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Working from home? Here are the best UK towns and cities for fast broadband

cipHR

The bottom five towns and cities in Ciphr’s index are Chichester – where just a third (34.4%) of people working from home have access to ultrafast broadband of at least 100Mbps, and the top median download speed is 47.4 Mbps – Canterbury, Caerphilly, Wrexham, and Winchester.

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Work From Home Resources For Employers & Employees

Genesis HR Solutions

Almost overnight, millions of people who make up the American workforce were forced to adapt to a new reality in light of the COVID-19 pandemic: working from home (WFH). The current emergency situation is changing the landscape of the work environment for these employees as well as the employers tasked with managing them.

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Should You Provide a Work-from-home Reimbursement to Remote Employees?

Patriot Software

If so, you may consider offering work-from-home reimbursement to help workers cover remote-related expenses. Read on to learn what a work-from-home reimbursement covers, tax details, and state guidelines. Do you have a temporary or permanently remote workforce?

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4 payroll trends likely to outlive the pandemic

Business Management Daily

So where do we go from here? There are four factors that have probably become a permanent part of the payroll practice. Electronic everything in payroll. Most states don’t allow you to push employees into direct deposit, but you can make these employees’ lives increasingly uncomfortable by mailing their paychecks home.

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Your October payroll questions answered

Business Management Daily

So before we turn our attention to post-season baseball, let’s sort through some pandemic-related payroll questions that have come to our attention. There’s no cut-and-dried answer, but here’s what you need to consider: Were employees working from home for the employer’s convenience? It depends.

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5 Unusual Payroll Issues That Need Resolving Fast (and How to Troubleshoot Them)

Hppy

Payroll problems can be a thorn in the side of any business, so it’s important to have a plan of action in place to either avoid them entirely, or remedy them as and when they arise. Review payroll data regularly in order to catch any mistakes early on, as this will save time down the line if there ever needs to be corrections made.

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Technology can speed payroll when employees are scattered

Business Management Daily

The problem with processing payroll when employees are working from home is employees: Their home computers aren’t as secure as their work computers and their typical, normal questions take up way too much of your time. Blockchain for payroll. Technology can be your friend, here. Or at least easier.

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