Does payroll make your employees happy?

February 2, 2017
Payroll plays a critical part in any business. Get it right and you’ll make your employees happy. Get it wrong and you’ll be heading for trouble. Don’t provide a simple way for those employees to get payroll errors corrected and you’re in a heap of tro ...
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Can work make you sick?

February 2, 2017
Can Work Make Your Staff Sick? Ways to Tackle ‘Presenteeism’. There is a lot of concern over absenteeism in the workplace and its costs in terms of productivity. But it is increasingly being recognised that ‘presenteeism’, where sick staff struggle into work, may be even more ...
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ISO accreditations complete four in a row for IRIS FMP

January 30, 2017
Leading Payroll and HR services provider IRIS FMP has just achieved re-accreditation across four key ISO disciplines, in a first test of processes following the merger of Bond Payroll Services, Bond HR & Payroll Software and IRIS FMP  into one entity in August 2016. The f ...
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Is Payroll Outsourcing about cutting cost?

January 19, 2017
It’s the question often asked of any outsourcing decision, but in payroll, is payroll outsourcing about cutting cost? “Can we save money by outsourcing?” While the drive to cut costs is important for all businesses, how you decide to carry out payroll processing – in-ho ...
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How will SME owners get a work life balance in 2017?

January 16, 2017
A survey from business loans specialist Liberis in November 2016 gives much food for thought for hard pressed small business owners. But amongst the doom and gloom of reducing costs, Brexit complexity, American presidential decisions, and the age-old issues of competing again ...
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NCVO Trusted supplier status for IRIS FMP in 2017

January 12, 2017
IRIS FMP will continue to be a NCVO Trusted Supplier and the charity sector in 2017, helping support the sector through providing insight and advice in our areas of expertise, driving efficiencies and giving the sector relevant and value for money products and services. NCVO ...
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HMRC staff – We'll love you more

January 10, 2017
With the BBC reporting that up to 38,000 staff from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC staff) will be expected to move large distances as part of the planned digitisation programme, isn’t it time we started loving these people a little more. And IRIS FMP Payroll Services want to le ...
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How to avoid post Christmas HR trauma

January 9, 2017
Christmas is over. The decorations are down. And you’re left with a New Year headache dealing with all manner of staff matters and HR challenges. How do you deal with the HR trauma? Okay, you got it wrong Christmas 2016. Alcohol fuelled events may have happened which yo ...
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Will your payroll be on the edge in 2017?

January 5, 2017
Will your payroll be on the edge in 2017? At what point should you consider a change in payroll processing within your company, whether you currently work in house, or process your payroll through an outsourced payroll provider? All too often companies hit a crisis before mak ...
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Next profit warning should be wake up call for retail payroll

January 4, 2017
High street fashion retailer Next’s dismal Christmas trading and outlook for 2017 will send a cold wind through the rest of the British retail sector as we get into 2017. It provides a wake-up call to retail payroll teams to get their act together, in what could be the start ...
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Great New Year resolution. Get a new payroll job

December 28, 2016
Christmas 2016 is over and thoughts turn to the New Year. Is it time to get a new payroll job? For payroll people December is always a challenging make or break month, when hitting the payroll deadline is even harder as you work towards the early Christmas break, and staff ex ...
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Top seven tips for better employee financial wellbeing

December 19, 2016
Employee financial well-being has been one of the hot HR topics for a number of years. in 2017 an increasing number of organisations will prioritise the physical and mental well-being of their employees. An element of well-being strategy that been neglected however is Financi ...
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