Your registered agent is just someone in another location that is authorized to accept mail for you. That's it.

If you work remotely for a company based in New York but you live and work outside of New York, then you pay taxes as if you're a New Yorker.

Because some of a company's most sensitive and highly-regulated data flows through the HRIS, very few people get full insight into everything that’s happening in the platform. HR software is a pretty blind item. You don’t get to try before you buy. Even with the providers who give you a sandbox, it’s hard to get a true sense of performance until you have live data.

So, if the posters are free, what’s the actual protectable intellectual property in these companies? How do they differentiate their product? What’s to keep someone else from, like, offering the Nebraska minimum wage poster for 5¢ less?

The Workplace Posting Strike Force isn’t going to kick down your door and drag you to jail for not posting a Polygraph Protection Act notice in your break room. Labor posters serve to show that the company let employees know about their rights.

How does this even slip through? For THREE YEARS? Part of it had to do with a quirk of how taxes work in reciprocity states like Wisconsin. Part of it was because state agencies don’t talk to each other. And implementation teams aren’t tax experts. And some payroll providers don’t have enough error flags for situations like this. And humans are flawed. They make mistakes.

Here’s the only thing you need to know about this law: Don’t fire people for not coming to work when they run out of PTO until they’ve missed at least 4 days of work. That’s all it means.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you threw five cats in a bag and asked them to run your payroll? Or have you already tried Paylocity?

So, what do you do if your company accommodates remote work and one of your employees emigrates? Voluntarily? You have two choices: They become a contractor or Hire an employer of record (EOR)