When companies grow, HR operations face pressure that simple spreadsheets and informal processes cannot handle. What works for a team of 30 people often collapses when you reach 100, 200, or more employees across multiple locations. The scaling HR challenges most...
Sarah Mitchell
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About the author
Her passion for payroll content began when she noticed how frequently small businesses struggled with recurring compliance questions and wage calculation errors — not due to complexity, but due to unclear or inconsistent information. She set out to create content that replaces complexity with clarity and gives SMB operators confidence in their payroll processes.
At Payrun, Sarah develops educational content covering payroll accuracy, wage compliance, HR workflows, and people-first operations. Her writing emphasizes clarity, practicality, and compliance alignment, helping founders and HR teams navigate payroll with ease.
When she’s not writing, Sarah enjoys researching labor policy updates, mentoring early-career HR professionals, experimenting with documentation formats, and exploring Colorado’s mountain trails with her two dogs.
Latest blogs from the author
How To Stay Compliant With Payroll Regulations In 2026
Payroll regulations are the rules that tell employers how to pay employees, withhold taxes, and report earnings to government agencies. These rules come from federal, state, and local governments. They cover wages, hours employees work, payroll taxes, benefits, and...
Top 10 Best Recruitment Software In 2026
Your hiring success depends on choosing the right recruitment software. The market moves fast - top talent vanishes in just 10 days. Modern recruiting platforms help organizations streamline and improve their hiring processes. Our evaluation of multiple systems...
Ultimate Recruitment Software System For Faster, Smarter Hiring
Hiring has evolved beyond spreadsheets, emails, and disconnected tools. A modern recruitment software system centralizes the hiring process within one platform that supports recruiting teams, hiring managers, and agency recruiters. Instead of switching between other...
Payroll Compliance Mistakes: 10 Costly Errors (and How to Avoid Them)
A single missed tax code update. One late RTI submission. A pension contribution was calculated from the wrong earnings figure. These might sound like minor slips, but in payroll, small mistakes rarely stay small. Payroll compliance is one of those business areas...
Payroll Tax Compliance: A Practical Guide For Growing Employers
Running payroll sounds simple until you realize every pay period comes with a stack of tax obligations, filing deadlines, and regulatory requirements that can trip up even experienced business owners. Payroll tax compliance is not just an annual checkbox. It is an...