Strategic & Sustainable HR

We hosted our first virtual NPS panel with twenty customers in attendance. 

The filing and payment deadline for Income Tax Self Assessment is 31st January 2022. HMRC have announced that this deadline will be extended, to reduce pressure caused by Omicron related staff shortages.

A step by step explaining how to hire a new worker from outside the UK.

An additional £30 million in emergency funding has been made available through the Culture Recovery Fund to support museums, cinemas, theatres and heritage organisations with the impact of the Omicron variant this winter.

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.

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 way we work has changed dramatically and continues to evolve. With increased workforce flexibility, mobilisation and focus on employee experience, HR must embrace digital transformation. Talent technology is ‘revolutionising the game’ by automating and optimising processes throughout the employee lifecycle. Cloud-hosted software reduces CapEx, overheads, human error and ensures compliance. Data is at the heart of strategic HR, enabling talent development aligned to business objectives, and helping employees be the best version of themselves. 

Payroll is more than salaries: discover how a strategic approach drives digital transformation and enhances the entire employee lifecycle.

Celebrating an anniversary is always fun, and your 75th anniversary really shouldn't go unnoticed. "We need to celebrate it with lots of fun initiatives, all year round, both for our employees and for our customers" was the motto at the start of 2020. And so we rolled up our sleeves and went back to the drawing board: the campaign "SD Worx 75 – Let's Make Sparks Fly" was born!

On Saturday 31st October, Boris Johnson announced new lockdown restrictions affecting the UK in response to increasing Coronavirus cases.

Achieving gender equality and diversity is a priority for smart business leaders. 

UK organisations with 250+ people are now required to calculate and share statistics on the gender pay gap (measured by hourly pay, bonuses and on the proportion of male and female employees in each pay quartile) but improving gender equality and diversity goes beyond publishing figures.

Focusing on the analytical capability of the Payroll and HR functions, this blog outlines the power of your people data to help create a fairer, inclusive and more productive workplace.

When the Covid-19 lockdown began, The Economist claimed this pandemic would thrust HR and its leaders into the spotlight. It suggested chief people officers would need to play a role similar to that of the CFO following the financial crisis of 2007-2009. “Never before have more firms needed a hard-headed HR boss,” it stated.