National Payroll Week 2023 takes place on the 4th to the 8th of September and is dedicated to recognising and celebrating the work that payroll team members do. Usually responsible for ensuring the smooth and accurate payment of employees, payroll departments are a vital part of business operations, and this is a time to highlight the work they do.
So, how can you use National Payroll Week to celebrate your payroll employees? For large organisations with a myriad of departments and employees, it can sometimes feel like the personal touch is lost. This makes it even more important to highlight the great work payroll teams are doing, often behind the scenes and without much fanfare.
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- Human Resources
Having a high staff turnover can be devastating for a business in terms of expense, morale and the loss of expertise. The recruitment process is incredibly expensive with high recruitment fees, management time and onboarding all contributing to costs that you would do well to avoid.
Businesses that have a high turnover often find that this is accompanied by a resulting reduction in staff morale for the people who are left behind as they struggle to cope with expertise leaving the building and the extra work they have to take on.
With this in mind, we wanted to put together a mini-guide to reducing your staff turnover with some actionable things you can do to make sure you hang on to the people who make your business successful.
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- Human Resources
We speak to CIPP expert, Samantha O’Sullivan to explore the current landscape of payroll and how businesses can avoid costly pay errors.
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- Human Resources
For many HR and payroll professionals, investing in a payroll bureau service is a no-brainer. For others, it can feel like a daunting task deciding on the best way to manage complex and time-consuming payroll processes beyond an in-house team - or instead of a full payroll team.
In this article, we take a closer look at what a payroll bureau service is, how it works, key benefits and how it compares to fully managed payroll outsourcing and in-house payroll software. This will help you make the right decision for your business.
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- Human Resources
For the first few months of the pandemic, organisations were in crisis management mode dealing with the immediate impact of the changes. However, almost two years in, organisations have started to look to the future.
Sven Elbert, Senior Analyst for Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent at Access People partner Fosway Group, explores the ten digital HR trends that will emerge in 2022 and beyond.
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- Human Resources
Many people leaders are all too familiar with the additional HR challenges that can arise at Christmas time, from constant enquiries about payday to dips in productivity, last-minute annual leave requests and potential Christmas party fallout.
But that’s all in the Christmas past for many, who likely manage (and therefore pre-empt) any festive related HR issues in their HR software. So that’s Christmas present handled too.
But how do HR managers prepare for a Christmas future yet to come, and avoid being haunted by failed HR strategies that came before? Can you judge how successful your HR strategy has been this year for example, and make decisions on where to focus next year?
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- Human Resources
The big theme for our virtual event Access All Areas this season has been about energising engagement – improving the sense of participation, pleasure and involvement that your employees hold from working at your organisation. I caught up recently with one of our customers about their experience improving and enhancing employee engagement.
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- Human Resources
Recently, Access People were invited to participate in the CIPP National Payroll Week roundtable event to discuss how market forces are shaping payroll departments of the future. High on the agenda was technology and how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for payroll teams to start automating transactional tasks.
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- Human Resources
Travelling towards simplification
The prospect of changing your HR and payroll software could be intimidating. At this point, you can choose your metaphor. Perhaps it seems like you’re going to be turning a tanker around. Maybe it’s more akin to trading in a dated but familiar, family car. Or, the perceived complexities might make it feel like you need to get a space rocket off the ground – a moonshot project. Whatever your outlook in this respect, it’s crucial to ask yourself why you need certain software now, but also to identify both your current needs and where you need to be in a few years. In short, to know where you are and where you want to get to.
The average HR and payroll software is changed somewhere between every seven to nine years and with the right people and purpose steering the project, a simplified system can be truly liberating. So don’t let the fact that you’ve always done things a certain way constrain you and do ensure you have the right people involved. Let’s take a look at some of the factors to consider and the things that can help when you’re planning to change your system.
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- Human Resources
Once more unto the avoidance of breaches…
As we all know, nothing is certain in life except for death, taxes and the pressures of compliance. With time moving us towards a new financial year then, let’s take a look at some key regulatory areas to be aware of in the weeks and months ahead.
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- Human Resources
