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CIP Sponsors MrZapCat charity event – Powerboating round the UK with no stops … and only one arm!

Computers In Personnel are proud to announce that we’re sponsoring Neil Bainbridge, who will be piloting his “Gemini Zapcat” power-boat around the UK in order to raise funds for two major charities – CLIC (Cancer and Leukaemia in Children) and the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution).

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Managing Information and Change in HR: A Webster Buchanan Survey

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Key findings include:

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Ciphr : What is a Paylink and how does it work?

There are usually two options for this to happen:

1. Produce a report that can be sent to payroll staff to manually enter the changes.

2. Use a Paylink module that transfers the changes that have recently occurred in to the payroll system.

We have several paylink modules and each one is created to fit a different payroll application. For all other payroll applications we have a Universal Paylink . Some Paylink modules will only send changes or newly inserted records to the payroll where as the Universal Paylink will send the entire record even if only one field has been amended.

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Free Payroll Briefing Paper : Balancing Cost and Service Quality

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Read the Payroll briefing paper below, or download a PDF copy.
Executive Summary

With payroll departments under relentless pressure to cut costs and improve efficiency, this Briefing Paper examines what options are open to organisations looking to make both short-term and long-term improvements. Focusing on the difficult balance between reducing costs and maintaining service quality, it argues that organisations should weigh up a combination of strategic and tactical steps. In particular, the Paper argues that:

Feeling stressed? You’re not alone!

“At the end of 2008, SkillSoft UK Ltd carried out an online survey designed to examine the levels of stress UK workers were under. We were keen to establish what made people feel stressed at work and what they thought would be the main contributor to their stress levels in the coming year.

We were interested to find out what percentage of UK workers have been off work due to stress and if they had informed their employer that stress was the reason for their absence. We were also interested to understand how they dealt with their levels of stress both in the work place and away from work, as well as establishing how the symptoms of stress manifested themselves.”

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Hosted Services – Benefits, Challenges and Trends in HR, Finance and Payroll ‘Software as a Service’

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“From automation to business intelligence: the next generation of hosted services”

An analysis of the benefits, challenges and trends in HR, Finance and Payroll ‘Software as a Service’

Introduction

If you’d suggested at the the turn of the century that hosted services would be firmly established as a mainstream model for running business software, you’d have been greeted with derision. The model – also known as Software
as a Service (SaaS) – got of to an inauspicious start, blighted by a combination of technology problems and the dot com colapse. Today, however, it’s an established form of outsourcing in a broad range of business disciplines, from customer management to people management.

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Expense Management Article Featured in “A Director’s Guide”

The Expense Management briefing paper, written by Webster Buchanan Research in association with Computers In Personnel has been featured in a recent issue of ‘A Director’s Guide’.

“In a cost-cutting environment, expenses are often the first area to come under fire.And while monitoring and pruning spend may bring immediate results, close attention to the actual expense management process could bring greater benefit in the long term.

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