There have been many publications about the Good Work Plan over the past 18 months and it can be confusing to work through complex, legislative documentation to understand how you stay compliant. While the good work plan covers many topics, this blog aims to take you through one aspect of this, Holiday Pay, and asks the simple question – are you ready for the changes?

With summer just around the corner, businesses face the inevitable yearly challenge of balancing an influx of annual leave requests with keeping the company running at full capacity. Absence management is a vital, yet often overlooked part of running a business – get it wrong and the impact of summer holidays can last all year round.

A recent ‘Workplace of the Future’ survey of 250 industry professionals revealed that 88% of CFOs and CHROs expect an increase in payroll technology investment by 2025. Why? The world of work is changing rapidly and to prepare for the workforce of the future, businesses must start adapting, quickly.
 

Businesses are failing to recognise the importance of data managed by HR teams. Equally HR professionals are not yet skilled enough in data to harness its power and help secure their future strategic function within an organisation. Something has to change.

News of poor payroll can spread like wildfire. The sign of a good payroll function is often that it takes place quietly in the background. If it goes wrong however, it can have a catastrophic impact on both employees and the business as a whole.

Welcome to 2019

Everyone remembers the technology from their youth, in my case the 80’s and 90’s. I grew up with mobile phones becoming a must have commodity, with the accompanying generation of speed texters. I also grew up with the emergence of the first affordable home PC, allowing me and my friends the opportunity to explore that new ‘thing’ called the internet. It seems like only yesterday that my modem took forever to dial in, choices in websites were limited, and Facebook was non-existent (founded in 2004).

I just don’t understand why organisations do not see the Living Wage, and I mean the Living Wage NOT the government’s rebranded minimum wage (National Living Wage), as an opportunity.

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To Clock, or not to clock: that is the question.

The words Payroll and Change don’t always sit together comfortably. In fact, for most people, terms like Safe, Risk-averse, Traditional, or Stable fit better with Payroll. This is correct as Payroll isn’t something to mess around with is it? Payroll exists to pay employees accruately & on time. This is why payroll can feel left behind in the race for technology & change.