Benefits of Outsourcing Your Payroll

Care.com HR, IT, and Facilities teams sought out a more efficient and streamlined way to support their employees' FAQs, across the US and in Germany. Typically, employees would ask questions to various group inboxes for benefits, payroll, and people operations. Additionally, Care.com uses Slack as its collaboration tool and employees often ask questions in a People Operations channel and HR would reply. But it required continual monitoring and delivering manual responses. At times, there was concern about the consistency of answers to questions with many recent business and policy changes.

In an era when all-too-many employees have left their jobs and hiring is a major challenge, employers are focused on improving the employee experience. To learn more about the state of employee/human experience, we conducted a major survey of today’s HR professionals as well as of employees themselves.

It can feel like the world is a closed space – where everyone else knows the secrets to success and that you are alone in your obscurity. It can feel like you have to constantly do MORE to show up as the expert (you think they think) you are. Sounds familiar? Experts call it imposter syndrome or imposter phenomenon, and it’s what causes you to feel like a fraud in your field of expertise. It puts you through a pressurizing competition with yourself. Today, we’re exploring the phenomenon in conscious detail.

To keep today’s workforce engaged, no matter what your return to work structure is, HR and business leaders need to focus on human connections, core values, and meaningful programs that bring out the best in employees. The good news is that revitalizing employee engagement does not have to be a huge, complex program. The key to employee engagement is to take steps that are strategic, so you can start realizing business benefits right away.