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HR admin tasks THE RESULTS of a recent survey undertaken by SD Worx, a leading provider of global payroll and human resources (HR) services, reveal that broadly one in two UK employees (56%) are completing basic HR admin tasks on their own device rather than a work device. The survey, which looked into the extent of the digitisation of the workplace, found that such usage is far more common amongst employees under age thirty. Brenda Morris, managing director of SD Worx UK and Ireland, commented: “Businesses have to make efforts to make the personal and working lives of their employees easier. If they do not, engagement levels will suffer and people will leave for a company where their expectations are met.”
Dayforce platform enhanced CERIDIAN, A global HCM technology company, has enhanced Dayforce, its flagship cloud software, by extending the functionality and breadth of the platform. The introduction of Dayforce Assistant enables employees to manage their work-life activities with a simple voice or chat command; and Dayforce On-Demand Pay provides organisations with more choice over how and when to pay their employees. Erik Zimmer, chief strategy officer, Ceridian, said: “Our approach has always been to simplify the work environment for our customers and their employees.” fantastic news and a step in the right direction. With the legislation coming into force, organisations now have the chance to be completely transparent with their workers, this will reduce the confusion employees face when looking at their payslips.” Women at risk of being underpaid ACCORDING TO recent research by ADP, a leading global technology company providing human capital management (HCM) solutions, almost one in three women (30%) do not always check or even understand their payslips, and wouldn’t realise if they were paid incorrectly. With the Office of National Statistics (ONS) recently reporting that women make up 55% of zero- hours contract workforce (http://bit.ly/2E1FpGj), they are most likely to be affected by inconsistencies in their pay. The ADP Workforce View (http://bit.ly/2vRYBBU) research surveyed over 10,000 employees throughout Europe, to investigate how employees feel about current issues in the workplace and the future of work. The research reveals that industries generally dominated by women, such as healthcare and retail, catering and leisure, are the sectors where employees are least likely to realise if they were paid incorrectly. Around a third of people in the healthcare sector (35%) and retail, catering and leisure sector (32%) said they wouldn’t realise if they were paid incorrectly. When comparing unpaid overtime, the survey finds that 18% of women work up to five hours a week for free in contrast to only 10% of men. Simultaneously, both men (29%) and women (30%) work six to ten hours unpaid, while men (4%) tend to do more free work than women (2%) when looking at those that work an extra 21–25 hours. Jeff Phipps, managing director at ADP, observed: “With one in three women saying they find their payslips confusing, the report highlights that there are still gaps when it comes to pay, equality and transparency in the workplace. “The introduction of itemised payslips legislation is
T&A system PEOPLE FIRST introduced time and attendance into its platform giving businesses an efficient and convenient way for their employees to record working time and location anytime, anywhere from their smartphones or browser. The solution, which is particularly suited to businesses that pay staff on an hourly basis or for those with salaried staff that are paid overtime, feeds into the payroll system. Anton Roe, chief executive officer (CEO) at People First, says: “Through People First, we wanted to create a system that was as easy as possible for employees and managers alike. One that is so intuitive you don’t need any instructions to use it and eliminates as many manual and boring processes as possible.” UK procrastination nation A STUDY of employees in 28 different broad fields of work in the UK econ- omy determined how long they each spend on fifteen common work-de- laying activities daily. Workers in the UK spend almost three hours of their working day procrastinating, with the average person wasting £10,605 of their employer’s money every year. The study’s information was used to create the ‘procrastination calculator’ (http://bit.ly/2LyKGvc), which allows people to enter their own salary and how long they typically spend on each of the procrastination activities, to find out how much of their employer’s money is spent on them each year. It also makes the time more real by showing the equivalent tasks that could be completed in that time.
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