Small Business: CA

Onboarding is a journey — it’s a foundational part of the employee experience you offer. In onboarding, we want new employees to feel a sense of belonging, as well as learn what defines their success and what makes your business a successful one. Here are some ideas to give your small business onboarding experience a […]

Welcome to your all-in-one resource for T4s! ‘Tis the season to fill out or generate these forms to hand off to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and your employees, so we thought it’d be handy to have the information you’ll need in one place. Whether you’re doing so manually or using a payroll software like […]

Updated January, 2022. Together — income tax, federal taxes and provincial taxes — are all grouped under the bucket category of payroll taxes (employer taxes and/or source deductions).

While British Columbia (BC) has various legislation around taking time off, starting January 1, 2022, British Columbians will now be able to stay home if they have a personal and unexpected illness or injury. The good news is they won’t have to worry about it affecting their pay cheque! This comes after almost two (2) […]

Recently, we introduced our Year-End Survival KITs (KIT stands for Keep It Together) to small business owners and the accountants and bookkeepers who support them — but despite all the preparing you can do, we all still experience tough days from time to time. Even if you’re a member of the world’s friendliest payroll team. […]

Business owners of all kinds are reopening their doors and welcoming customers again as we’ve entered a period of lockdown restrictions lifting. This calls for bringing back your team, and maybe even hiring new members of your team. But, you don’t want to hire just anybody. You want to secure top-talent employees who can strengthen […]

The topic of constructive feedback is widely discussed, but in practice, it’s rarely done right — if at all. It’s not surprising that negative feedback is often avoided. After all, throughout our lives we’ve been taught that if we have nothing nice to say, not to say it at all. Giving feedback challenges this idea […]

There are few payroll tasks that feel as heavy and complex as having to let an employee go. It’s a critical time for any small business that requires an easy, fast and reliable process for generating a Record of Employment (ROE) so that employees can collect benefits quickly and employers can have the peace of […]

Quick Links Request the report Business resilience defined What the numbers and businesses say The 2021 Canadian Small Business Resilience Report. As we look back on the events of 2020 and the ongoing social and economic impacts, narratives will be dominated by the word “pandemic.” However, as our research has uncovered, conversations about the past […]

Wagepoint has always been a remote company. From day one, we’ve been challenged with being a great place to work while being far apart from each other. It’s not an easy feat — especially when the love is real for all of our team members. Here are five tools and programs we implemented to motivate […]

Payroll, it’s one of those “common sense” things most of us just accept at face value. You do your job and you get paid for what you do. However, when a major shift happens — like a global pandemic — payroll software companies, like Wagepoint, are a “canary in the coal mine” in terms of […]

“Teamwork makes the dream work.” The first step to making the dream work is also having the right people on your team. The second is ensuring your team members are meeting their fullest potential. Sounds simple — but sometimes things are easier said than done. We teamed up with Nora Jenkins Townson and Caitlin MacGregor, founders of […]

This article is for small business owners who need an easy accounting and bookkeeping system. (My fellow accountants and bookkeepers might also find this helpful in terms of building their own technology stack (tech stack) and making recommendations to your small business clients.)  Do you look at your kitchen table with a sourpuss face dreading […]

Empowering your employees to perform at their best is a key aspect of your role as a manager. It ensures that the company, with the collective effort of its employees, achieves its short-term and long-term goals. However, employee management is not as straightforward as it sounds. To be an effective leader, you’ll need to develop […]

In a recent report, Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup said, “The single best activity for any team leader to deliver is not employee satisfaction, but rather employee development.” The same report also found that for employees to be engaged at work, four needs must be met: Basic needs: “I have everything I need […]