Tips for Maximizing Your Employee Retention
Every employer dreads the day a valued and valuable employee knocks on their office door with bad news: they have been offered a new position at a different company. How do you ensure this situation never happens to you, you might be asking? Well, while you may not be able to prevent each and every…
Open Enrollment 101: Be Prepared for This Year’s Upcoming Open Enrollment Period
Open enrollment in the United States is defined by a period of time that allows employees of companies and organizations to apply for or make changes to their workplace benefits. Here, the HR and payroll experts at Wise Consulting discuss everything you need to know about open enrollment so you can be fluent in the…
Have You Started Thinking About Year End? Let Us Show You How to Have a Smooth One
The sun is shining, the trees are green and the temperatures are high—so, it may seem like a strange time to be thinking about the cold and short days of year’s end. However, hear us out. Year end is coming, whether you are thinking about it or not. Year end is a time for thick…
Now is the Time to Begin Thinking Open Enrollment: Are You Prepared?
We are all guilty of letting things slide to the back burner. It’s easy to say, “it can wait,” to all kinds of to-do’s, like power-washing the house, booking a hair appointment or taking your car in for its 60,000 mile maintenance. It happens at work too: that report can wait; that new training protocol…
Mistakes to Avoid When Implementing a New HRIS
A human resource information system, or HRIS, streamlines the necessary processes of your human resource department by storing data electronically and automating certain functions and tasks. While the payroll and HR experts at Wise recommend fully leveraging the best HR system for you to ease your day-to-day HR activities, make sure to avoid making these…
How You Can Use Your HR and Payroll Systems to Help Maximize Employee Happiness
How You Can Use Your HR and Payroll Systems to Help Maximize Employee Happiness Employee happiness may be one of the single most important metrics within a company. Why? Because happy employees are more productive—they work harder and longer because they know that they are valued and that their work has meaning. But, how…
Workforce Management Systems: How Wise Can Help Your Expectations Become Reality
Picture this: after calling vendor after vendor and listening to sales pitch after sales pitch, you finally settle on a new time and attendance system. In fact, the whole process took so long that, turns out, time and attendance systems are now called workforce management systems. But, you’ve finally made a decision. Your vendor has…
How to Make Your Onboarding Process More Efficient
Overseeing the onboarding process is usually the responsibility of Information Technology (IT), Human Resources (HR) and a hiring manager, and even with the combined expertise and teamwork of these entities, the process of efficiently transitioning a new hire into your company can be overwhelming for a group of individuals with other duties to fulfill. Here,…
IRS Implements Payroll Tax Compliance Campaign
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has just announced the results of a two-week education and enforcement campaign regarding the payment of payroll taxes. Here, the experts in Human Capital Management (HCM) and Payroll Management Technology at Wise Consulting detail these results, discuss the implications for CEOs, company presidents and business management employees and provide insights…
The Ins and Outs of Payroll Tax
The specifics of payroll taxes can be difficult to understand, and mistakes can result in consequences like frustrating late fees and accrued interest. In order to avoid these pesky penalties, it is essential to have a basic understanding of payroll taxes, what they are used for and what types of penalties can occur if you…