? When I Work, March 2013
Improve Employee Engagement and Satisfaction
• Gallup Workforce Study on employees looking for new work - http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/186602/job-
hopping-employees-looking.aspx?g_source=EMPLOYEE_ENGAGEMENT&g_medium=topic&g_campaign=tiles
• Gallup study on engagement costs - http://www.gallup.com/poll/187865/engaged-employees-less-likely-health-
problems.aspx?g_source=EMPLOYEE_ENGAGEMENT&g_medium=topic&g_campaign=tiles
• Measuring and Mitigating the Cost of Employee Turnover – SHRM –
https://www.shrm.org/multimedia/webcasts/Documents/12ruyle_2.pdf
Reduce Wage and Hour Compliance Exposure
• DOL, Working for a Fair Day’s Pay, found at http://www.dol.gov/whd/statistics/.
• Seyfarth Shaw LLP, FLSA Cases in Federal Court (2013), http://www.wagehourlitigation.com/files/2013/07/FLSA-
Cases-Filed-2013.pdf.
33. Sources
• Seyfarth Shaw LLP, 11th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report: 2015 Edition, at 6.
• Complex Labor Regulations Raise the Stakes for Organizations – FLSA cases on the rise; focus on risk
management; strategic action required
Editor's Notes
Processing payroll can have a wide margin of cost per payment due to error correction, manual off-cycle tax calculations, and data validation issues. A 2008 APA* benchmark survey showed that top performers process payroll at a 46% lower cost per employee and a 32% lower cost per payment than other employers.
Having timekeeping in a separate system to payroll, encourages payroll corrections being performed during in the payroll batch, which breaks the reconciliation link between what was paid and what was worked. This causes undue delays in investigation due to employee payment complaints. Mid-pay period changes usually require manual calculations which increase the opportunity for error.
Calculation/Input Errors– where employees are paid too little or too much in a pay period. That magnitude of these errors typically fall on a curve. (click) There are more smaller errors ($20-$100), either in favor of the company or employee, and fewer bigger errors (a whole paycheck for example)
Large overpayments are typically caught by accounting (click)
Any underpayment, large or small is almost always caught by the employee (click) .
This leaves small overpayments– the employee either chooses not to report the overpayment or overlooks it (click) . This is where payroll error costs you money – lots of small overpayments that are never caught.
Calculation/Input error has many sources. Any time there are paper timecards, there can be handwriting issues (thinking a 3 is an 8) input errors (typing a 0 instead of a 9) and calculation errors (adding incorrectly)
Ideally a picture of their messiest timecard can be put in this slide to illustrate how hard it is to interpret handwriting
Calculation/Input Errors– where employees are paid too little or too much in a pay period. That magnitude of these errors typically fall on a curve. (click) There are more smaller errors ($20-$100), either in favor of the company or employee, and fewer bigger errors (a whole paycheck for example)
Large overpayments are typically caught by accounting (click)
Any underpayment, large or small is almost always caught by the employee (click) .
This leaves small overpayments– the employee either chooses not to report the overpayment or overlooks it (click) . This is where payroll error costs you money – lots of small overpayments that are never caught.
Calculation/Input error has many sources. Any time there are paper timecards, there can be handwriting issues (thinking a 3 is an 8) input errors (typing a 0 instead of a 9) and calculation errors (adding incorrectly)
Ideally a picture of their messiest timecard can be put in this slide to illustrate how hard it is to interpret handwriting
What is payroll inflation?
Anytime anyone is gaming or cheating the system, ie time paid, not worked. Gaming the clock with rounding rules, buddy punching and falsifying written time cards are the most common.
<more than likely a company wont have all three of these gaming issues, delete/modify the one(s) not relevant, but keep biometrics to show what can happen if they buy Intouches without biometrics>
Small amounts of creep lead to significant amount of dollars
In addition to the significant expense associated with employee absence, your organizations take a major productivity hit when employees don’t come to work. Your managers productivity is impacted as well as the productivity of your front-line staff.
Unplanned absences results in the highest loss of productivity, averaging 20% per day, according the to 2010 Mercer survey.
The pain of absence is significant and extends to others in the organizations…How else? In what other ways do absences hurt a company?
consider these impacts, when employees don’t come to work:
Adds to workload of others
Disrupts the work of others
Increases stress
Hurts morale
Reduces quality of work output
Adds mandatory overtime
Reflects badly on all in the work unit
Preventing these additional impacts is just one more reason why your need to effectively manage absence effectively
Employee-requested data updates (such as address changes, direct deposit changes, etc.) can be a largely inefficient process for most employers. Verbal requests can be misinterpreted and paper forms can get lost/misplaced by management and HR. Also, even when requests are correctly routed, without visibility to what is currently on file, the employees may not know that an update is needed. Many employee requests are also informational only, and may not require HR involvement. HR and Payroll departments can spend hours, responding to information queries, such as PTO Balances, requesting copies of checks, insurance inquiries, etc.
Manager-requested changes (such as Personnel Action Forms) and paper file reporting requests (performance goals, forms, emergency contacts, etc.) waste hours of time across an organization. And, like employee requests, paper forms may not make it to their required destination, leaving employee files incomplete.
HR professionals spent an average of 12 minutes per request, providing or updating information to employees. On average an employee has 4.8 requests per year.
Most standard HR transactions need various points of entry, as the data can be held in many different software packages, databases, or even on manual forms. Even when systems and processes are in place, the need for several levels of approval and the proper routing of information can lead to many areas of inefficiency. Double-entry, unnecessary verification, and manual form signatures are the most common areas of lost time.
Without Manager Self Service, HR departments are reliant on paper, or email forms, the storage of which can add up over the years. Paper storage, or even electronic document storage (if in separate systems) prevents quick access to data and therefore, never provides a complete repository of employee information.