Payroll Professionals Must Prepare for Crises After Covid-19

Payroll professionals should prepare for future crises after the Covid-19 pandemic and establish crisis response teams that can respond to disaster emergencies in real time, a payroll professional said May 12.

Most payroll professionals were unprepared for Covid-19 and did not have established policies in place to protect their operations, said Stephanie Salavejus, vice president and chief operating officer of PenSoft. The few that were prepared did not anticipate the Covid-19 pandemic to last over two years, she said.

“How do we pivot when a crisis is long-term?” she said. “Going on for two years, I’ve read that some states ...