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Groundwork

Groundwork is the compliance platform we are building for growing employers: every obligation organized, every action logged, timestamped, and provable. It is not available yet.

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Concept preview of the Groundwork dashboard: a sidebar of areas (People, Calendar, Onboarding, Offboarding, Training & Credentials, Policy Management, Regulatory Updates, Self-assessment), counts of overdue items, items due this week, policies awaiting acknowledgment and trainings lapsing soon, a self-assessment result with 90-day activity, a table of upcoming deadlines, recent regulatory updates and a 14-day compliance calendar. All data shown is sample data.
The Groundwork dashboard. Concept preview; the company, people and numbers are sample data.An early concept of Groundwork as it takes shape. Details will evolve as we build, and the list sees each new preview first.

A closer look.

Three parts of the dashboard, up close, and the idea each one is built around. Every name, date and number in them is sample data.

Organized

Every obligation in one place

Federal and state requirements mapped to your workforce, with owners and due dates, so nothing lives in someone’s head or a forgotten spreadsheet.

In the close-up

  • Upcoming deadlines for every employee, sorted by due date.
  • Rows name the person, their role, the item, its module and when it is due.
  • Past-due items marked in copper, with the number of days they are late.
Close-up of the concept’s Upcoming deadlines table, sorted by due date: ten sample employees with their ID, job title and status; nine also have an item, module and due date. Three items are marked days past due. All data shown is sample data.

Scroll the close-up sideways to see every column.

Logged

Every action on the record

Work is logged and timestamped as it happens, so the story of what you did and when writes itself while you work.

In the close-up

  • Each federal update with its date and what changed. These are made-up examples, not real rule changes.
  • Who acknowledged it, and on what date.
  • Older updates kept on file as archived history.
Close-up of the concept’s Regulatory Updates panel: three made-up federal updates (a Form I-9 edition, an EEOC poster and a minimum wage posting), each with the date it was acknowledged and who acknowledged it. Sample data, not real rule changes.

Provable

Ready when someone asks

When a question comes, you can show exactly what was done and when, without a scramble the night before.

In the close-up

  • A self-assessment result beside the one before it: 9 of 12 onboarding controls documented, up from 6.
  • Obligations closed on or before their due date over the last 90 days.
  • Policy acknowledgments and training completions logged in the same 90 days.
Close-up of the concept’s Self-assessment and Activity panels: 9 of 12 onboarding controls documented, up from 6 of 12 at the previous assessment, and 90-day counts of obligations closed on or before their due date, policy acknowledgments logged and training completions logged. All data shown is sample data.

What the concept covers.

These are the areas in the concept preview’s sidebar. Each one will change as we build.

  • People

    Who is active, on leave or separated, with a count of each.

  • Calendar

    Federal and Florida deadlines on one calendar.

  • Onboarding

    I-9 windows, E-Verify and new-hire reporting, for each hire.

  • Offboarding

    COBRA notice, final-pay timing and access revocation, for each separation.

  • Training & Credentials

    In-service hours and credential dates.

  • Policy Management

    Policy versions, acknowledgments and re-acknowledgment cycles.

  • Regulatory Updates

    Federal updates with their history kept, and who acknowledged each one.

  • Self-assessment

    How many controls are documented, with the previous result beside it.

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Monthly federal and state HR and compliance updates now, dashboard previews as they land, and early access to Groundwork when it opens.

By joining, you acknowledge The Common Ground Brief is general HR and compliance information, not legal advice.