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HR and Payroll Case Studies

Access People solutions have more than 3mill users from 18,000+ commercial, public sector and not-for-profit customers across the UK, Ireland and Asia Pacific.

The stories below bring to life how our customers have overcome business challenges working with Access People to improve HR, payroll, reward and recognition, and employee experience operations.

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Our Customer Success Stories

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Hymans Robertson

Financial services  |  1,000 - 2,500 employees |  HR and payroll, Learning, EarlyPay

In 2014, Hymans Robertson adopted new software solutions. However, over the following decade, as the company grew and expanded globally, these solutions became obsolete. Consequently, the HR team pursued modern, flexible, and scalable solutions to accommodate the ongoing business expansion, selecting Access as the vendor of choice.

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Wilmington plc

Professional services  |  1,000 - 2,500 employees |  HR and payroll, Learning, EarlyPay

Recognising the benefits that Access People could offer, Wilmington invested in our integrated HR and payroll software, learning management system, on-demand pay solution and screening systems, so it had one seamless solution for its 1,000 employees - as well as one source of truth for all data.

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Arbuthnot Latham & Co

Financial services  |  <1,000 employees  |  HR and payroll, Learning, Health & Safety

After encountering difficulties with its previous HR and Payroll provider, Arbuthnot Latham implemented Access PeopleXD to streamline processes and enhance efficiencies. Now, Access PeopleXD - along with other utilised Access products - can be accessed via a single sign-on to provide a single source of truth based on consistent and up-to-date data. 

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N Brown Group

Retail industry  |  1,000 - 2,500 employees  |  HR and payroll, Learning, Volcanic

N Brown Group transformed its HR processes with Access PeopleXD to streamline operations and enhance the employee experience. The investment in a Premier Customer Success Plan has provided tailored support and FlexPoints to maximise ROI.

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Charles Tyrwhitt

Retail industry  |  1,000 - 2,500 employees  |  HR and payroll, EarlyPay, Volcanic

Since initially investing in Access’ technology, Charles Tyrwhitt has selected additional software products to meet its developing and evolving business’ needs and objectives. All brought together under a single sign-on.

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Reach plc

Media industry | 2,500-5,000 employees  |  Reward and recognition

Using our reward and recognition technology, we’ve helped Reach plc boost engagement, platform registrations, reward over 4,000 employees across the UK and ROI and raise over £50,000 for charity in the process.

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Livv Housing Group

Not for profit industry  |  <1,000 employees  |  HR and payroll

Find out how Livv Housing has been able to automate 60% of payroll activity with Access PeopleXD to free up 1 FTE’s worth of capability to reallocate to more value-add activity.

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Yü Energy

Utilities industry  |  <1,000 employees  |  HR and payroll, employee benefits, learning

Yü Energy is an Access Group customer using Access PeopleHR, Access Learning, and Caboodle. Here is Yü Energy's story on the benefits realised since using Access People's solutions.

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PTSB

Financial services industry | 2,500-5,000 employees  | HR and payroll

Since 2002, PTSB has scaled their Access PeopleXD system to include our Payroll, People Management, Recruitment, and Workforce Management modules, and also use our Access Career Development software to support employee development.

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SCC

Media industry | 1,000-2,500 employees  |  Employee benefits

Birmingham-based IT specialists SCC came to us looking to harmonise and revitalise their benefits offering to suitably reward their team, improve engagement, recruitment and retention.

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FullCircl

Financial services industry |  <1,000 employees  |  Employee benefits

Working with Caboodle, FullCircl delivered their brand-new bespoke branded benefits platform to staff “in no time” with a wide range of employee benefits and scalable features included, a dedicated app, boosting engagement in the process.

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Blenheim & Pye

Hospitality and leisure industry  |  <1,000 employees  |  Employee benefits

To reward their staff appropriately, Blenheim & Pye wanted a bespoke platform and internal branding that hosted all their existing perks and benefits as well as a plethora of new ones to appeal to all their team members.

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David Ross Education Trust

Education industry |  1,000-2,500 employees  |  HR and payroll

Since the implementation of Access PeopleXD, David Ross Education Trust has seen a considerable reduction in absence-related errors, an increase in visibility of staffing data and reduction in the time taken to produce reports.

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Day Lewis Pharmacy

Retail industry | 2,500-5,000 employees  |  HR and payroll

Access PeopleXD will support Day Lewis Pharmacy with developing their talent management, reduce administration tasks such as the processing of expenses, and boost employee engagement through employee and manager self-service.

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COOK

Manufacturing industry | 1,000-2,500 employees  |  HR and payroll

COOK implemented Access PeopleXD to replace their outdated HR system with an integrated, streamlined solution to cope with the substantial growth of the business.

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Acacium Group

Health and social care industry  |  1,000-2,500 employees  |  Employee benefits

Access Engage has expanded its market-leading employee benefits platform internationally by extending Acacium Group’s bespoke flex platform to its US and Ireland teams.

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Cineworld

Hospitality and leisure industry | 5,000+ employees  |  HR and payroll

Access People provided Cineworld with a fully integrated system that drove cost savings, saved senior management time and provided real-time actionable data to overcome strategic business challenges.

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The Doctors Laboratory

Manufacturing industry | 1,000-2,500 employees  |  HR and payroll

The Doctors Laboratory implemented Access PeopleXD to overcome their legacy HR processes as they had no mobile functionality and everything was paper or email-based, which exposed them to potential errors and overpayments.

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Silver Cloud

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Silver Cloud, one of our HR partners, joined our Director of Sales, John Wood for a chat at the Festival of Work 2022. Take a look at the interview to find out how we collaborate with one another to create a long term, sustainable partnership that delivers value to our customers.

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Grafton Group

Manufacturing industry | 5,000+ employees  |  HR and payroll

The Grafton Group were using over a dozen systems to manage payroll, timesheets and benefits, all of which didn’t integrate with each other. Since adopting Access People’s cloud-based platform, the Grafton Group have seen significant improvements in key areas of the business.

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University of Hertfordshire

Education industry | 5,000+ employees  |  HR and payroll

Access People helped the University of Hertfordshire with their overdue digital transformation away from paper-based systems to improve business effectiveness.

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The Co-operative Bank

Financial services industry | 2,500-5,000 employees  |  HR and payroll

By adopting Access PeopleXD’s HR and Payroll services, the Co-operative Bank have been able to achieve cost savings in excess of £1m, exceeding one of the original objectives of a 40% reduction in system/service costs.

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Virgin Money

Financial services industry | 5,000+ employees  |  HR and payroll

Following the acquisition of Virgin Money UK by Clydesdale Bank, Virgin Money UK needed to undertake efforts to integrate the two entities, and securely migrate colleagues from a legacy HR system onto the Access PeopleXD platform.

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Arvato Financial Solutions

Financial services industry | <1,000 employees  |  Reward and recognition

Apart from ad-hoc awards ceremonies at social events, Arvato did not have a company-wide mechanism for boosting employee recognition and motivation. Access Applause supported in providing a solution.

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Harlow College

Education industry | <1,000 employees  |  HR and payroll

Learn how Harlow College brought their organisation together through our HR and Payroll solution, utilising one source of information with accurate reporting to help them reduce the admin and focus on their priorities.

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Travers Smith LLP

Legal industry | <1,000 employees  |  HR and payroll

Travers Smith LLP implemented Access People's HR software to replace a time-consuming manual system to increase data accuracy, streamline and automate their processes, and ultimately save them over 7 weeks' of time on HR and Payroll tasks.

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Helping Hands

Health and social care | 1,000-2,500 employees  |  HR and payroll

Access People provided Helping Hands with a full suite of solutions and effortless single sign-on for busy staff, to ultimately achieve greater efficiencies to their central operations.

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Radiocentre

Not for profit industry | <1,000 employees  |  HR and payroll

The commercial radio trade body, Radiocentre, invested in Access People's absence management software, TeamSeer, to relieve pressure on their IT and Finance teams.

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Hachette UK

Media industry | 1,000-2,500 employees  |  HR and payroll

The UK's leading publishers chose Access People to replace their complicated existing absence management system with Access TeamSeer, so the HR team can focus on more strategic tasks and projects.

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Tearfund

Not for profit industry | 1,000-2,500 employees  | HR and payroll

Access People delivered an integrated HR & payroll solution for global charity, Tearfund, to improve their business efficiency, connect their teams and increase employee engagement and productivity.

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Samuel Estates

Construction and real estate industry | <1,000 employees  |  HR and payroll

After deciding the HR team were spending too much time on absence management, Samuel Estates decided Access TeamSeer was the solution to streamline the process.

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LINLEY

Manufacturing industry | <1,000 employees  |  HR and payroll

Access TeamSeer helped to reduce workload and save the HR team approximately 20 hours a week on time-consuming on admin tasks, so that the luxury brand could continue to maintain its high standards.

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