Payroll

Deel Local Payroll has launched embedded payroll payments, giving UK businesses a simpler, more secure way to pay employees directly from the platform. The new capability lets payroll managers and bureaus run payroll and pay every employee...

Work has changed. Hybrid teams, remote workers, global contractors, real-time expectations. The demands on payroll, HR, and finance have multiplied. But a lot of payroll software hasn't moved with them. The 2025 Deel Australia Payroll...

Earned Wage Access (EWA) lets employees draw down a portion of their earned-but-unpaid wages between paydays. The model has grown rapidly across global markets as a financial wellness tool — particularly for employees living paycheque to...

Switching payroll providers feels like a big decision, and it should be. But sticking with the wrong one is more expensive than most teams realise. The slow erosion of trust, the workarounds that compound, the legislative updates that...

Employee turnover is one of the most-talked-about HR metrics and one of the most misunderstood. Calculated well, it tells you where the business is leaking talent and how much it's costing. Calculated badly, it produces numbers that feel...

Microsoft has moved to three days a week in the office. Amazon to five. Other employers have stayed fully remote. The headlines treat this as a culture war, but the practical question for most businesses is simpler: can the HR and payroll...

AI and chatbots are revolutionising self-service. But are you selecting the right technology? Which expenses can I claim for reimbursement? Can I have a copy of my payslip? How do I apply for leave? Many companies want to automate the...

Manual payroll looks like the cheap option. No software licence, no subscription, no implementation cost. But the accounting logic stops there. Every error in a manual run creates rework. Every compliance update that's missed creates...

When businesses go global with payroll, they face an early choice that shapes everything that follows: do you run the payroll yourselves on self-service software, or do you outsource it to a managed payroll provider? Both models have...

Deel Local Payroll powered by PaySpace, um provedor líder de soluções inovadoras de folha de pagamento, e PMóvel, um nome proeminente em soluções de Ponto e Acesso (T&A) no Brasil, anunciaram hoje uma parceria comercial estratégica. Esta...

As we kick off 2025, it’s an opportune moment for businesses to reflect on their HR and payroll strategies and set ambitious goals for the year ahead to revitalise company culture and align teams towards common objectives. Here’s how...

In 2025, many companies in the UK will face the challenge of adapting to a constantly evolving UK HR and payroll environment. Updated laws, changing employee demands, and technological advancements- staying on top of this is essential for...

Why do companies experience new possibilities when they connect payroll and HR systems? While most companies focus their energy on optimising processes and productivity, they often overlook a crucial pairing. HR and payroll both focus on...

Most employee self-service portals exist in places employees never go. Web logins that need a password reset. Apps that need installation. Email reminders that get lost. Meanwhile, every employee in your workforce uses WhatsApp every day....

The UK Employment Rights Bill, introduced in 2024, represents one of the most substantial reforms to UK employment law in over a generation. For businesses operating UK payroll — whether headquartered in the UK or running UK operations...

The payroll profession has changed faster in the last five years than in the previous twenty. Cloud-native platforms have rewritten what the day-to-day work looks like. Compliance has become more complex as legislatures across Africa...

Scaling payroll across multiple countries is where most businesses hit their hardest HR and finance problems. What worked in one jurisdiction breaks in the second, and by the fourth or fifth country, every manual workaround has compounded...

The annual EMP501 reconciliation is the most significant statutory submission in the South African payroll calendar. It reconciles every monthly EMP201 declaration submitted across the tax year against the year-to-date IRP5 totals for...

Load shedding reshaped how South African businesses think about operational continuity. When the power goes out for two, four, or six hours at a time, every business function depending on local infrastructure grinds to a halt. Payroll...

Payroll generates a huge volume of data. Reports turn that data into something a CFO, HR director, or compliance officer can actually use. The best payroll teams are fluent in three categories of report: statutory (what the law requires),...

Running payroll in South Africa means handling three statutory withholdings, two annual submissions, and a calendar of legislative changes that updates after every February budget speech. The framework is well-defined — but the details...

Botswana runs a territorial tax system and has no national social security scheme. For payroll teams new to the country, those two facts shape almost every decision about how income is taxed and what contributions are required. Here's what...

Payroll system software is the platform that calculates employee pay, applies statutory deductions, generates payslips and tax certificates, and produces the submissions required by tax authorities. It sits at the intersection of HR...

White-label HR and payroll software lets you deliver payroll services to your clients, or employees, under your own brand, without building the underlying technology from scratch. For accountants, bookkeepers, HR consultants, and...

A payroll administrator is the person who makes sure every employee in a business gets paid the right amount on the right day, with the right deductions, every cycle. It sounds simple. The reality involves tax law, employment contracts,...

Companies of every size and in every industry have a lot on their plate when it comes to tax-related paperwork. While it is often an arduous task, ensuring accurate submission and meeting SARS deadlines is one of the most important...

Payroll looks simple on the surface. Calculate what people are owed, pay them on time, file the right returns. The reality involves tax law, statutory contributions, retirement schemes, medical aids, leave accruals, and a payroll cycle...

The cloud computing market keeps expanding for a simple reason: it works. Adopting cloud frees up IT budgets, delivers projects faster, and removes the capital outlay of owning infrastructure. For payroll and HR specifically, moving to the...

For businesses running payroll in multiple African countries, tax year alignment is a surprisingly complicated problem. South Africa runs March-to-February. Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana run January-to-December. Rwanda, Tanzania, and others...

The benefits of the cloud have been well documented. Cloud solutions are accessible anywhere, are more flexible, offer agile service, there is no hardware to maintain, no manual backups to keep on top of, no more paper-based processes, and...

The Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) is one of the most underused tools in South African payroll. Implemented on 1 January 2014, it was designed to encourage employers to hire young job seekers, a group hit hardest by structural...

When COVID-19 hit South Africa in 2020, the job market for payroll and HR professionals changed overnight. Companies froze hiring, retrenchments climbed, and skilled people found themselves out of work through no fault of their own. In...

Running payroll in one African country is one set of skills. Running it across 10 is another. The legislative rules, contribution ceilings, reporting formats, and statutory submissions vary in every jurisdiction — and the payroll...

Payroll data is some of the most sensitive information your business holds. Bank details, salaries, ID numbers, medical aid dependents, retirement nominations: all of it sits in the same file. Most providers will say your data is safe....

PaySpace, a cloud-native Payroll and Human Capital Management software solutions, announced that it has been selected as the preferred cloud service provider to former Sage Managing Director for Africa and the Middle East, Anton Van...

Managing employee leave can be an onerous task. Requests come through constantly and someone has to respond to them, make sure that staff don’t all take leave on the same days and record the various dates in the company’s payroll system....

Moving payroll and HR to the cloud isn't a technology project. It's an operating model change. Done well, it automates time-consuming tasks, reduces administrative load, and gives employees self-service access they've wanted for years....

Managing your company’s payroll doesn’t have to be an administrative nightmare. The bigger the enterprise though, the more onerous the job is. Payroll managers at multi-national organisations have to pay close attention to a variety of...

December is when leave management either looks like strategic workforce planning or like a mess. Everyone wants the festive break off. Some clients still need cover. Statutory rules don't pause. And the questions HR gets in mid-November —...