Paper and payroll just seem to go together sometimes. Paper time cards or timesheets, paper forms such as Forms W-4 and W-2, paper checks and pay stubs, paper reports, and returns. It seems like it is a never-ending stream of paper with no way of stopping it. Or is there? In reality, you can stop or at least slow down your use of paper in the payroll department. By going green you not only reduce your department’s and thereby your company’s carbon footprint but better yet, save money. By getting rid of the paper, you can increase your department’s efficiency and decrease overall long-term costs. Some of these efforts will involve upfront costs for systems or for your time to create and implement changes while others can be done immediately by taking advantage of improving technology offered by others. Even introducing just a few of them will reduce the number of papers in your department.
Getting away from paper use in business is both good for the environment and the company’s bottom line! So, finding ways to eliminate paper use in the payroll department is something every business should consider. Finding the right methods to decrease or eliminate paper in your day-to-day payroll operations while ensuring that proper compliance requirements are met can be done in any department if you are know-how!