As a new survey shows most rail commuters are using train Wi-Fi to send work related emails, should employers and their payroll departments be worried or grateful? If you’ve been a rail commuter this week, you almost certainly sent or replied to an email or two on...
Show me the money?
Why do fewer workers in the UK do it for the love of the job? How many people on your payroll come into work every day because they love what they do? According to a new survey reported by the CIPP, it’s not as many as our European counterparts. 62% of payroll workers...
Why you are the greatest risk to your payroll data’s security
We don’t mean you specifically of course, but with GDPR now in force and security and encryption improving constantly, the common denominator in payroll data security breaches is likely to remain human error. In 2014, a former employee of Morrisons leaked the payroll...
Are payroll loans the answer to payday loans?
According to a new report by CIPP, if more companies offered payroll loans, UK workers could save more than £250 million. For many workers across the UK, every month is just that little too long. When the previous month’s wage packet is exhausted, more and more people...
Whose payroll are you on?
You’re not an accountant. All you know is that a company has promised to place you on its payroll and ensure you get 95% of your earnings. If that’s you, it’s probably time to change your payroll arrangements, fast. Last month, we reported on the legal fight between...
Rationalising global payroll
A new report suggests that, no matter what synergies are in place elsewhere in the business, most international companies have distinct and disparate payroll arrangements. For any business operating in multiple territories, ensuring your products or services are...
The perfect payroll storm – a hospitality case study
How a growing threat from Airbnb combined with the Brexit effect is creating payroll problems for the hospitality sector. It’s in the nature of disruptive market entrants to, well, disrupt their respective market. Whether that’s Netflix shaking up the way we consume...
Is your payroll fit for 2018?
Payrolls need to be more flexible, more agile and more secure than ever before. Is yours? It might seem like an odd question. After all, if your payroll managed to take you through a trouble-free 2017, why should anything be different for the year ahead? Yet if 2017...