I recently helped with a migration off of a PEO. The client was frustrated with all the ways that the PEO was curtailing their decisions and all of the extra work it involved. “Extra work?” you ask. “But PEOs are supposed to save work.” That’s the myth.

Like you can just tap them on the shoulder and hand them the phone. “Excuse me, Mr. Zuckerberg. Can you please talk to this guy Doug in Minnesota?”

What would happen if you combined the gonzo journalism ethos to labor posters? What if someone went around posting rogue meal and rest break posters in Walmart bathrooms? What if you snuck into construction sites at night to plant lawn signs of OSHA Cares? What if you snuck into hotel laundry rooms to post minimum wage posters in Spanish?

People sometimes use the terms HR and People Ops interchangeably. But when they do differentiate, they put the wrong people in the wrong seats.

I can’t stand it when people insist on unnecessary steps. Especially if those unnecessary steps are self-defeating.

This year, as you wallow in anxiety waiting for the tax team to get back to you, I have a fun project for you. Make sure your state payroll tax settings are correct. This is the only time when it DOESN’T feel irrelevant and boring. So Take advantage of it.

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.