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How to Set Up Payroll for Your Small Business: 9 Key Steps

Highlights Every business needs a solid payroll system. This guarantees your employees get paid on time, keeps you compliant, and helps you maintain accurate, healthy financial records. However, for new business owners, setting up payroll for the first time might be daunting. This guide shows you how to set up payroll for your small business […]

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Independent Contractor or Employee: Key Differences and Risks

Highlights Misclassifying workers in the U.S. can have legal and financial consequences for your business. However, in some cases, the line between an independent contractor and an employee can be surprisingly blurry. This article highlights the key differences between these two types of workers to help you stay compliant and make informed decisions when bringing […]

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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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Learn What is a PEO and How It Can Benefit Your Business

What Is a PEO? Pros, Cons & FAQs [PEO Guide]

Highlights Looking to reduce the admin workload of your small or mid-sized business? Teaming up with a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) might be the right move. Read on to find out what is a PEO, the numerous advantages it can [...]

Discover how Outsourcing Human Resources Can Help Your Business

Outsourcing Human Resources: Advantages You Should Know

Highlights HR professionals are often buried in a myriad of mundane daily tasks that keep them apart from strategic initiatives. By outsourcing Human Resources to an external provider, HR teams can take routine, time-consuming tasks off their plate and focus [...]

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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 [...]