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How to Make Hiring And Paying Workers For Events The Easiest Part of Your Day

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It’s always a good idea to treat your workers right. Aside from just being the right thing to do, it also makes business sense to make onboarding easy and payment quick and accurate. The current labor shortage just makes it extra important because workers have options and you want to be sure that your project is the one that gets priority and they answer the call when you need them. Whether you’re hiring temporary workers for a massive event or a one-camera shoot, having a partner equipped to onboard and pay temporary workers quickly and accurately makes both clients’ and workers’ lives easier.

How to Make Onboarding and Paying Event Workers The Easiest Part of Your Job

It’s simple: Partner with an Employer of Record (EOR). Here are some of the benefits:

  • EORs are in position to onboard and pay workers–even thousands of workers– to staff events. They can handle all the details for big and small events alike. 
  • They have the systems in place! Here at PayReel, much of the system is automated so you can take care of just about anything…at any hour…with a few taps or clicks. You don’t have to talk to anyone if you don’t want to but humans are available when you do need them. Our Client Relationship Managers are not limited to a nine-to-five schedule either. We have an after-hours phone line so we can be sure to provide speedy answers. 
  • Paper-free paperwork. Not having to sift through piles of identical paperwork cluttering up your desk and your headspace makes the process quicker and easier for clients and workers. Paperwork without the paper? Yes, please! 
  • EORs are in position to process payments in a speedy manner. In our case, workers submit timecards on Mondays and we pay them on Fridays. When they’re paid quickly, they don’t need to call your office, which frees you up to do your job better. Of course, it also keeps workers happy so they are free to focus on your project and happy to come back for your next event.
  • Keeping workers happy means the people you’ve hired once stay loyal. Whether they’re working for one day or for a month, quick and accurate payment ensures that when you’re ready to hire them again, they’ll be ready to pick up the call.
  • Not only does an EOR manage event payroll and payroll taxes; as the employer of record, they even take on all risk associated with a variable workforce.

The Bottom Line

The bottom line is that, by managing all the payment details, including the mountains of W-4s , an established EOR makes payroll a non-event. Here at PayReel, we’re devoted to making every single client and worker interaction a good one. Clients who put on events say they work with us because we make their lives easier. Think you might benefit from hiring a payroll service? Here’s a handy guide to find out more. Or contact us at 303-526-4900.

 

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Would Your Business Benefit from Partnering With an Employer of Record? 

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Today we’re going to talk about what exactly an EOR is, who can benefit most from partnering with one and why, and what you can do today if you’re ready to cut that red tape and get out from under a mountain of onboarding paperwork.

Let’s start with what an Employer of Record (or an EOR) is.

And since taxes, benefits, and insurance are some of the most complex, risk-heavy parts of doing business (seriously, did you want to stress eat a cookie just reading those words?) it can be a game-changer for certain businesses.

So which businesses benefit the most from partnering with an EOR? 

Businesses with a lot of hiring needs on tight deadline find that an EOR can be an absolutely indispensable secret weapon. These businesses often…

  •  Need to hire a lot of freelancers without making hiring freelancers their main business.
  • Don’t have time to deal with the administrative problems and mountains of paperwork that come with hiring, paying, and insuring workers.
  • Have a hard time keeping their workforce happy because it takes a highly-trained team and airtight systems to pay quickly and accurately.
  • Worry about getting on the IRS’s radar because the laws are always changing any errors can bring on audits, fines, and penalties.
Don’t pick up that cookie…I have good news!
This exactly where an EOR can be a total game-changer because it eliminates red tape for hiring while also keeping those doing the hiring out of court.

An EOR serves as the employer and takes on all related responsibilities and liabilities while employees work for another company. Depending on the needs, an EOR does some or all of the following:

  • Makes hiring new workers (often one of the most painful parts of the process) easier and faster
  • Covers payroll management for freelancers
  • Maintains current headcount
  • Guarantees on-time payment
  • Handles all compliance issues
  • Provides workers’ comp and all necessary insurance for contractors
  • Conducts background checks and drug screenings
  • Terminates employees, administers benefits, and handles some worker issues

By doing all that, an EOR can eliminate or greatly reduce the need for an HR department.

In short, an EOR turns a mountain of hiring paperwork (certificates of insurance, I-9s, E-verify forms, and so on) into a molehill.

Here’s what to do today if you think you might benefit from partnering with an EOR

If partnering with a company that specializes in these services and has existing systems in place would help you move your projects forward and keep your hands off those cookies, fill out our form at PayReel.com and we’ll talk through solutions for your unique situation. 

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Preventing Live Event Failures

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Preventing Live Event Failures

During the COVID-19 pandemic, live video usage skyrocketed as organizations shifted from in-person to remote work. As companies return to the office full-time or in a hybrid capacity, video communications remain an integral tool to inform and engage the workforce. However, as employees return to in-person work, businesses have experienced live event failures. Many networks are not prepared for employees simultaneously streaming bandwidth-intensive content on-site. In hybrid models, employees are not coming to the office as regularly as they were pre-pandemic. However, when they do come, it is often en masse and unpredictable, creating peak demand problems for corporate networks that are challenging to anticipate and manage effectively.

These failures occur on networks that are not optimized for distributing the increased consumption of on-site video due to return to office plans and the rise of hybrid work. Luckily, these failures are preventable. With the right technology in place, effective testing, and live analytics, you can confidently deliver flawless live video across the enterprise.

Live Event Failures are on the Rise

Enterprise communications and IT teams that successfully delivered live events to a fully remote audience are now struggling as employees return to the office. Companies rely on live video to connect and engage with employees more than they did prior to the pandemic. Since February 2020, the time spent in Teams meetings has increased by 252% for the average user. This is problematic for many businesses as most pre-pandemic networks are not prepared for the increase in live video and the amount of bandwidth it requires. Streaming live events over networks that aren’t prepared to deliver video at scale risks event failures and can impact business-critical applications running on the same network.

Network Volatility Causes Live Event Failures in Hybrid Workplaces

In a hybrid work scenario, the number of employees on-site is in constant flux, giving businesses a false impression of their network’s capacity. We’ve seen companies with even a small fraction of their employees exceed the capacity of their corporate network while streaming video. However, the most common cause for network failures in the hybrid workplace is network volatility.

Network volatility refers to the change in demand that is placed on a network over time. Networks for businesses operating a hybrid work model may perform well during days of the week when the number of on-site employees is low. However, many businesses have coordinated in-person days in which a large percentage of the workforce comes to the office. Suddenly the network that performed well is at risk of failing when met with the increase in demand.

The Cost of Failed Live Events

Businesses invest time, money, and resources into live events. When live events fail, those efforts are wasted. The financial costs are reason enough to invest in systems to avoid event failures, but the communications repercussions can leave a lasting impact.

Live events deliver essential messaging, connect employees to leadership, promote company visions and values, and create organizational transparency and inclusivity. When employees can’t access these communications or are faced with a poor user experience, it is a lost opportunity to connect them to the company, leadership, and their peers. This lack of connection leads to lower engagement which, according to a recent Gallup report , costs $7.8 trillion in lost productivity across the globe.

Prevent Event Failures with Kollective

To prevent failed events, networks need to be prepared to accommodate live video with an enterprise content delivery network (ECDN), properly tested, and monitored during events. Kollective provides the tools you need to quickly and easily ensure your next event is a success.

Kollective Edge Accelerator

The modern business has unique network requirements that can be affected by a variety of circumstances like office locations and bandwidth availability. Kollective’s ECDN, Edge Accelerator , can optimize your network for live video delivery no matter how complex your environment. Edge Accelerator can flex to meet any network’s needs with three intelligent delivery solutions:

  • Browser-Based Peering – A WebRTC based solution that solves the most common live video delivery needs.
  • Agent-Based Peering – An agented solution that excels at delivering on-demand video and contains advanced security controls
  • Edgecache – A caching solution that brings video closer to the viewer that is useful for businesses that need to reach remote locations or connect with viewers in China

Network Readiness Testing

Once your network is prepared to deliver live events with an ECDN, Kollective’s Network Readiness Test can give you the peace of mind that your next event won’t exceed network capacity. Simulating a high-quality live event that replicates your event’s specific conditions gives you the opportunity to fine-tune prior to the live event. The Network Readiness Test provides detailed data on event performance:

  • Quality of Experience (QOE)
  • Bandwidth Savings
  • Peering Efficiency
  • Reach
  • Duration

Live Event Analytics

When you are ready to go live you can rest assured that you will have the information you need to make adjustments in real-time with Kollective’s Edge IQ Analytics. With an intuitively designed dashboard, Kollective Edge IQ Analytics allows you to quickly find the data you need to:

  • Track employee engagement
  • Monitor stream quality
  • Identify buffering by location
  • Track bandwidth usage

Live event failures can derail your efforts to connect the people in your organization. By incorporating an ECDN, preparing for events with network testing, and using real-time analytics to monitor performance, you can quickly and easily prevent event failures from plaguing your communications. If you are struggling to deliver a successful live video, start a free trial of Kollective’s Browser-Based Peering solution before your next event.

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