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Chief Executive officer Jason Davenport MCIPP MloD CIPP Board Of Directors Louise Gray ChMCIPPdip Stuart Hall MCIPPdip Dianne Hoodless MSc ChFCIPP FHEA Editor Lora Murphy editor@cipp.org.uk Advertising Daniel Cull 07795 652645 | advertising@cipp.org.uk Design James Bartlett and Nicole Davis design@cipp.org.uk Printing Redactive
Hello April, it’s great to have the lighter days and warmer weather back. Easter is fast approaching, and I hope the Easter bunny visits you all with lots of Easter gifts. It’s a busy time of year for payroll with year-end activities and
start of year changes, as well as factoring in the Easter bank holidays which fall right in the middle of April this year. These are the months in which we start to feel like we could do with an extra pair of hands. In this issue, we look at technology and how artificial intelligence (AI) and other new technologies could start to help us relieve the pressure of workloads and take away the time- consuming, mundane jobs. Could a bot help your team get on with the complex work, while it sorts all your data transfers? Or could it send out those reminder emails which normally take the team away from answering queries? Some people find AI scary. But we need to embrace the changing world. Remember when uploads and systems took over the data keying of absence and hours? That’s now a data input task which seems like a distant memory for many payroll departments. I hope you enjoy the articles in this issue and remember the CIPP is here to help, so please get in touch or reach out at any of our upcoming events.
Ana Laiu MSc FCIPPdip Brendan Mulkern FCIPP Lara Smart ChFCIPPdip
Brian Sparling ChFCIPPdip Michelle Sutton ChMCIPPdip Cliff Vidgeon BA (Hons) CMA ACG ChFCIPP Clare Warrington MSc FCIPPdip AFHEA
Clare Warrington MSc FCIPPdip AFHEA (clare.warrington@cipp.org.uk) Chair, CIPP
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Welcome to the start of the tax year… I hope all your system testing has gone well, and moving forward to the new tax year is all in hand. For many of you, influencing and ensuring budgets for the coming year, and the increased costs associated with the National Insurance changes will have been high on the agenda for informing businesses you either work in, or serve, as part of an outsourced arrangement.
Our lives now and in the future are being impacted by AI all around us in ways we never considered only a decade ago. Many organisations are now using ‘bots’ to help teams and customers. Indeed, an increasing number of us are using wearable technology on a day-to-day basis, not just to measure steps and monitor our health, but also to take voice commands and help us search for information, regardless of where we might be. This technology availability anytime, anywhere can be overwhelming, so I urge you to take time out when you can and be technology-free if only for a short time, to help reset your thinking. I know I can easily get into surfing apps, and before long have lost time, without anything either productive, or relaxing, having come from it. I’m a rather late convert to podcasts, but am really enjoying them now, discovering the world available to me via this option on my phone. Lots of super listening to be had there. I would love to hear from you about your favourite podcasts, or particular themes you find interesting. Happy new tax year.
Jason Davenport MCIPP MIoD (jason.davenport@cipp.org.uk) Chief Executive Officer, CIPP
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