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HR Consulting Firms for Small Businesses: 15 Leading Experts

Astron Solutions

As a general category of operations at your business, human resources encompasses a very wide range of essential activities, touching on compliance, long-term strategic planning, and every part of the employee lifecycle. Labor relations and compliance. Zenefits — Best for streamlined onboarding. Internal communications.

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What Zenefits Teaches Us About the Limits of Disruption

Workology

Zenefits is hot tech startup that provides HR software to small businesses. Like its founders, Zenefits’ first clients were embedded in Silicon Valley tech culture and were frustrated by how complicated HR can be and how much of the industry still works in pen and paper (that frustrates me too, guys).

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Recruitment Process Outsourcing: Your Competitive Advantage?

Zenefits

Other services RPO providers can offer include compliance support and the mitigation of risks associated with compliance. For instance, they may outsource candidate sourcing, management, or screening while in-house staff works the rest of the hiring process. Developing a pipeline for future hiring needs.

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EEOC Announces ADA Guidance for Using AI in Screening and Assessment

Zenefits

The use of screening and assessment technologies continues to grow. Companies are moving beyond simple resume/application screening software to more advanced assessment tools. Others use chatbots or other interactive technology for pre-screening or ‘first interview’ assessments. Timed testing may also tend to exclude.

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PEO Costs: Does PEO Make Sense for Your Business?

Zenefits

They are staffed by professionals specializing in human resources, taxes, compliance law, and accounting. Help the employer maintain compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations. Perform background screening and drug testing. PEOs and their clients are considered co-employers.

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5 Common HR Compliance Mistakes for Startups and How to Avoid Them

Zenefits

Therefore, it is unsurprising that startups are susceptible to severe HR compliance mistakes. HR compliance errors can be detrimental to a startup in several ways: Substantial litigation costs if the startup is not in compliance with federal and state labor laws or fails to ensure data security and privacy. Reference checks.

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Should Employers Rethink Their PTO Policies Under COVID-19?

Zenefits

Additionally, employees at almost 3,000 companies submitted about 63,000 requests to take vacation from April to May, according to data from Zenefits. In response to the pandemic and the underutilization of PTO, Vested adjusted its policy to encourage employees to take more time off and spend less time at their computer screens, Torres said.