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Covered Topics |
| April 24, 2025 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Establishing a recurring deduction for employee(s) with option to have any missed deductions go into arrears and applied on a future payroll voucher
- Employee self-service access to their own onboarding documents during and after the onboarding process
- Create an anonymous survery through ExponentHR's survey management utility
- Automatic systematic updates to the state level rules/limits for garnishment orders
- Reporting options to see which tax deposits have been processed vs still pending
ExponentHR Tax Management Utility Feature:
- Centralized portal to view all items related to your tax transactional activity and notifications
- Direct access to the various tax-related reports located throughout the ExponentHR website in addition to specific company summary reports, such as:
- Deposit History
- Deposit Analysis
- Liability Analysis
- Ability to communicate directly with ExponentHR tax specialist by creating a ticket (with option to attached notices/documents to each ticket)
- Access to Company Package, with summary of quarterly activity/filings
- Notifcation options to opt in/out of selected notification types from the utility
Coming Soon: ExponentHR Verification of Employment and Income Feature:
- To be released in the coming months: Automated Verification of Employment
- ExponentHR is partnering with Equifax's The Work Number
- Free service offering that will be automatically activated for your organization (unless you choose to opt-out)
- Verifications made available 24/7 to credentialed verifiers with employee consent
- Removes HR personnel from the verfication process
Compliance Items:
- Missouri - New paid sick and safe time (effective 5/1/2025)
- Alaska - New paid sick leave law (effective 7/1/2025)
- Nebraska - New paid sick leave law (effective 10/1/2025)
Recent Enhancements:
- ExponentHR Canny: New enhancement suggestion tool
- New IP Address Restriction Options: Expanded ability to now additionally create a list of pre-authorized IP addresses based on a range of IP addresses or range based on CIDR
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| March 27, 2025 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Displaying job descriptions to employees on the ExponentHR website
- Removal of unpublished items within Document Management utility
- Reviewing the description of an Off-Cycle payroll batch within the Batch Management utility
- Multiple ways to search for employees in employee drop-down lists:
- by Last Name
- by First Name
- by SSN
- by ExponentHR ID
- by Employee Number
- Notifying a designated audience when an employee's home address is updated
ExponentHR Reporting Feature:
- QuickList functionality for customized adhoc employee lists
- Option to merge QuickList report with other standard reports via QuickList templates
- Review of many standard management reports available throughout website
- Custom Reporting Utility
- Quick access to accurate data to help drive business decisions
- Unlimited number of reports, dashboards, visualizations and no associated fees
- Organizing reports by folder and designating favorite reports for quick access
- Results exportable/deliverable to Excel, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and more
- Results automatically refined based on the user's provided permission rights
- Permission rights can be optionally controlled on a report-by-report basis or automatically for all reports placed in a respective folder
- Results may be sent automatically via established schedule, with option to create multiple/varying schedule for same report
- Recipient list of scheduled results can be dynamically managed based on user's functional role
Compliance Items:
- Michigan - New earned sick time act (effective 2/21/2025)
- Missouri - New paid sick and safe time (effective 5/1/2025)
- Alaska - New paid sick leave law (effective 7/1/2025)
- Nebraska - New paid sick leave law (effective 10/1/2025)
Recent Enhancements:
- ExponentHR Canny: New enhancement suggestion tool
- ADA Disabled Employee field added to the EEO-based Hire/Termination reports
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| February 27, 2025 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Using the Payroll Register Report for reconciling Form 941 information
- Option to allow Cost Allocation changes in Time Clock
- Ability to set Holiday Schedules by location
- Employee access of both current and prior year W-2 and 1095-C forms processed by ExponentHR
- Option for ATS integration with multiple video-conferencing applications
ExponentHR - Best of 2024 Enhancements:
- Empower and Engage Employees
- “Entire Paycheck” option for direct deposits
- Show Internal Onboarding Tasks in My Alerts Widget
- Scalability
- ATS utility covers entire employee life cycle
- Text Alerts allow employees to receive Message Center notifications via text
- Create EANs from within an employee’s Personnel Record
- Onboarding for Contractors
- Auto-send Performance Self-Review invitations
- Onboarding Quick Link in Personnel Record
- Force Onboarding in New Hire EAN
- Require removal of position from OSM in Employee Termination EAN
- Restrict creation of new OSM position to HR personnel only
- Provide Access to Critical Business Data
- Custom Reporting utility replaces Business Analytics
- Management widgets added to mobile access
- Add or edit Misc Adjustments on mobile devices
- Review, reject and review Life Events on mobile devices
- Hover over notes icon in Time Clock to view punch notes
- Option to filter on Employees with Leave/Other in Time Clock Review
- Alerts when inactivating a code that is used in Cost Allocation
- Ability to include Keywords in the subject line for EAN Event-Driven Notifications
- Sort and filter on Effective Date field in EAN Summary
- Responses to Changes in Laws, Rules, and Regulations
- Changes to multiple state withholding and reporting requirements
- Ability to append EEO-1/CA CRD results for multi-establishment employers
- Reduction in FUTA tax credit rates for some states
- Earned Income Tax Credit notifications
ExponentHR Enhancement Suggestion Tool: Canny
- Allows management users to suggest new enhancements, vote on existing enhancements and track enhancement progress
- Suggestions are continually reviewed by the ExponentHR product team and prioritized based on feedback
- Email notifications are sent when an enhancement that a manager originated or votes on changes status
- Emails come from Canny.io and may need to be whitelisted by employer IT teams
- Available to all management users on the Management tab > Help (question mark in top right corner of the page) > Suggest an Enhancement
- Three tabs
- Roadmap – displays future consideration, planned and in progress items
- Upvotes displayed next to each item
- Feedback – Add suggestions
- Changelog – Service & Tech Bulletin enhancement items will be added here
Compliance Items:
- 1095-C deadlines to finalize forms (state and federal deadlines)
Recent Enhancements:
- ExponentHR Canny: New enhancement suggestion tool
- Variable Pay & Piecework: New employee assignment option
- QuickList Report: Adding supervisor email address fields
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| January 30, 2025 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Option to designate how many days prior to the pay date that paychecks become visible to employees online
- Various funding options for ExponentHR invoices by company
- Within the EDI utility, view files that are presently in testing status with carrier
- Reporting tools to obtain Form W-3 and 1096 information
- Integration with background check vendors via ExponentHR ATS
ExponentHR Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Feature:
- Integration with personal calendar to help schedule interviews
- Designating and assigning role types to managers
- Template creation to help standardize the applicant process
- Includes items such as setting which questions are asked, required steps, and pre-drafted notifications
- Display job descriptions (pulled from ExponentHR website) for applicants to view
- Dashboard to review and administer current status, action items, and success of hiring efforts
- Easy and convenient ways to toggle through applicants, their provided documentation, and compare to other applicants
- Option to create multiple career sites to separate job openings by company, location, and/or other
- Unlimited number of job openings that can be posted
- Ability to choose which alternate job boards to link to the job posting
- Built-in AI capabilities to aid in the creation of captivating and informative job postings
- Utilize ExponentHR fields/classifications to expedite the filling out of job posting and (eventual) New Hire EAN
- Create New Hire EAN directly from applicant profile if decision is made to proceed with hiring process
- Reporting and dashboard views of key information, such as recruiting sources, trends, applicant activity, overall success, and more!
- In-depth training and resources available by contacting your Enterprise Experience Manager
Compliance Items:
- 1095-C deadlines to finalize forms (state and federal deadlines)
- Maine introduced a new withholding requirement (starting January 1, 2025) per the state's Paid Family & Medical Leave Act
Recent Enhancements:
- ExponentHR Canny: New enhancement suggestion tool
- Option to force manager use of onboarding templates as part of the hiring process
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| December 12, 2024 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Options to reconcile the 941 Worksheet to available payroll reports
- Administering your organizations company's codes manually and/or via automated API/Web Services functionality
- Video conferencing and sharing calendar availability when scheduling applicant interviews through ExponentATS
- Automatic updates within ExponentHR system to provide employees with current (updated) annual updates of contribution limits to HSA, FSA, and retirement plans
- All year-end forms (W-2, 1099, 1095-C) are electronically available to employees (and may additionally receive a mailed paper copy of the form, if selected by the employee)
ExponentHR Payroll Auditing Features:
- Option to receive a systematic warning when reviewing a payroll batch if the gross or net pay amount of the batch/voucher exceeds a designated threshold.
- Payroll batch review provides a variance display, which compares the pending payroll voucher to the employee's prior received voucher.
- Reporting capabilities within payroll batch to assist with confirming accuracy of amounts prior to approving the batch.
Compliance Items:
- Changes to contribution limits starting in 2025:
- HSA: $4,300 for self-only, $8,550 for family
- Retirement: $23,500 deferral limit; Catch-Up an additional $7,500*
*Eligible employees turning age 60-63 in the year 2025 may contribute a catch-up amount up to $11,250 per SECURE 2.0
- Maine introducing a new withholding requirement (starting January 1, 2025) per the state's Paid Family & Medical Leave Act
- Maryland requirement to display business telephone number on pay statements (effective 10/1/2024)
- This is systematically handled by entering company phone number within your Company Configuration
- Minnesota introducing new paid leave wage reporting & withholding requirement starting on October 31, 2024.
- Delaware: New Paid Family Leave State Withholding, beginning in 2025
- CA, NJ, & US VI: FUTA tax credit reduction applied retroactively for all wages that are subject to unemployment insurance and paid to employees in these jurisdictions during 2024
Recent Enhancements:
- New Applicant Tracking System (ExponentATS)
- ExponentHR Canny: New enhancement suggestion tool
- Enhanced usability for managing direct deposit enrollment
- Option to insert keyword (dynamic word replacement functionality) in the subject of company communications sent through ExponentHR
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