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News & Insights

5 Benefits of Outsourcing Payroll for Your Growing Business

Highlights Ensuring accurate and timely payroll for your employees takes time, precision, and keeping up with complex and shifting regulations. But have you evaluated the benefits of outsourcing payroll? Outsourcing payroll can help you streamline the entire process, freeing you up from routine, administrative tasks and allowing you to focus on core operations. Let’s explore […]

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What’s the Difference Between an FSA and an HSA?

Highlights Healthcare benefits are improving as employers seek to attract and retain the best talent in a competitive job market. Savvy employers are offering more options to keep them ahead of the curve, such as Flex Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA). But do you really know the difference between an FSA and […]

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How to Improve Work-Life Balance for Your Employees

Highlights Maintaining a balance between work and a fulfilling personal life is a growing challenge for American workers. In 2023, 27% quit their jobs, citing work/life imbalance as a major reason. It’s clear that something needs to change. But what exactly is work-life balance, and how can employers help their teams achieve it? Understanding that […]

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8 HR Best Practices You Need to Embrace This Year

As workplace dynamics change, HR best practices also evolve and need to be redefined. With a fresh New Year ahead, it’s the perfect opportunity to revise how you’ve been approaching your HR processes and detect which areas you may need [...]

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Understanding Your Multigenerational Workforce

For the first time in history our workforce spans five generations: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers and Generations X, Y and Z. Each generation operates with distinctive communication styles, motivations, and definitions of work ethic. “Work smarter not harder” makes no sense [...]

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4 Reasons a Professional Employer Organization Can Help Businesses

Entrepreneurial company leaders simply don’t have time to do everything. Which is why a professional employer organization, or PEO, will help you grow and stay complaint as you grow. A PEO provides comprehensive human resources and compliance services to small- [...]

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The Benefits of Business Owners Joining an Entrepreneurs Organization (EO)

Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) is a global network of business owners that provides a range of benefits to its members. Joining EO can be extremely beneficial, both personally and professionally. AccessPoint first joined EO Detroit in 2010 and added the EODC [...]

AccessPoint’s Greg Packer Featured on The Pre W. Smith Show

AccessPoint’s CEO, Greg Packer, was recently featured on The Pre W. Smith Show, a business biography radio show on 760 WJR in Detroit, Michigan. Joining host Jeff Sloan, he spoke about his start as an entrepreneur. The show is a [...]

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Virtual Volunteering: A New Trend in Recruiting and Retaining Employees

Employers are facing many challenges well into 2022. One of these has been dubbed the Great Resignation. Employees are resigning from their jobs at an alarming rate, forcing employers to re-prioritize their recruitment and retention strategies. It’s important to understand [...]

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Remote and Hybrid Workplace Mistakes to Avoid

Before COVID-19, only 33% of companies managed a remote team.[1] However, as many businesses have experienced, working remote, or creating a hybrid workplace, has become the “new normal.” In a May 2021 Remote Work and Compensation Pulse Survey,[2] 48% of [...]

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Receiving Feedback as a Leader and Setting the Example

Part of being a successful leader is knowing how to give and take feedback. Receiving honest, constructive feedback from your employees will help build and maintain trust and ensure your employees feel valued. So much so that leaders that asked [...]

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Unemployment Benefits Claims and Contesting

In today’s economic climate, companies are working hard to strengthen their bottom line and financial standing. One potential necessary and costly area of business to consider is unemployment claims. The U.S. unemployment insurance system has been in place since the [...]

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Four Ways to Boost Cyber Security for 2022

According to INTERPOL, “cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing [crimes]” and continues to be just as serious as other crimes committed around the world.   For business owners, cyber security should remain top-of-mind in terms of policies and procedures that [...]

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5 Technology Trends for 2021

Technology is a booming industry, especially for businesses across the globe that were coerced to shift to a remote work environment due to COVID-19. Many businesses in the technology sector have taken advantage of this transition and have developed innovative [...]

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Understanding and Supporting Multigenerational Workforces

Today’s workforce spans five generations: traditionalists, baby boomers, Generations X, Y, and Z. Each generation comprises distinctive communication styles, motivations, and approaches to work. By understanding each generation’s unique needs and how to support those needs can help employers adapt [...]