SaaS-based human resources, payroll, and financial management product maker Workday Inc. has released Workday 16, which offers more than 128 new enhancements and features including HTML5 for mobile.

Small business owners are losing some of their optimism and planning to do less hiring in the months ahead, according to a widely cited survey by the National Federation of Independent Business.

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CBIZ said Thursday that its Small Business Employment Index for March indicated the highest month-over-month growth in hiring since June 2010.

Employment at small businesses increased in March at the highest rate in over two years, according to payroll figures from Intuit.

Optimism is growing among small business owners, according to a survey by payroll provider SurePayroll.

Private sector employers added 209,000 jobs from February to March, according to the latest national employment report from payroll giant ADP, in the latest sign of a slowly recovering economy.

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Halfpricesoft has added Form 941 for the employer’s quarterly federal tax return to its ezPaycheck small business payroll software.

Staffing company Accounting Principals has released its list of the top 10 cities to find a finance job.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job of documenting whether it completed all of the necessary pre-screening steps before hiring new employees, according to a new government report.

CBIZ is reporting a slight increase in hiring at small businesses in February.

The economy continued to gain jobs last month, with another 227,000 added in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, although the unemployment rate remained unchanged from January, at 8.3 percent.

Staffing levels in accounting and finance are anticipated to stay fairly steady in the second quarter, according to a survey of CFOs by staffing company Robert Half International.

Employment in the private sector rose by 216,000 from January to February on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the monthly national employment report from payroll giant ADP.

Small businesses continued to create jobs in February, particularly in hard-hit states, but the pace of job creation is slowing down.

Hiring was up slightly, by 0.04 percent, but paycheck size declined slightly by 0.2 percent, from January to February, according to payroll provider SurePayroll.

With concerns mounting over the upcoming Presidential election and the Eurozone crisis, CFOs are tempering their optimism about economic growth and relying more on temporary employees in their hiring plans.

The Internal Revenue Service released a revised Form 941 on Thursday to allow employers to properly report the newly extended payroll tax cut, which has now been extended through the end of the year.