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SMB Matters
It's the Season of Joy and Here Is Why We Are Happy to Share It With You
The holidays give us at TriNet a time to slow down just a tad to reflect as one year comes to an end, plan for the year ahead and stop to think about all that we are thankful for. We truly love what we do, which is helping our clients and their businesses succeed. So, with this “attitude of gratitude” in mind, we stopped to ask some of our colleagues for their thoughts on what they truly love about working with TriNet clients and why they are thankful for the opportunity to do so.
November 28, 2017 ・6 mins read
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HR News
Medical Prices May Be Increasing in 2018. Here Is Why and What Your Business Can Do to Prepare
It’s time to start thinking about open enrollment and benefits renewal. It can be frustrating for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to have to budget for benefits when each year they see significant increases that outpace inflation. So what’s an SMB owner or HR professional to do? This post takes a deeper look at what the PwC annual report identifies as the three inflators and two deflators that are driving health spending increases for 2018. Then I’ll discuss what employers can do to prepare for these increases.
October 17, 2017 ・7 mins read
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Culture
Collaborative Culture or Competitive: Which Is Best for Business?
Find out why a collaborative culture might give your business and its employees better odds for success than a traditional competitive culture.
October 16, 2017 ・8 mins read
Read more
Compliance
Understanding Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) & How to Tackle Making Changes
An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to identify a business entity - learn more about yours.
October 6, 2017 ・5 mins read
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HR News
5 Steps Employers of Immigrant Workers Can Take to Prepare for a Potential Increase in I-9 Investigations
We expect that ICE will be conducting record numbers of worksite enforcement investigations, criminal prosecutions and audits for inspections and administrative fees. These ICE audits and investigations can result in employers having to settle technical violations for administrative shortcomings, even if they do not have an undocumented worker on payroll.
September 21, 2017 ・13 mins read
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HR News
Frequently Asked Questions about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and What SMBs Need to Know to Prepare
On September 5, 2017, U.S. Secretary General Jeff Sessions announced an end to the DACA program. Under this directive, Acting U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine C. Duke has rescinded the 2012 memorandum. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has initiated a phase out of the DACA program by providing a limited six-month window to adjudicate certain pending and renewal DACA cases. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is no longer accepting initial (first time) DACA applications.
TriNet will be monitoring changes to the DACA program and how they affect small and midsize businesses (SMBs). In the meantime, here are answers to common questions about how the DACA rescission announcement will affect SMBs and their current employees.
September 12, 2017 ・8 mins read
Read more
Culture
Are You Marketing to Your Employees? 5 Ways to Brand Your Organization to Your Most Important Audience
Branding doesn’t just encompass your sales and marketing efforts.To be successful, branding needs to involve all your employees, no matter what their role in your organization. Making sure your employees understand and, more importantly, believe in your brand can help business overall. Check out these strategies for using branding to ensure your team is buying what you’re selling.
September 5, 2017 ・5 mins read
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HR Essentials
How Geralex Janitorial Services Cleaned Up Their Business
Recently, I chatted with Gerry Alvarado, Vice President and Co-founder of Geralex Janitorial Services, a company that was started more than 14 years ago in the Chicago area to provide environmentally friendly janitorial services to businesses. Gerry spoke about the explosive growth that nearly took his company down, the challenges he faced and the lessons he learned.
August 22, 2017 ・5 mins read
Read more
Employee Assistance Programs Don’t Just Benefit Employees. Here’s Why They’re Good for Employers Too
an EAP is an employer-paid service that provides confidential counseling to eligible employees and their family members, 24 hours a day. Even the smallest employers should consider the benefit that EAP programs can have on not just their employees’ overall well-being but the well-being of their company.
August 3, 2017 ・5 mins read
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HR Essentials
3 Best Business Practices for Life Sciences SMBs from a Leading Biotech Entrepreneur
Business leaders in the life sciences industry know all too well they face unique challenges. In this highly innovative and rapidly evolving field they must move quickly to remain relevant. Dr. Craig Shimasaki, president & CEO of Moleculera Labs and a successful founder of three biotech companies, shares the three key drivers for those in the life sciences industry:
July 25, 2017 ・4 mins read
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Benefits
Voluntary Benefits: A Winning Strategy for Employers and Employees
As benefits products become more standardized, employers are looking for ways to make themselves stand out from the pack in order to compete for top talent. Voluntary benefits are a great way to help accomplish this goal.
November 15, 2017 ・7 mins read
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Diversity & Inclusion
Not Just Another Great Hire: Even More Reasons You Should Be Recruiting Veterans to Your Business
Emphasizing the hiring of veterans has been a trend in business for several years and TriNet stands proudly among these companies. It is especially crucial for the U.S. economy that organizations embrace service men and women in the civilian job market as roughly 250,000 service members a year will leave the military over the next five years. There are many incentives to businesses—incentives many don’t know about—for hiring veterans.
November 8, 2017 ・5 mins read
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Diversity & Inclusion
Getting to Fair: The Gender Pay Gap in the Technology Industry
The tech industry, still largely controlled by white males, continues to be the subject of scrutiny when it comes to diversity in the workplace. The gender pay gap remains an issue, although how seriously it’s taken depends on which article or workplace survey you read. Businesses that fail to address equality concerns could face significant financial liability--not to mention the public relations disaster that normally accompanies revelations about such failures. In this post, we focus on the gender pay gap. We discuss relevant laws and offer some tips on how to reduce the gender pay gap in your tech business.
November 1, 2017 ・5 mins read
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Diversity & Inclusion
4 HR Strategies for Optimizing a Multigenerational Workforce in the Hospitality Industry
It is a common misconception that the hospitality industry is made up of mostly young workers. It is not uncommon for restaurants, hotels, resorts and other hospitality businesses to have four or more generations of employees working alongside one another. Here are four specific strategies hospitality employers should implement to get the most from the full generational range of employees.
October 13, 2017 ・11 mins read
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HR Essentials
Struggling With HR? Here Are the Most Important HR Topics You Need to Juggle Right Now!
Most business owners realize, from the moment they hire their first employee, that human resources (HR) can be a tedious and time-consuming process. And the more employees you add to your team, the more work HR becomes. HR rules and regulations can differ tremendously by state or jurisdiction and, to make matters more complicated, these rules and regulations are constantly changing
September 26, 2017 ・5 mins read
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Wellness
Don’t Let a Natural Disaster Destroy Your Business Without a Fight. Here is What You Can Do, Starting Now, to Prepare
We have all recently witnessed how devastating natural disasters can be--destroying lives, businesses and property in an instant. The challenges to a business owner in the face of a natural disaster can quickly become overwhelming. Here are just a few actions small and midsize business (SMB) leaders should take before, during and after a natural disaster.
September 14, 2017 ・5 mins read
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HR Essentials
3 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Do Early On
Though the barriers to launching your own venture have never been lower, about 20% of small businesses fail in their first year and 50% of small businesses fail in their fifth year. But you can increase your chances of beating the odds. Before you go all-in on your company concept, take the following three steps to set yourself up for success.
September 7, 2017 ・4 mins read
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Diversity & Inclusion
Here Comes Generation Z: What Businesses Need to Know Now to Prepare for the Next Generation of Workers
Much has been written over the years about the millennial generation, but now it’s time for a new generation to make itself known in the workplace: generation Z.
August 31, 2017 ・6 mins read
Read more
Wellness
7 Tidy Ways to Keep Your Workspace Clean on a Budget
If you run a small or midsize business (SMB), there are ways to maintain a clean work environment without breaking the budget. Here are some tips for keeping your office space organized and in top form.
August 17, 2017 ・10 mins read
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HR News
The Unemployment Hearing Process
We previously talked about the unemployment benefits appeals process. Here we’ll turn our focus to helping you prepare for the unemployment hearing process.
August 1, 2017 ・14 mins read
Read more
Payroll
How are Payroll Taxes Calculated? - State Disability Insurance
Learn how state disability insurance (SDI) payroll tax is calculated in five different states - California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Hawaii and New York.
July 10, 2017 ・4 mins read
Read more
SMB Matters
It's the Season of Joy and Here Is Why We Are Happy to Share It With You
The holidays give us at TriNet a time to slow down just a tad to reflect as one year comes to an end, plan for the year ahead and stop to think about all that we are thankful for. We truly love what we do, which is helping our clients and their businesses succeed. So, with this “attitude of gratitude” in mind, we stopped to ask some of our colleagues for their thoughts on what they truly love about working with TriNet clients and why they are thankful for the opportunity to do so.
November 28, 2017 ・6 mins read
Read more
Benefits
Voluntary Benefits: A Winning Strategy for Employers and Employees
As benefits products become more standardized, employers are looking for ways to make themselves stand out from the pack in order to compete for top talent. Voluntary benefits are a great way to help accomplish this goal.
November 15, 2017 ・7 mins read
Read more
Diversity & Inclusion
Not Just Another Great Hire: Even More Reasons You Should Be Recruiting Veterans to Your Business
Emphasizing the hiring of veterans has been a trend in business for several years and TriNet stands proudly among these companies. It is especially crucial for the U.S. economy that organizations embrace service men and women in the civilian job market as roughly 250,000 service members a year will leave the military over the next five years. There are many incentives to businesses—incentives many don’t know about—for hiring veterans.
November 8, 2017 ・5 mins read
Read more
Diversity & Inclusion
Getting to Fair: The Gender Pay Gap in the Technology Industry
The tech industry, still largely controlled by white males, continues to be the subject of scrutiny when it comes to diversity in the workplace. The gender pay gap remains an issue, although how seriously it’s taken depends on which article or workplace survey you read. Businesses that fail to address equality concerns could face significant financial liability--not to mention the public relations disaster that normally accompanies revelations about such failures. In this post, we focus on the gender pay gap. We discuss relevant laws and offer some tips on how to reduce the gender pay gap in your tech business.
November 1, 2017 ・5 mins read
Read more
HR News
Medical Prices May Be Increasing in 2018. Here Is Why and What Your Business Can Do to Prepare
It’s time to start thinking about open enrollment and benefits renewal. It can be frustrating for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to have to budget for benefits when each year they see significant increases that outpace inflation. So what’s an SMB owner or HR professional to do? This post takes a deeper look at what the PwC annual report identifies as the three inflators and two deflators that are driving health spending increases for 2018. Then I’ll discuss what employers can do to prepare for these increases.
October 17, 2017 ・7 mins read
Read more
Culture
Collaborative Culture or Competitive: Which Is Best for Business?
Find out why a collaborative culture might give your business and its employees better odds for success than a traditional competitive culture.
October 16, 2017 ・8 mins read
Read more
Diversity & Inclusion
4 HR Strategies for Optimizing a Multigenerational Workforce in the Hospitality Industry
It is a common misconception that the hospitality industry is made up of mostly young workers. It is not uncommon for restaurants, hotels, resorts and other hospitality businesses to have four or more generations of employees working alongside one another. Here are four specific strategies hospitality employers should implement to get the most from the full generational range of employees.
October 13, 2017 ・11 mins read
Read more
Compliance
Understanding Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) & How to Tackle Making Changes
An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to identify a business entity - learn more about yours.
October 6, 2017 ・5 mins read
Read more
HR Essentials
Struggling With HR? Here Are the Most Important HR Topics You Need to Juggle Right Now!
Most business owners realize, from the moment they hire their first employee, that human resources (HR) can be a tedious and time-consuming process. And the more employees you add to your team, the more work HR becomes. HR rules and regulations can differ tremendously by state or jurisdiction and, to make matters more complicated, these rules and regulations are constantly changing
September 26, 2017 ・5 mins read
Read more
HR News
5 Steps Employers of Immigrant Workers Can Take to Prepare for a Potential Increase in I-9 Investigations
We expect that ICE will be conducting record numbers of worksite enforcement investigations, criminal prosecutions and audits for inspections and administrative fees. These ICE audits and investigations can result in employers having to settle technical violations for administrative shortcomings, even if they do not have an undocumented worker on payroll.
September 21, 2017 ・13 mins read
Read more
Wellness
Don’t Let a Natural Disaster Destroy Your Business Without a Fight. Here is What You Can Do, Starting Now, to Prepare
We have all recently witnessed how devastating natural disasters can be--destroying lives, businesses and property in an instant. The challenges to a business owner in the face of a natural disaster can quickly become overwhelming. Here are just a few actions small and midsize business (SMB) leaders should take before, during and after a natural disaster.
September 14, 2017 ・5 mins read
Read more
HR News
Frequently Asked Questions about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and What SMBs Need to Know to Prepare
On September 5, 2017, U.S. Secretary General Jeff Sessions announced an end to the DACA program. Under this directive, Acting U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine C. Duke has rescinded the 2012 memorandum. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has initiated a phase out of the DACA program by providing a limited six-month window to adjudicate certain pending and renewal DACA cases. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is no longer accepting initial (first time) DACA applications.
TriNet will be monitoring changes to the DACA program and how they affect small and midsize businesses (SMBs). In the meantime, here are answers to common questions about how the DACA rescission announcement will affect SMBs and their current employees.
September 12, 2017 ・8 mins read
Read more
HR Essentials
3 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Do Early On
Though the barriers to launching your own venture have never been lower, about 20% of small businesses fail in their first year and 50% of small businesses fail in their fifth year. But you can increase your chances of beating the odds. Before you go all-in on your company concept, take the following three steps to set yourself up for success.
September 7, 2017 ・4 mins read
Read more
Culture
Are You Marketing to Your Employees? 5 Ways to Brand Your Organization to Your Most Important Audience
Branding doesn’t just encompass your sales and marketing efforts.To be successful, branding needs to involve all your employees, no matter what their role in your organization. Making sure your employees understand and, more importantly, believe in your brand can help business overall. Check out these strategies for using branding to ensure your team is buying what you’re selling.
September 5, 2017 ・5 mins read
Read more
Diversity & Inclusion
Here Comes Generation Z: What Businesses Need to Know Now to Prepare for the Next Generation of Workers
Much has been written over the years about the millennial generation, but now it’s time for a new generation to make itself known in the workplace: generation Z.
August 31, 2017 ・6 mins read
Read more
HR Essentials
How Geralex Janitorial Services Cleaned Up Their Business
Recently, I chatted with Gerry Alvarado, Vice President and Co-founder of Geralex Janitorial Services, a company that was started more than 14 years ago in the Chicago area to provide environmentally friendly janitorial services to businesses. Gerry spoke about the explosive growth that nearly took his company down, the challenges he faced and the lessons he learned.
August 22, 2017 ・5 mins read
Read more
Wellness
7 Tidy Ways to Keep Your Workspace Clean on a Budget
If you run a small or midsize business (SMB), there are ways to maintain a clean work environment without breaking the budget. Here are some tips for keeping your office space organized and in top form.
August 17, 2017 ・10 mins read
Read more
Employee Assistance Programs Don’t Just Benefit Employees. Here’s Why They’re Good for Employers Too
an EAP is an employer-paid service that provides confidential counseling to eligible employees and their family members, 24 hours a day. Even the smallest employers should consider the benefit that EAP programs can have on not just their employees’ overall well-being but the well-being of their company.
August 3, 2017 ・5 mins read
Read more
HR News
The Unemployment Hearing Process
We previously talked about the unemployment benefits appeals process. Here we’ll turn our focus to helping you prepare for the unemployment hearing process.
August 1, 2017 ・14 mins read
Read more
HR Essentials
3 Best Business Practices for Life Sciences SMBs from a Leading Biotech Entrepreneur
Business leaders in the life sciences industry know all too well they face unique challenges. In this highly innovative and rapidly evolving field they must move quickly to remain relevant. Dr. Craig Shimasaki, president & CEO of Moleculera Labs and a successful founder of three biotech companies, shares the three key drivers for those in the life sciences industry:
July 25, 2017 ・4 mins read
Read more
Payroll
How are Payroll Taxes Calculated? - State Disability Insurance
Learn how state disability insurance (SDI) payroll tax is calculated in five different states - California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Hawaii and New York.
July 10, 2017 ・4 mins read
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