Why adopting a fully integrated Time & Attendance and HR system could improve your organisation.

High levels of employee absence incur hidden costs on productivity, on quality of service or product and even client satisfaction and loyalty. It can also affect the impact of absence on employees in terms of increased workloads and pressure on present staff as well as on morale. In a recent poll, it was found that UK employees took more than 35 million "sickies" last year, which is the equivalent of every worker taking at least one day off.

Announced Friday 9th of July 2010 London UK

Atlantic Link Ukraine acquires Youmanage Ltd with the express intent to promote and develop the Youmanage online HR toolkit and to develop Youmanage Ltd as a strong and innovative HR SAAS software solution provider in the UK, Europe and the US.

UK companies and HR departments do not have the information they need to make crucial business decisions, new research suggests.

The UK Talent Intelligence Survey from Taleo shows there are significant gaps between the information considered important to decision-making and the data that is available. In all but one type of data, there is a notable gap between the importance UK companies place on certain types of information and the actual access they have to this data.

If you’re looking for, or have just purchased, a new HR system, how will you ensure that the ongoing user training is as effective as it can be? 

Will you control your monetary costs (but not time costs) by having the internal resource to train new users, or will you have to purchase a number of additional consultancy days from your supplier?  Or, ideally, have you considered that your training consultant may be able to provide online training as and when you need it, on a pay-as-you-go service?

Can HR keep up with the pace of self-service technology?

All the evidence points to self-service saving time and money yet take-up remains low and the technology is becoming ever more advanced, so why are HR dragging their feet.

Difficult as it is to imagine, when Apple launched the iPod - its first foray into the consumer MP3 market nine years ago - bloggers and analysts alike gave it a distinctly lukewarm reception. One analyst said it lacked the 'richness of Sony's (its rival) product offering', while another called it 'iPoop'. But despite not demonstrating anything technologically new (MP3s had been out for years), it defied the critics, and mass adoption (it is close to selling its 250 millionth unit) followed.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued an urgent alert to employers in Scotland – important PAYE changes are coming this spring, so make sure you’re prepared for them.

HMRC is writing to all employers in the region this month to remind then that, from this year, they must file their Employer Annual Returns online by the 19 May deadline – there is no longer a paper filing option for small employers with fewer than 50 staff. So, if you file your return on paper, even if it’s before 19 May, you could receive a penalty.