According to our latest Future of Work and People research, operational efficiency is the top priority for HR leaders in 2021, with work-life balance close behind. The biggest challenges facing HR are staff well-being, employee experience, and the war for talent. So, it’s no surprise to see the need for greater digitalisation and automation rising on the priority list, as HR leaders look to get the basics right so they can focus on the strategic.

Staff absence management is one of a payroll manager's most time-consuming tasks and it can be challenging. There are a number of different types of employee absences - from sick pay to bereavement leave, paternity leave to holidays, the list is long.

Gig is hot. It’s estimated that 5 million people in the UK alone make a living from the ‘gigs’ they do. Should all contracted workers fear for their jobs? Equally important: what can employers learn from (mainly) youngsters’ thirst for freedom – to do whatever, whenever? Simon Parsons, Director of UK Compliance Strategies at SD Worx, explains.

Whilst outsourcing payroll can deliver a wealth of benefits for most businesses, it’s still important to double check it’s the right option for you. 

In recent years, businesses have had to keep pace with changes in momentum. They have been forced to mobilise a remote workforce, sometimes operating across numerous locations. As the pressure to adapt increases and businesses respond to fluctuating demands, having oversight of an entire workforce is more necessary now than ever before.

If you’re outsourcing crucial business functions such as payroll, you need to keep an eye on KPIs to ensure you’re receiving the efficiencies or savings you were promised. 

Keeping employees healthy, stress-free and productive is always a challenge – the workplace is constantly presenting little obstacles here and there that make human capital management difficult. But things get especially tough during the holiday season.

The first part of our latest series of webinars discussed the gender pay gap, and looked at how your company can analyse and act on your data effectively.

Rapid and irreversible change during the pandemic saw businesses scrambling to adapt at a speed not seen before. While underlying, fundamental changes have been occurring for some time, the need to change is now becoming urgent, says HR expert Luc Bossaert from Adessa (part of the SD Worx Group).

Workforce management software brings numerous benefits to your organisation. From giving your teams more time to spend on strategic tasks, to being confident they’re working with the right data, and preventing workload imbalances. These are significant gains for your organisation as a whole, but what about your employees? How do they benefit from workforce management – what’s in it for them?

There are key differences between local and international human resource management (IHRM) that make managing HR from an international position more complex. When the workforce is distributed across different countries and tasks are performed in a different context, requirements for HR have additional considerations. We take a look at what the differences are, and how they can best be managed.

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit Europe in the spring of 2020, HR process automation and digital transformation were clearly not a top priority, attested to in our survey: The Future of Work and People in Europe 2020. It’s not surprising, given the unknown extent of the impact on employees’ health and wellbeing, in addition to the economic consequences. Organisations had far more pressing concerns; keeping employees healthy and economic survival naturally became the immediate and main priorities.