GLOBAL PAYROLL MAGAZINE
03
Foreword
One of the privileges of being at the helm of the GPA is the ability to spend time with some of the people I admire most in our global payroll community at the events we run around the world. We closed out September in Sweden, celebrating payroll and accounts, and began October with the GPA Payroll Symposium in London. Further symposia in Dubai, South Africa and Dublin will soon follow and I am so excited to share space, time and ideas with old friends and new. We are able to invite global payroll professionals to these events free of charge thanks to the support of our sponsors. I’m grateful that their generosity allows us to bring people together. It’s a fantastic reminder of how closely connected we all are by our values and passion for payroll and our desire to continue to learn and grow, despite the miles between us.
It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and our expert contributors are here with articles to keep you aware and prepared . This month will also see many of us mark Halloween and, in honour of the spooky season, some of our writers have turned their thoughts to the chilling side of payroll. Ayşe Nazmiye Uça shares her Implementation Horror Story and is refreshingly frank about the lessons she learned. While in her cover story Trick or Treat ! Zennie Sjölund entertainingly walks us through the things that go bump in the working day and helps us avoid our industry’s spooks and ghouls. Halloween can be a messy time and the GPA’s feature story this month involves a Cake Fight I inadvertently started on LinkedIn when I shared some frank thoughts of my own. I’ll be very interested to see how many of you are with me on this one. The GPA team is firmly on the side of keeping cake behind closed doors, we’d love to see your cake take in the comments!
CEO Global Payroll Association Melanie Pizzey
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