Staff Performance Appraisals - A Guide For UK Businesses
Read our guide to performance appraisals, from their definition and purpose through to best practices and available tools for UK companies.
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Employee wellbeing
Find out everything you need to take care of your employees’ wellbeing, with useful articles on pensions, benefits, running successful meetings and more.
Employee Assistance Programmes - An Introduction & Guide
Employee Assistance Programmes can be a valuable tool for HR leaders to provide support and advice for employees. Find out about them here.
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Operational Resilience: From Foundations To Growth - Live!
A selection of the key talking points and takeaways, to give People leaders a flavour of what went on at Operational Resilience: From Foundations To Growth.
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Time & Project Tracking - Find Out About Our Latest Feature
Using PayFit, both employers and employees can now track their time and projects from the same place as their payroll and HR. Find out about it here.
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Performance Improvement Plan (PIP): Best Practices & Examples
Learn how to put together a solid performance improvement plan, for when an employee is struggling. With best practices, a template and examples.
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Types Of Flexible Working - A Guide For Employers
Learn about the different types of flexible working arrangements that exist in the ‘flexi-workingverse’ from remote working to compressed hours.
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How To Create An Employee Onboarding Program
A great employee onboarding program is key to retain staff, improve engagement and employee productivity. Here's how to create one.
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Why You Should Consider Cloud HR For Your Business
Cloud HR software can transform the way your organisation manages HR processes. Learn how in our latest blog.
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Conducting Employee Appraisals: A Full Step-by-Step Plan
A full step-by-step plan for conducting an effective employee appraisal before, during and after these reviews.
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Employee Development Plan Examples & Template
Learn how to craft an employee development plan that’s both inspiring and engaging, plus examples you can implement today.
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How To Create A Performance Management Plan
A performance management plan helps you optimise your employees’ performance to get the best results. Learn how and why you should create one.
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Employee Handbooks Explained And Why You Need One
Employee handbooks give new and existing employees the chance to access important information about your company and its policies. Learn more.
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Performance Management Tools - Identifying The Right Option
Picking the right performance management tool for your small business - a deep dive into features, functionality, including examples of tools.
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Employee Wellness Programs Explained
Employee wellness programs aren’t just a trendy retention tactic, they’re a key component of any successful business strategy.
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HR Transformation: Roadmap and Definition
HR transformation is the reimagining of human resource processes. We lay out a roadmap for a successful HR digital transformation.
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Wellbeing Programs for UK Employees
When putting together wellbeing programs for employees, there are a few things to consider. We cover the what, how and why of employee health & wellbeing.
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The Importance of Wellbeing in the UK Workplace
The importance of wellbeing at work can’t be overstated. Find out why it’s so essential for businesses to build cultures of health and happiness.
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CIPD Festival Of Work 2024 - Learnings & Recap
2024’s CIPD Festival of Work invited attendees to come curious, leave inspired, which it certainly achieved. Read our event recap here.
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Employee Retention Strategies Explored for UK HR Teams
Employee retention strategies help bolster morale and reduce turnover. Here’s how to best retain UK employees in the modern business era.
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Creating A Flexible Working Policy In The UK
Read our guide for UK businesses on how to create a great flexible working policy, plus a recap on 2024's new new flexible working rules.
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Mental Health Awareness Week
An article on what Mental Health Awareness Week is and what businesses can do to support.
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The Benefits Of Flexible Working For the UK Workforce
Read our blog post recapping some of the core benefits flexible working can provide, both for UK employers and their employees.
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What is Flexible Working Within the UK Workplace?
We break down what flexible working is, including the different types of working arrangements that exist within the modern workplace.
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A Guide to 360 Degree Feedback for UK HR Teams
360-degree feedback helps employees get appraisals from multiple perspectives. Read our guide on how to set up a 260 feedback program.
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UK Employee Relations - Building A Winning Strategy
In this guide, we explore the deeper nuances of effective employee relations in the UK and how to develop a strategy that fosters a thriving culture.
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PayFit's Flexible Working Survey & Results
Key insights from PayFit's flexible working survey. A survey of 2000 salaried employees uncovering their wants, needs and key trends.
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Strategies to Reduce Employee Turnover
How do you reduce employee turnover? It’s the age-old question every business has. Here are six surefire strategies to tackle this problem.
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How To Measure Employee Performance - A Guide
Want to find out how to measure employee performance? Helps your employees improve in their tasks and roles and as individuals. Find out more here.
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Employee Performance Management - What's It All About?
An introduction to the concept of employee performance management, why it’s important, the different stages, plus tools available to help you succeed.
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Performance Management Systems - Empowering People With Tech
Gone are performance management systems & processes of the past, to be replaced with agile, collaborative tech to empower your people. Find out more.
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Employee Performance Evaluations - Conducting Great Reviews
A well conducted employee performance review can empower your people to go to the next level in their roles. Find out some best practice pointers here.
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Unleashing the power of quality of hire
In the battle for great talent, finding the right metrics to ensure Talent Acquisition rightly contributes to these efforts is critical.
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The Link Between Manual Business Processes & Disgruntled Staff
Outdated systems and processes tend to be time-consuming, error-prone and frustrating for staff. Find out why and how to fix them.
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AI In HR | What Does The Future Hold?
With IBM’s CEO stating that he expects AI to replace nearly 8,000 roles in the coming years, we ask the question: is AI really coming for your HR job?
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Balancing People Enablement & Mental Health
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, read this Q&A with our partner Leapsome on how businesses should balance people enablement with mental health.
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Human Resource Management Systems Explained
Find out what a human resource management system is and how it can help businesses manage their human resources more efficiently and effectively.
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New Feature | Performance Management Module
We have launched a performance management feature, designed to help empower your teams to grow and develop with an intuitive, easy-to-use module.
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Employee Turnover Calculation | PayFit
Employee turnover measures how many people leave your business during a given period of time. Discover the employee turnover calculation and how to manage turnover as a business.
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HR Automation Benefits | HR Software ROI
Struggling to measure your HR ROI? In this blog, we’re exploring HR automation benefits and how you can measure the ROI of your HR tech stack. Read on.
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Payroll Can Improve the Employee Experience, Here’s How
How does payroll affect employee experience? It can cause employees stress and affect your future hiring strategies. Learn more in this blog.
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How HR and Finance Teams Can Work Together
Two heads are better than one. Here are three ways Finance and HR teams can collaborate to improve ROI, employee retention and compensation strategy, and more.
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How Business Advisors Can Help Clients Build Out Their Tech Stack
Our business advisor friends share what accountants and HR consultants can do to help clients close the tech gap. Here’s a full recap of our latest webinar.
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Workforce Planning & Employee Experiences
When payroll and HR work in lockstep, exceptional things happen. We recap everything we shared during our latest webinar with our modern HRIS partner, HiBob.
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Total Rewards Strategy for Scaling Businesses
Top insights from our latest webinar with BambooHR, all about nailing your rewards strategy from aligning with company goals and OKRs to stakeholder buy-in.
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Employee wellbeing X your benefits strategy
It’s about time we dropped the free coffee vouchers. Our friends at Heka discuss how to bake employee wellbeing into your benefits strategy for higher impact.
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PayFit now integrates with Leapsome
Our latest integration with Leapsome makes managing employee enablement in tandem with payroll a cinch - here’s why your employees will love it.
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How to improve your onboarding experience with automation
Automation is a wonderful thing, it can streamline menial tasks and improve your onboarding experience. Find out how.
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How people-first budget planning boosts your bottom line
We're delighted to host a guest blog by Tali Sachs, Content Manager at Hibob. According to HiBob research, 55 percent of professionals working at mid-sized companies said that the main driver behind their decision to quit was their need for better work-life balance.
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The apprenticeship levy: why did half of UK firms return their money?
Back in 2017, the apprenticeship levy system was introduced to improve the availability of apprenticeships. As the national apprenticeship week begins we thought we would go over everything you need to know about it.
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Global Mobility what's it all about?
Employees are getting used to their new routine and show little sign of returning to the daily city commute, some companies have even allowed their employees to work from anywhere in the world! What do you need to know before offering global mobility?
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Creating a compensation and benefits strategy
It is now more important than ever for HR teams to build an effective compensation and benefits strategy to motivate their workforce and attract new talent. How to implement an effective and well-balanced compensation and benefits strategy.
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Apprenticeship incentive payments
Incentive payments for hiring new apprentices have increased. Employers will now receive £3,000 for apprentices of all ages who join their organisation between certain dates.
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Five key points to ensure successful 1:1 meetings
In this article, we look at five key points that managers may wish to consider and explain how PayFit can help support the success and effectiveness of these weekly meetings.
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MHAW: Mintago Q&A — financial wellbeing
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, we spoke with Chieu Cao, Founder & CEO at Mintago, about the importance of financial wellbeing for both employees and employers.
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Everything you need to know about apprenticeships
To celebrate the start of National Apprenticeship Week, we thought we'd take a look at the rules and regulations surrounding apprentices.
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GUEST BLOG: Remote-first contracting for SMEs
In a world where so many tasks are completed at a click of a button, contract signing has seemingly been left behind. Our friends at Juro are out to change this and have produced a short piece highlighting why a revolution is on the cards.
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Employee benefits: how it works
Employee benefits are an excellent way of attracting talent and retaining staff. But what are the rules and regulations in place around them?
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Remodelling company culture post-coronavirus
With the majority of people having to work remotely, many organisations have been redefining their company culture and looking at ways of adapting it to work in a post-coronavirus world. Discover how in our latest article.
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Recruitment during and after the pandemic
Despite the significant job losses that have occurred as a result of the pandemic, some organisations have continued to recruit. Discover how they've adapted their recruitment processes and hear from an industry expert on the future of recruitment post-pandemic.
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Learning and development post-coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the need for digital transformation and encouraged HR teams to explore new and more innovative procedures. Find out why.
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Employee wellbeing pre and post-pandemic
Employee wellbeing is always an important topic for HR managers. But how have organisations adapted to meet the conditions imposed by the pandemic?
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HR trends pre and post-pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has completely changed our working habits – but how have HR departments adapted to the challenges that have risen?
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Seven remote work software tools
The coronavirus crisis forced a significant number of businesses to close their offices and their employees to work from home. But how has modern technology enabled these businesses to operate effectively in unfamiliar circumstances?
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The role of HR in employees' financial wellbeing
Over three-quarters of UK employees say that financial concerns impact their performance at work. This staggering statistic shows that there is a lot of work to be done to help ensure people are financially literate. But what can employers do?
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Eight tips to guarantee a successful remote onboarding
We sat down (remotely,) with recruitment specialists Tempo to discuss how to successfully welcome new starters to a company when in full-scale remote work.
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Why Employee Appreciation Day should be longer than just one day
Today marks Employee Appreciation Day. But should employees and their achievements be celebrated just once a year?
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To manage or not to manage? That is the question…
In the first of a series of articles into management, we look at horizontal rather than vertical career progression.
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Get in, get going! It’s time for your business to join the fitness revolution
Find out how you can promote fitness in the workplace and improve the health and wellbeing of your employees!
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Don’t worry, be happy! How happiness in the workplace can boost your profits
The UK workforce has one of the highest rates of unhappiness in the world. In this article, we look at ways of creating a more positive work environment.
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Acing the onboarding process like a HR superstar 🤩
You only get one first impression. Building a strong onboarding process is the best way to welcome and retain new employees.
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