COMPLIANCE

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Gusto is rolling out a slew of new features, including its own professional employer organization (PEO), to better support small businesses’ compliance needs.

The announcement comes six months after the payroll and HR platform announced it would acquire Mosey, an AI-powered startup tailored to help small businesses with compliance, particularly if they hire out of state.

Gusto’s new compliance tool, called Gusto Business Compliance, is one of the fruits of that acquisition. It includes features that assist with obligations such as state tax registration, tracking government mail, and filing initial and annual reports to Secretaries of State.

There’s no shortage of entrepreneurs seeking to start their own businesses today. But the ever-evolving legal landscape makes it difficult for them to thrive, Gusto contends.

For more on the new offerings, and how Gusto hopes they will support companies’ compliance needs, keep reading here.—CV

      

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HR STRATEGY

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An entrepreneurial spirit is critical to starting a business.

But an intrapreneurial spirit is critical to growing a business. People leaders stand to play an important role in cultivating intrapreneurship within their organizations, according to Justin Pennington, a global transformation executive and author of The Intrapreneur Leader: A Playbook for Next-Generation Human Leadership.

“When we think about entrepreneurs, we think of a certain type of individual, but intrapreneurship really is a capability,” Pennington told HR Brew. “That’s an important distinction for people to understand in HR because, as a capability, it provides opportunity for learned experiences for employees.”

Pennington shared more about his book, and how HR can encourage intrapreneurship, with HR Brew.

For more from our conversation with Pennington, keep reading here.—MC

      

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TECH

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Human capital management (HCM) platforms offer an array of solutions for processes along the employee lifecycle, from hiring to offboarding. They may include features such as payroll, performance management, and learning, among many others.

HCM platforms largely replaced the infamous personnel file and, with it, HR’s filing cabinet. They help HR teams manage their organization’s people data, records, organization structure, and more, and they come equipped with other HR-related management systems that support work in recruiting, onboarding, pay, learning and development, and retention.

HCMs’ utility lies in their ability to bring core HR functions like recordkeeping, benefits administration and onboarding into one platform. These platforms also help drive people analytics with workforce tools and reports. HCM platforms help HR teams not only execute HR company policy and employee programs, but are valuable talent strategy tools.

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Today’s top HR reads.

Stat: Public sector workers in North Carolina now have access to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, up from eight weeks for mothers and four weeks for fathers. (North Carolina Health News)

Quote: “If we don’t get more young people interested in the trades, then all of those training programs are still not going to fix the issues.”—Erin Izen, executive director of The Home Depot Foundation, on why students should learn about trade careers at earlier ages (Scripps News)

Read: Gen Z workers take a different approach to workplace communication compared to previous generations. (Fortune)

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