Working Smarter Café Podcast
Working Smarter Café, the tips and tricks podcast for UKG customers, is one of the most popular resources for administrators, payroll professionals, managers, and data enthusiasts who use UKG solutions. If reading isn’t your cup of tea (pun intended), but the longing for more product knowledge is rivaling your morning caffeine craving, this show is for you. Tune in for candid conversations with customers and UKG experts and to learn new ways to get the most from your UKG human capital management and workforce management solutions.
Working Smarter Café Podcast
Two-Minute Tuesday Tip: Intro to Payroll Mid-Year Blog Series
On this episode, we’ll introduce you to a new Program Series that will help all of our Payroll Admins prepare for Year End. Today we're joined by Lailaa Turner from the Customer Marketing team. She's excited to share about the Payroll Mid-Year blog series, and you can find the first of the three installments on the Working Smarter Cafe blog here: Payroll Prep: Beyond the Halfway Mark – Preparing and Data Validation.
Lailaa: Welcome back to the Working Smarter Café! My name is Lailaa Turner, and I’m a Customer Marketing Program Manager for UKG Ready. On this episode, I’ll introduce you to a new Program Series that will help all our Payroll Admins prepare for Year End.
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You may be thinking...” But Lailaa... it’s only July...” However, it’s never too early to start planning. As you may know, year-end duties can be an extreme undertaking if you’re not proactive. That’s why we’re introducing a 3-part blog series called “Payroll Prep: Beyond the Halfway Mark.”
This series aims to help UKG Ready customers prepare for year-end by providing insight and resources. It will cover key components of year-end success, such as auditing payroll configurations, balancing employee wages, and the Year-End Forms process and deadlines. We’ll present this information in three blog posts, which will be available bi-weekly on the Working Smarter Café site.
Our first installment published on July 15 and provides essential tips on auditing your payroll configuration and validating reports to make sure everything is in its proper place. Most of you are familiar with several different “boxes” that are part of the Forms W-2, and we want to make sure you know how to confirm all your earnings and benefits are reported in the proper box. I’m sure you know how much of a hassle it can be if not configured correctly. We’re here to help provide you with the necessary tools to ensure your year-end is as smooth as can be and minimize the need for W-2Cs! In our second installment, we’ll provide guidance on how to balance employee wages to prepare for W-2s and then our third installment will review the year-end forms process and key deadlines you may want to take note of.
Be sure you don't miss the upcoming "Payroll Prep: Beyond the Halfway Mark" blog series. More details can be found in the episode show notes. Thank you so much for listening!
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