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10 Ways to Improve the Candidate Experience

Recruitment is a two-way street–put your best foot forward to impress your top candidates! Too often, companies forget that recruitment and hiring is a two-way street–companies interview the candidates, but candidates are interviewing them too, as the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) points out. Up until 2016, A full 47% of candidates wouldn’t hear […]

Culture

13 Ways to Upgrade Your Onboarding Process

Take your onboarding process from “gets the job done” to “primes tomorrow’s leaders for success.” Just 41% of recent hires believe their organization’s onboarding primed them for success, a 2016 Oracle study found. “Employees ultimately decide if they would like to stay with a company within the first two weeks of employment,” says Gretchen […]

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How to Give More Effective Performance Reviews

If performance reviews feel like just a formality, learn how to give feedback that strengthens an adds value to employees’ performance. Too often, performance reviews are just a formality. And all too often, both the employee and supervisor dread them. According to Gallup, only 29% of employees believe their performance reviews are fair, and […]

Culture

The First 90 Days: 12 Ways to Set Up New Hires for Success

Ensure New Employees Have Clarity in Their Roles and Feel Like Part of the Team. Image source The first 90 days are a critical period for acclimating new hires to your workplace culture and getting them up to speed in their roles. During this time, it’s also vital to convince them that your company […]

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Upskill Your HR Team: 10 Essential Trainings for Your Staff

Take your HR staff to the next level with these 10 key trainings. According to Deloitte, reskilling the HR team should be a critical area of focus for most organizations. “Only 7% of HR leaders surveyed feel their teams can consistently deliver innovative programs that drive business impact,” Deloitte states. “Business leaders agree: Only […]

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Get ACA Compliant! Your Guide to Staying on the Right Side of the Law

Both Large and Small Businesses Need to Follow Specific ACA Guidelines–Find out How Your Business Can Avoid Penalties for Noncompliance. Although some have speculated about what might happen to the Affordable Care Act in 2018, it’s still in effect, and employers still face penalties if they don’t comply. In fact, companies that failed to comply […]

Benefits

How to Choose the Right Benefits Administration System for Your Company

The right benefits administration system will improve efficiency and help ensure compliance with healthcare regulations. If you’re like many benefits administrators, you may feel like “a department of one” But worry not; the right benefits administration software, like the software GoCo offers, will give you the vital support you need, taking over many of the arduous […]

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6 Steps to Get Your HR Department Up to Speed with GDPR

As GDPR takes effect, here’s how HR departments can ensure compliance. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new set of data protection regulations implemented by the European Union, took effect on May 25, 2018. Intended to protect the data privacy of EU citizens, it requires businesses worldwide to comply with the new regulations in […]

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Find Out Instantly If You’re Withholding the Right Amount of Taxes

Check out GoCo’s W-4 Withholding Calculator to instantly see if you’re withholding the right amount for your taxes. In 2018, the IRS updated their recommendations on how much money you should withhold from your paycheck so you’re not stuck with a big tax bill at the end of the year. But the IRS isn’t known to be […]

New Features

Managing Partner User Permissions Just Got Easier

Today we launched a new Permission Management portal for our certified partners. It’s now easier than ever to control who has access to all your client accounts. It All Starts with TeamsAssigning access and permissions to client accounts starts with creating a team (even if it’s a 1-person team). If you’re a broker Partner, you […]

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Introducing BenAdmin v2 – Improved workflows for setting up benefits

GoCo’s new Ben Admin workflow launches today! We’ve applied everything we’ve learned about setting up benefits over the last few years to help make implementing benefits easier than ever before! Most of the workflow should seem very familiar, but there are a few key conceptual changes that will help you get used to the new […]

HR

Five methods for handling layoffs more gracefully

There’s no sugarcoating layoffs. They’re an unavoidable part of running a business that, like most hard decisions, tend to leave a bad taste for everyone involved. But it’s possible to ease the process a great deal with the right approach. The key is to take every affected party into account, from the employees being let […]

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The right way to give employees more autonomy

Whereas the micromanaging boss is usually the villain in water cooler stories, a company that gives employees freedom to make decisions can be the star. Research has shown independence to be among the things that workers value most in a job. According to one study, the average person is nearly two and a half times […]

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