Key takeaways The organisational skills gap is a business capability issue: It is the difference between the skills your organisation needs and the skills currently available in your workforce. Skills gaps are increasing: 55% of HR leaders say skills gaps have increased in their organisation over the past 2 years. Hiring alone will not solve … [Read more…]
Later on this year, a new law could force employers to publish salaries in every job advert, something that a lot of businesses and HR teams have historically avoided. When you think about the principle behind it – saving candidates time, ensuring fair compensation – it’s hard to argue with. But, as with everything in … [Read more…]
In partnership with Smart Data Foundry and The Centre for Economics and Business Research, Sage has published its latest SME Monthly Workforce Pulse research. This is drawn from anonymised payroll data from approximately 200,000 small businesses and provides unheralded insight into pay across the UK. The data is part of Data for Good, Sage’s commitment to help Small … [Read more…]
Employer of record pricing is one of the most asked questions in global hiring and one of the least transparently answered. Most EOR providers won’t publish a number on their website. They’ll direct you to a sales call first, which makes it almost impossible to compare options before you’ve already spent time in a demo. … [Read more…]
Most small business owners have their routine. They check their bank account, then their accounting software. Then they try to remember which transactions they’ve categorised, which invoices still need raising, and whether that VAT return is actually due when they think it is. Your customers are going through this right now and if your product isn’t solving it, they’ll move to one that is. Because the solution exists. Their bank has the transaction info, receipts may live … [Read more…]
Payroll fraud prevention is one of the most overlooked disciplines in UK business finance. Not because organisations don’t take fraud seriously, but because payroll fraud rarely looks like fraud when it starts. It looks like a small discrepancy. An approved overtime entry that seems slightly high. A pay rate that changed without a clear record … [Read more…]
Through a growing network of 36 fitness and community programmes, Club Doncaster Foundation is changing lives in a town that has historically faced some of the most persistent health inequalities in the country. From tackling physical inactivity to addressing social isolation and mental health, the Foundation demonstrates what a football club’s infrastructure can achieve when … [Read more…]
Every summer, the same thing happens. Multiple people request the same week. The person who manages the rota, whether that’s HR, the office manager or a line manager doing their best with a spreadsheet, ends up in the middle of a conversation nobody wants to have. The problem isn’t usually that employees are difficult or … [Read more…]
Key takeaways Multifactor authentication (MFA) is being added to all HMRC agent accounts during 2026. Early opt-in activation is possible, or you can wait until it’s switched on for all accounts in later 2026. Web sign-in for your agent services account (ASA) and online services account (OSA) are affected, but not things like sign-in for … [Read more…]
When the rota works, nobody notices. When it doesn’t, everyone does. June is when the summer staffing problem tends to surface. School holiday dates are now fixed. Employees are starting to book flights. And the manager responsible for the staff rota is realising they haven’t set up the framework to handle what’s coming. A summer … [Read more…]