There’s a broad spectrum and diversity of roles within the construction industry. This can be an administrative nightmare when it comes to managing operational, staffing, and welfare initiatives. Payroll, obviously, forms a critical part of all these activities. In the context of payroll, you also need to add in the presence of unions and the […]
The administrative challenges of managing multiple trade unions and contractors for various projects can become overwhelming — as can calculating and processing multi-tiered pay rates. This makes the process of union payroll processing confusing, time-consuming, and tedious. Managing hundreds of trade unions efficiently and administering prevailing wages for thousands of craft can put payroll managers […]
Technology advancements are paving the way for one of the largest industries in the world, the construction sector. As emerging technologies reshape the construction industry, construction companies are reaping the results from eliminating long-standing inefficacies and low productivity. Despite construction being known as one of the lesser digitized sectors, industry leaders are embracing the challenges […]
Processing payroll can be difficult and time-consuming for any business. But nothing seems to compare to the challenges of construction and union payroll processing. Whether it’s tracking hundreds of unions across multiple projects, managing multiple pay rates and departments, properly applying multi-state and local taxes, or keeping up with compliance and reporting, construction companies face […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic created disruptions worldwide, there was a paradigm shift in how businesses enabled their workforce to work comfortably and safely. Remote work became a norm in most domains. But the ones where the physical presence of the workforce was deemed necessary, like the construction industry, did not have this luxury of remote […]
Imagine being a multi-dollar construction company creating a new state-of-the-art facility and finding itself late and over budget, accruing losses and delaying revenues by the day. Or – maybe you don’t need to imagine — this may be a common occurrence. As construction companies face increasing complexity, project leaders find themselves looking for new solutions […]
Traditionally, many construction companies used physical timecards to keep track of their employee’s work time (or time spent on their allocated job). Timecards have also been effective at estimating project costs and client billing. Why are timecards and attendance tracking critical for successful projects? Timecards effectively improve project execution and help to control any project […]
By 2025, experts predict that there will be rapid acceleration to the cloud. Driven by the demand for integration capabilities, agile work processes and composable architecture, Gartner Inc. predicts that companies will dedicate 51% of enterprise IT spending toward technologies that support a transition to the cloud, compared to 41% in 2022. Companies are moving […]
It is quite common for small and medium businesses to invest in QuickBooks early in their journey to digitizing core functions like accounting, payroll, and billing. Construction companies also find it helpful to organize some of their major back-office administrative functions and support reporting. Since its market introduction, QuickBooks has successfully delivered financial solutions for […]
During the era of the great resignation, HR and payroll software professionals must not be excluded from hybrid and remote work models. This becomes even more glaring when 97% of employees don’t want to return to the office full-time. Providing employees with the perks of working remotely is a must in today’s workforce, which means […]
