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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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Cannabis: Workers’ Compensation and Health Considerations

The cannabis industry is starting to boom. Oftentimes people think of the cannabis industry as brick-and-mortar establishments that customers physically visit. However, tremendous efforts go into the agricultural work to sustaining the cannabis industry. And like any other agricultural work, [...]

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Helping Employees Attain Their New Year’s Goals

2020 was a rollercoaster. Given the COVID-19 crisis, the election year, and the day-to-day stresses that come with work and regular life outside of adapting to our new ways of life in these ever-changing times, you can expect to see [...]

Boosting Employee Appreciation

At 87% of recognition programs, years of service is the most common form of employee recognition.[1] However, employee appreciation can be delivered in various ways. While years of service is not a bad way to recognize and demonstrate employee appreciation, [...]

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Onboarding and Training for the Cannabis Industry: Turning New Hires into Experts

The surge of open jobs and hiring needs created by the widespread legalization of marijuana has left many employers ill-equipped to handle onboarding and training on such a large scale, especially those without an HR specialist. To make matters worse, [...]

Fall Safety Tips 2020

2020 has certainly been nothing short of eventful. As social isolation and uncertainty of the ongoing COVID situation, it should come as no surprise that everyone is going a little stir crazy. Fall is a time that brings people together, [...]

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Cannabis: What’s Old Is New Again

By James Tehrani If you would have asked a young James Tehrani in the ’80s what two things would never change, I might have said the cool fashion trends of the day and that pot would always be illegal. OK, [...]

Protecting Employees from Cyberattacks

Cyberattacks occur every 39 seconds.[1] Unfortunately, times of crises oftentimes create ample opportunity for cybercriminals to target vulnerable populations. While data breaches and cyberattacks continually make headlines, businesses should be taking extra precaution with regard to benefits providers. Because many [...]

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5 HR Compliance Issues for the Cannabis Industry

The rapid growth of the cannabis industry has placed an immense amount of pressure on all positions within its various sectors in recent years. Given that cannabis businesses already face complex compliance concerns and workforce management obstacles in an evolving [...]

Stress and Anxiety Toolkit for Employers

As one can only imagine, COVID-19 has impacted the world on personal and professional levels. In the wake of COVID-19, a mental health pandemic has emerged. With shifting workplace conditions and employee responsibilities, employees may be experiencing increased levels of [...]

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Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace are becoming trending HR topics for 2020. From investing in regular sensitivity trainings and adequate resources to forward-thinking solutions and implementing proper policies and procedures, diversity and inclusion can evolve with your business and [...]

Preparing for Employees’ Return to Work

Michigan was one of only a few states to extend their stay-at-home order past the nationwide recommendation to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. However, as the state prepares to re-open and businesses must prepare their employees for return to [...]

Funding Restored for Michigan Charter Schools

Charter Schools in Michigan experienced a significant win on December 20 with the restoration of $35 million in support funding for charter school students. The bill, signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, reversed a veto that denied an increase for $240 [...]