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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...

How changes to the Code of Good Practice on Dismissal modernise labour management. People are at the centre of every business. They bring perspective, ideas, skills, and experience that help companies excel and succeed. However, it doesn’t...

This will be the year that human resources settles into its strategic role. HR management has transformed since it first appeared in the early 1900s. Dashboards, data, self-service and other technology-powered features save time, improve...

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...

Accurate, timely payroll affects costs, tax compliance, and employee morale, and many businesses assume that keeping it in-house is automatically the better choice. In today’s environment, that assumption can prove expensive. Clinging to...

Which expenses can I claim? Can I get a copy of my payslip? How do I apply for leave? These are the routine questions admin teams field constantly, and automating them through self-service is an obvious win: it frees up payroll and HR...

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...

Many payroll operations still miss out on modern capabilities, single-source-of-truth data, automation, employee self-service, and AI, because of understandable concerns about security, compliance, and confidentiality. Ageing systems feel...

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...

Where are the skills gaps in your business? What does it cost to hire and onboard someone? How should you forecast overtime, bonuses, or upcoming expenses? The answers exist, hidden inside the data your HR and payroll systems already...

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...

A year after being acquired by Deel, PaySpace has officially become Deel Local Payroll, powered by PaySpace. This is more than a name change; it is the next step in the strategic vision behind the acquisition. Customers keep the same...

Employee benefits are a major part of compensation in Brazil and a key tool for attracting and keeping talent. Their tax treatment, though, varies a great deal, and getting the classification wrong risks penalties. Here is how the most...

Enterprise resource planning software has been a cornerstone technology for decades. But ERP belongs to an earlier era, and holding onto an ageing system increasingly does more harm than good. When one major South African bank needed to...

The start of a new year is a natural moment to reflect on your HR and payroll strategy and set ambitious goals, the kind that revitalise company culture and align teams around shared objectives. It is also a moment that is easy to waste on...

Payroll is one of the most critical parts of running a business, and in Brazil, where labour and tax laws are complex and strict, mistakes can lead to heavy fines and legal trouble. These are the five most common payroll errors Brazilian...

UK employers face a constantly shifting HR and payroll environment in 2025, with updated laws, changing employee expectations, and new technology to keep pace with. Staying on top of it is essential to managing people well and keeping...

Most companies pour energy into optimising processes and productivity, while overlooking a pairing that sits right in front of them. Payroll and HR both centre on employees, yet they have traditionally been kept separate, partly by...

For UK businesses, compliance with HMRC is essential, and a large part of it comes down to submitting statutory reports accurately and on time. These reports give HMRC the detail of a company’s payroll: employee earnings, tax deductions,...

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....

For UK businesses of any size, managing payroll and meeting HMRC requirements can feel daunting. Ever-changing regulations, manual processes, and the fear of penalties make it a burden it does not need to be. The goal is to streamline...

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 relationship between payroll and HR has long been one of function rather than strategy. Payroll is seen as an administrative necessity, processing wages, handling benefits, and managing compliance, while HR drives people strategy,...

Payroll reporting is one of the most complex jobs a business faces. Juggling databases, manual entry, and the risk of error eats time and invites costly mistakes. Automated reporting offers a way out, turning a chaotic process into a...

Salaries are one of the largest costs a small or mid-market business carries, yet smaller teams are often the least equipped to handle complex payroll. The good news is that cloud-native platforms now put the same capability large...

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...

Many businesses assume that because their data sits in the cloud, it is automatically backed up and recoverable. It usually is not. A cloud provider backs up its own service to keep it running, which is not the same as backing up your data...

Many businesses find themselves wrestling with over-complicated payroll software, bogged down by the demands of extensive customisation. There is a better path. A well-configured system, built on a feature set that already covers most...

The business world changes constantly. New regulations, evolving workforce needs, and unexpected events all force organisations to adjust quickly, sometimes at very short notice. The question is whether your payroll and HR processes can...

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...

In March 2024, Deel acquired PaySpace in what was, at the time, the largest acquisition in Deel's history. The move was significant for two reasons. First, it was one of the rare cases where a young Employer of Record (EOR) company bought...

Payroll demands accuracy, efficiency, and compliance, and the cost of getting it wrong, in late payments, legislative missteps, or tax errors, is steep for both morale and the balance sheet. The traditional, manual approach ties up skilled...

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...

If you employ staff in South Africa, you are required to submit an EMP501 reconciliation, and it is important to get it right and not miss the deadline. This guide covers when the EMP501 is due, what it reconciles, and the details you must...

Tax season puts pressure on individuals and businesses alike, and the last thing anyone wants is to miscalculate and underpay SARS, which can set off a chain of queries, investigations, and penalties. A tax calculator takes much of the...

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),...

Deel Local Payroll started as PaySpace in a Johannesburg garage in 2002. Four founders came from a background in international payroll software and saw the same thing from inside the industry: the products were built on decades-old...

Small business tax in South Africa feels like a burden, but SARS does offer relief for those that qualify. If your company meets the small business corporation (SBC) criteria, it may pay tax at lower rates than a standard company. Here is...

Payroll software in Namibia is widely available and still under-used. Run by hand, payroll is slow, detail-heavy, and unforgiving: an inaccurate or late submission can cost a business real money in penalties and interest. Namibia adds its...

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...

Every payroll provider claims their software is reliable, accurate, and compliant. In practice, most of them are. So why do customers still switch? Because when something breaks (a tax calculation goes wrong, a submission fails, an...

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...

Payroll is time-consuming, detail-heavy, and, with a large headcount, easy to get wrong, especially once it becomes repetitive enough that attention slips. That is where payroll software earns its place, removing the human element from the...

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,...

Payroll is a craft as much as a role. The software changes, the legislation changes, the reporting formats change. A payroll administrator who stops learning falls behind within a year. Online training is the most efficient way to close...

However you approach it, payroll is complicated, and the repetitive parts are where mistakes creep in. Automating payslips brings more accuracy, saves money, and lifts a time-consuming task off your team. Here is what a payslip is, and how...

In a digital world, it is surprising how many businesses still run payroll on manual processes, juggling spreadsheets and re-checking figures by hand. Online payroll software offers a set of benefits that are hard to overlook. If you are...

Payroll is a time-consuming, detailed, and often stressful task, and a single mistake is easy to make. You have to get the calculations right and make the correct payments, because errors hurt compliance, unsettle employees, and slow the...

Every organisation wants to do well and keep its best people. The ones that manage it tend to share two traits: a culture employees genuinely live by, and a strong customer focus. Culture is not a poster on the wall. It shows up in values,...

Innovation tends to arrive in waves. The economist Joseph Schumpeter called it “creative destruction” back in 1942: old models give way to better ones. Artificial intelligence is the current wave, and it has disrupted industry after...

The events industry has transformed. Five years ago, a payroll conference meant flights, hotels, and a printed lanyard. Today, most professional events run a hybrid model: in-person for those who can attend, virtual for those who can't....

Tax paperwork is a heavy responsibility for companies of every size, and meeting SARS deadlines is one of the most important parts of it. Every six months, South African employers submit their interim reconciliation, covering IRP5 or...

The interim PAYE employer reconciliation comes around every year, and it has a reputation for being laborious and time-consuming. In practice, it is straightforward when your data is in order and your payroll does the heavy lifting. Here...

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...

Africa is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent, with 54 countries and a wealth of languages, cultures, and legal systems. Technology and innovation are unlocking its economic potential, opening new markets for...

A multi-skilled workforce is more adaptable and more resilient when ways of working change, and the events of recent years made that plainer than ever. Building one is not about sending everyone on the same generic course; it is about...

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...

The shift to remote working happened quickly for organisations everywhere, and while the move went reasonably well, it surfaced challenges that are easy to underestimate. Rolling out remote working across a whole organisation is more...

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 are well documented: accessible anywhere, flexible, no hardware to maintain, no manual backups to keep on top of, no paper-based processes, and no large upfront capital outlay. Combine the cloud with outsourcing...

Cloud adoption has gone mainstream, with research showing around 94% of organisations have some kind of cloud strategy. But a lot of what's sold as cloud is actually legacy software repackaged with a web interface. The difference between...

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...

The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) took full effect in South Africa on 1 July 2021, after more than a year of grace period for organisations to get their house in order. Payroll and HR sit at the heart of POPIA compliance...

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...

The businesses that came through recent crises best had one thing in common: they were prepared. They had made the investment in cloud infrastructure, remote-capable systems, and flexible operating models before they needed them. 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....

Cloud payroll is talked about everywhere, but the term covers very different things, and the difference matters for compliance, security, and cost. This piece explains what true cloud payroll actually is. What “true cloud” means. True...

A security breach damages a company’s reputation and carries real financial cost. Payroll is a prime target, because it holds precisely the personal and banking information attackers can monetise or use to impersonate people. As...

Digital connectivity is changing how African companies and governments do business, and digital tax returns are becoming more common as more countries bring financial services online. South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, and Kenya were early...

Managing employee leave is one of those tasks that quietly eats into the working week. Requests arrive constantly, someone has to check that teams are not all off on the same days, and the dates have to be recorded accurately in the...

There are good reasons to outsource payroll. A single global solution lets you manage payroll across multiple locations through one contract instead of juggling a provider in every country, which cuts the administrative load sharply. It...

Tax season puts pressure on employers and payroll managers, and how you have calculated payroll taxes through the year determines whether employees hit problems when they file. With refund delays and changing tax codes in the mix, accuracy...

Running payroll across Africa is full of opportunity, but each country has its own tax rules, thresholds, and tax year, and a misread regulation or a missed change can mean penalties. Keeping all of that straight from a single generic...

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....

Companies expanding into Africa usually arrive with good intentions, including following the law precisely. That is harder than it sounds. Payroll compliance across the continent is complex and easily misunderstood, and non-compliance...

Payroll administration does not have to be a nightmare, but the larger the organisation, the heavier it gets, with local legislation, regulatory requirements, and employees across time zones all to manage. If administration is crowding out...

South African tax year-end falls on the last day of February. The weeks before are when good payroll teams pull ahead and avoidable mistakes get baked in. This checklist covers what to verify, what to reconcile, and the deadlines that...

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 —...