Payroll

An announcement that requires acknowledgement tracks it per person and chases the ones outstanding. Without that it is a noticeboard, not a record.

These are links out to the systems you already run. Pretending an HR portal replaces them is how internal tools end up with three half-built copies of everything.

Offboarding is a checklist for the same reason onboarding is. The two tasks people forget are the equipment and disabling the accounts, and both are on it.

Each notification names the thing to do and links to it. A count with no link is a source of anxiety rather than a prompt.

The variance threshold and the fit note rule are yours. Ours are a starting point, and this app does not calculate statutory tax for any jurisdiction: it holds what your payroll bureau or tax engine returns.

A variance check does not find fraud. It finds the timesheet that was entered twice and the leave that was taken and never recorded, which between them account for almost every payroll correction anybody ever makes.

Reconciliation two months behind is not a year-end task, it is a monthly task that stopped. Catching up in December means checking five months of movements at the busiest point of the year.

Gross pay per month in thousands. The line is almost flat, which is what makes the four individual variances worth looking at rather than the total.

Errors follow variable pay, not headcount. The hourly group is a quarter of the people and three quarters of the corrections.

A variance check does not find fraud. It finds the timesheet entered twice and the leave that was taken and never recorded, and between them those account for almost every correction anybody makes.

Nobody approves a run they prepared, and the system administrator can see no individual amount. Payroll is the one system where the people who run it should have the least access to what is in it.