Happy birthday to our Blog

By Brittany Llorente Media Marketing Associate The Greenshades blog turned one year old, this week, and we have had an incredible year. Here are the stats: 80 blogs published Over 85,000 site visits Over 20,000 visitors And we are just getting started. Here is a look...

Let’s paint a picture of the ACA

By Chris Hadden, CPP Technical Sales Manager   A picture is worth a thousand words. We’ve all heard this before, right? While this may be true, after working with the Affordable Care Act law the past couple of years, I’m not sure this statement applies to the...

Four ways Greenshades can save you time: Part 4 – Year-End Forms

By Brittany Llorente and Chris Hadden, CPP At Greenshades, we have become the solution to turn to for simplifying the year-end process. Due to our focus on high customer satisfaction, every year, the amount of forms that we have hosted and printed has increased from...

Will this be a win for Minor League Baseball?

By Chris Hadden, CPP Technical Sales Manager   Employers are up to bat when it comes to overtime changes. Growing up in Jacksonville, FL, most of my summertime memories are filled with baseball. Whether I was playing catch in the front yard, or up to bat in the...

Are you ready for January?

By Chris Hadden, CPP Technical Sales Manager January 2017 just might be the busiest one month of our lives. 91 days’ worth of work must now fit into 31 days. For years, January has always been the craziest month of the year for me. And while holidays such as National...

Overtime exemption rules and how they impact your business

By Chris Hadden, CPP Technical Sales Manager   We’ve been blogging about it, tweeting about it, and planning for it since Q3 2015. However, it still seems almost surreal that the overtime exemption rules are changing. Just a minor change? Certainly not. After the...

What to expect when you’re expecting

By Chris Hadden, CPP Technical Sales Manager My wife and I are expecting our first child this summer. While I am beyond excited, I’m also panicking just a bit. It is to be expected, right? While many of my waking minutes at this point are either preparing our house...

Which fields are required to save a record?

By Chris Hadden, CPP Technical Sales Manager   When I first began using GP, I always struggled to remember which fields were required on various windows. I spent far too many months being frustrated, continually seeing the annoying pop-up message of ‘Not all...

5 Things to Consider in a Payroll System

By Chris Hadden, CPP Technical Sales Manager   Payroll is something that most people take for granted. No one ever even seems to notice what’s going on in the Payroll department. That is until something is wrong. As a payroll professional, it’s up to you to do...

Happy Birthday, leaplings!

By Chris Hadden, CPP Technical Sales Manager Leap Day is upon us! Not only does this mean that Happy Birthday is in order to all ‘leaplings,’ but this also brings potential challenges and questions to businesses and their employees. Do you have any salaried employees?...