As business owners in the early stage of growth, you may feel as though you’re under pressure to manage and streamline numerous human resources responsibilities—especially if you’re taking on a number of different roles within your organization. But from inefficient documentation processes to ever-changing laws and regulations, neglecting such responsibilities could potentially put your business at risk.

While it’s common for small-business owners to take on multiple roles, it does present its challenges. There are ways, however, to simplify your process for managing and executing tasks, all while remaining compliant.

How to streamline your human resources duties effectively

While you’re in the midst of business growth, HR can serve as your company’s greatest asset. By putting an emphasis on HR development, you will ultimately strengthen employee relationships, shape a strong company culture, and spearhead performance and talent management. Communicate developed policies to create clarity, boost productivity and ultimately get every aspect of your business up and running effectively, around the clock.

If you’re wondering what all of these HR responsibilities have in common, it’s simple: when all responsibilities are running at their fullest potential and being checked off your list, they will serve as an influential component to company growth. But perhaps the issue isn’t in your colleagues’ not seeing the value of HR—it’s instead in your executing all of the tasks you’re responsible for that potentially cause a bottleneck where growth is concerned.

Boost your bottom line by automating critical tasks and responsibilities

Payroll administration is a challenging process for businesses of all sizes. Once you reach the point where you’re struggling to handle the nature of payroll in-house, you do have a solution: consider an outside resource. By automating your payroll, you can seamlessly gather data on critical information, such as employee time and attendance. In addition, you will have the option to outsource the daunting tasks, including the preparation and filing of all state and federal quarterly and year-end payroll filings and reporting.

By automating your payroll and other HR duties you can ensure that your company has everything in order so you can spend more time growing your business in areas that need your full attention. More specifically, HR automation streamlines the multitude of functions required to manage employees and comply with the law, two requirements that are a must for any successful business.