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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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,...

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 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...

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),...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 —...