Human Resources

Quickly hiring and onboarding employees is a critical way for your business to save time and money. After all, hiring searches are costly in both money and energy, and employees who are not properly onboarded are more likely to leave their job—creating yet more expensive hiring searches. In the New Year, take a look at…

Your interview process is supposed to help you find the best job candidates for your business, the people who will help you succeed. But it only works if you’re taking the right approach in interviews and asking the right things. Many businesses—including both large and small—use interview techniques that don’t work. Are you making some…

There are many factors that go into a business’s decision on whether to offer parental leave. There are legal questions: businesses with 50 or more employees are required by law, while certain states have set requirements for smaller employees, as well. There are the logistical questions: what resources do you have available to enable you…

Getting a business off the ground takes money, and for some businesses, that means getting outside funding, whether from investors or lenders. Sometimes, an angel investor is the right answer. But what is an angel investor, and when are they an appropriate funding source? How do you go about pitching to an angel investor? Get…

For many businesses, the holiday season is the busiest time of the year. But at the same time, that’s when many people on your team are looking to take time off for traveling and celebrating those very same holidays. So how do you satisfy these conflicting problems? The ADP blog team has some suggestions, including…

Your workspace affects your employee productivity—and their health. And while there may be some aspects of your workspace that is negatively impacting your team, many problems are relatively easy and cheap to solve. Looking at Leigh Stringer’s book The Healthy Workplace: How to Improve the Well-Being of Your Employees—and Boost Your Company’s Bottom Line, we’ve…

If a former employee who resigned from your company wants to come back, there are some important benefits to making that move, given the right situation. Bringing a former employee back onboard will be more cost-effective in terms of training and onboarding, and it’s possible their time away has resulted in some additional skills and…

If you rely on your POS system for time and wage data, that is some of the most important data you have, and manual data entry can be time-consuming—and ultimately very expensive in terms of using your time as the business owner. But there are ways to use your POS system and transfer all that…

When we’re looking to hire a new employee, many of us focus on active job seekers—the people are out there actively looking for a job. But you can really benefit by finding ways to sell your business to passive job seekers—people who are not actively looking for a new job, but will accept an offer…