GLOBAL PAYROLL MAGAZINE
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Last month, in the wake of National Payroll Week and some frustration over a familiar foe raising its floury head again, the GPA’s CEO Melanie Pizzey made a potentially controversial but necessary post to LinkedIn . Annnd she accidentally started a cake fight! Cake Fight!
We’ve included the post in full here so you can contribute to the conversation - there were some interesting responses and we’d love to hear your take - but also so we can all
learn that just short of 99% love working in payroll.
We could vocalise this love, share pictures of worldwide travel, of a
promotion being celebrated, of awards ceremonies, international conferences and symposia, stories of remarkable projects people have contributed to, the transformations they have led, the new talent they have welcomed and the endless, often unremarked upon, wins that payroll people achieve every single day. But instead, social media feeds are choked with snapshots of cake. Cake, as Mel herself noted, is a splendid thing and the GPA is firmly in favour of unlimited supplies. But it is not a prestigious symbol to share. In the UK, even the WI - a haven for skilled home bakers and handicrafters and the subject of the delightful film Calander Girls - chose to distance themselves from their cake-centric ‘Jam and Jerusalem’ image. Why then is it such
begin to think about a better way forward. National Payroll Week is a fantastic opportunity to bring payroll professionals centre stage, to showcase the myriad benefits of a career in payroll and to celebrate our individual and collective achievements. If we want to attract a new generation into the industry we must be aspirational. For a recent GPA/Safeguard survey we took a deep dive into the perspectives of global payroll professionals. You can learn more about the results in our white paper Payroll as a Career: Insights from Senior Payroll Professionals ; they were truly heartening. A significant majority of our respondents have been working in payroll for over 10 years (nearly 50% for more than 20) and it was wonderful to
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