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HR and Payroll Tips and Tricks
"The number one small business issue is the cost and availability of insurance."
National Federation of Independent Business and US Small Business Administration, 2007
"Thirty-three percent of small business owners identified workers' compensation as a critical problem."
National Federation of Independent Business, 2007
According to Jury Verdict research, the average jury award for employment practice liability case was $250,000
"Business owners spend up to 40 percent of their time consumed by employer-related paperwork."
US Small Business Administration, 2007
"HR expense per FTE, which represents the amount of human resource dollars spent per fulltime equivalent (FTE) in the organization, increased to a median of $1,200 in 2006, up from 1,072 in the previous year."
SHRM, Human Capital Benchmarking Study, 2007
Regulations cost business owners with fewer than 20 employees about 60% more per employee in compliance costs than experienced in larger firms.
Over the next 12 months, roughly 1/3 of Best-in-Class companies plan to start using enterprise collaboration tools that enable real-time information exchange and notifications. - Aberdeen Group, The Global War for Talent - Getting What you Want Won't Be Easy, 2007