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How Hiring Virtual Assistants Can Boost Employee Performance and Work-Life Balance

Success

Employees “were able to take their PTO knowing that someone was fully covering their [tasks] and that they are not coming back to catch up with their emails and reports; they have a teammate they can trust, because they went to the same training as the in-office assistants,” she says. What types of tasks might virtual assistants help with?

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Employers may be responsible for employee damages from cyber security hacks

BMT Office Administration

Mail scams may be making a comeback, but the quickest, easiest, and most efficient way for a scammer or phisher to steal employees’ identities is to hack into your computer network. Pay up: Maine wage-payment laws Employee self-service portals are a great innovation for Payroll and HR.

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CFPB warns against money apps for paying employees

BMT Office Administration

Direct deposit works through the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network—you instruct your bank to prepare a payroll file and it disburses employees’ pay electronically to their banks. However, there are other ways to send money electronically, not through the ACH network and not directly through banks.

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5 SOP examples for your business

BMT Office Administration

Conduct the HR orientation to orient the new employee with the timekeeping and payroll software , necessary paperwork, and internal resources. Encourage internal staff to share the opening with their networks. Double-check the spelling of the customer’s name and email address. Example 5 – Payroll processing.

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Stay organized and secure with electronic records management

BMT Office Administration

Others, such as emails and social media posts, are not so obvious. Payroll information. Software applications such as encryption tools help by making a document intercepted over an open network inaccessible or unreadable. Some types of business records, such as tax forms and legal documents, are relatively easy to spot.

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Can you go from creative and productive in a corporate job to a mess working for yourself?

Stephanie LH Calahan

Today, I'm going to address a question that I hear often in networking meetings and was expressed to me recently in a reader email.    You can do it and if you'd like a little help, I'm only an email away.   Can you go from creative and productive in a corporate job to a mess working for yourself?

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Cloud Questions That Your CEO Will Ask

Small Business CEO

These should be the ones that aren’t a technological burden such as email, payroll applications and types of customer relation management (CRM). There is also the cost of increased internal productivity that can be achieved when your company’s computer network is operating more efficiently. How are we saving money?

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