the sea and the little port of Lynmouth. The mid- afternoon sun glittered on the water. This had been perfection. I took a few shots with my phone to WhatsApp to my sister and Pilar. I don’t know how many steps took me down to sea level and the town again, but my kneecaps were about to go on strike by the time I got there! 8.55 a.m. Back in my room, I checked my messages: Email from Tanya and Pete suggesting Tuesday 1st September for dinner at 7.00 pm, location to be decided. Agreed. Thank-you WhatsApp from my sister asking if I’d pop in on her where she lives in Sidmouth before I went back. Email from Mahira checking my availability for September and October. October! Yikes, Christmas was only a hop and a skip away.
why would people want to pay me when they could get results online? Clearly, it’s more complex than that, as every client has specific issues, but the future trend was all too clear to see. It was a question of putting together some alternative ideas. I’d already written a few guest articles about where HR and HR tech could change. I just needed to follow my own advice. I should suggest that Pete, Tanya and I meet up in town one evening for dinner. It had been a while since our last steeper, and I was feeling pretty warm, so I took off my pullover and slung it over my shoulders, glad of the shade. My mind wandered on as I climbed. The Cambridge client had opted for a reasonable solution: an integrated HR, payroll and time & attendance product that had open APIs and also iPaaS links, in-person catch-up. The climb got much
both of which would open the door for extra modules later. It was a solid choice, and they were suited by the time module, which coped with both their remote workers, who could ‘punch in’ by logging on and solved their supervisors’ need to edit clock records. Additional bonuses were a really handy real-time display of who was where for each division, and an activity analysis so labour on each work stream could be studied. We’d written a brief and run a data cleanse, which surprisingly didn’t turn up too much inaccurate stuff. On my advice, they’d taken on a project manager to navigate them through the configuration and implementation phase. That sort of project work always requires a professional. The high spot of the walk had been, before beginning the return leg via a long downhill set of steps, a lookout point over
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