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Projecting Staffing Needs for 2021 in the Time of a Pandemic
As most businesses have learned this year, a pandemic can really skew projections when it comes to profitability and growth. As such, it’s also changed many hiring and recruitment plans for businesses that had been on target for greater growth pre-pandemic and have...
New Payroll Tax Holiday Available September 1 – December 31, 2020
New IRS Guidance related to employee payroll tax collection has been issued to allow for deferral of payroll taxes through the end of 2020 in an effort to provide income relief to those employees who have been impacted by COVID-19. Notice 2020-65 was issued on...
New FMLA Forms Available
If you’re an employer of 50 or more, you have likely had the experience of handling an employee’s leave of absence under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and know just how many forms are required to process and authorize an employee’s FML leave. Just recently,...
Understanding the Ins and Outs of Compensation Reviews
Have you ever been asked by an employee how you decided what they would make? Or perhaps tried to identify whether a role should be classified as Exempt or Non-Exempt? Or created a new position and had to determine how much to pay the new employee? One of the most...
ALERT: Fraud against small businesses on the rise!
ALERT: Fraud against small businesses on the rise! During the general kerfuffle that has arisen around COVID-19, many small businesses have been hit hard by fraudsters. One of the latest areas that we have seen a dramatic uptick in fraud has to do with Direct Deposit....
Continuing Education with HR Best Practices
We are committed to helping businesses continue their training and education with the most current HR best practices. JB Consulting Systems has 14 webinar offerings taught by our President and author, Juli Bacon. The lessons from the webinar are derived from her...
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Building a Successful Digital Nomad Workforce
Everywhere we look these days there is a lot of talk about remote work, businesses are in a precarious position to learn to adopt to a new way of interacting and managing their employees, but what does this really look like? This is a two way street too, employees...
Grief in the Workplace a Personal Experience
Grief, unfortunately, happens and the loss of loved ones, friends, and acquaintances cannot be avoided. When employees begin to navigate the grieving process it may have a profound impact on the workplace. As an employer and advisor to other employers, I didn’t fully...
Drive Consumer Action With Content Marketing
Today, the average amount of daily screen time a person spends on a device has increased to seven hours and that time has more than doubled over the last two years. Before the pandemic, the average user spent only three hours engaged with their devices, but as...
Recruitment Tools for Today’s Hiring Melee
With a record number of open job postings, and with many workers still on the sidelines, this has created a challenge of finding the right candidate to fill those open roles. With candidates in short supply, your recruitment strategies of pre-2020 now require a...
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