{"id":1001806,"date":"2026-09-09T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/asures-2026-hr-benchmark-report-finds-compliance-confidence-collapsing-at-americas-small-businesses\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:23:33","slug":"asures-2026-hr-benchmark-report-finds-compliance-confidence-collapsing-at-americas-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/asures-2026-hr-benchmark-report-finds-compliance-confidence-collapsing-at-americas-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Asure\u2019s 2026 HR Benchmark Report Finds Compliance Confidence Collapsing at America\u2019s Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAsure\u2019s annual study asks what growing companies do differently from shrinking ones. This year, the finding that jumped out was something else: business owners are far less certain they are complying with employment law than they were a year ago \u2014 and the erosion reached every kind of company.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Asure Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASUR), a provider of payroll and HR solutions for employers and enterprise payroll tax and treasury infrastructure, released its 2026 HR Benchmark Report at its annual Asure50 Awards event, finding that small-business owners have lost confidence they are complying with employment law. Among companies having a down year, certainty on some compliance questions fell more than twenty points in a single year.<\/p>\n

Each year the survey asks small-business leaders whether they follow forty HR best practices, then compares companies that grew with those that shrank. Seven questions ask something different \u2014 not whether leaders do a thing, but whether they\u2019re confident they\u2019re doing it right. This year, those seven told the loudest story in the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall business owners aren\u2019t getting sloppier \u2014 the ground is moving under them,\u201d said Pat Goepel, Chairman and CEO of Asure. \u201cWhen even the companies that are growing are less sure they\u2019re compliant than they were last year, the problem isn\u2019t that owners stopped caring. The problem is that there\u2019s more to keep track of every year, and fewer people to keep track of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n What the report found<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n