Everybody loves getting paid. But why is it that (almost) everybody hates the payroll process?
Firstly, payroll software and the payroll process is hopelessly out of date. Online payslips are still considered a new, new thing in the industry. There are 500 million people on facebook and yet over 95% of the working world can’t get [...]
Should I care about employee data in Linkedin? It depends on who’s asking.
It’s unlikely that a company would prohibit an employee from publishing their position on Linkedin. It would seem, at best, like an unreasonable request. But Linkedin aggregates all positions for all employees in a company. It also records when and how many employees [...]
Timesheets are obviously necessary if you pay staff by the hour. But in most of the world salaried employees also need them. Here’s why:
Under the EU Working Time Directive all of us over-regulated European workers shouldn’t work more than 48 per week, are entitled to a certain number of days off per year (thankfully) and [...]
What do people search for when they’re searching for hr software? Might seem like a stupid question but it’s one worth thinking about for a minute. Last month on Google there were 83m searches for the term “software”. Here are the stats for hr specific searches:
Human resources – 1.5m searches.
Human resources mgmt – 500k. Why [...]
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Apparently, if all links point to your home page search engines begins to think that there’s something fishy going on and demotes your page rank (how important it sees you) or drops you down a few pages in organic search results. To provide at least one deep link to a page on our site I’ve [...]
HR is becoming a very hot topic in China. Not because of the recent changes in HR legislation but because of a literary character. Du Lala is a fictional brash career girl who starts at the bottom of a Fortune 500 company and breaks through the glass ceiling to become hr director. She’s become a [...]
We just posted a new training video to introduce HR Locker to regular employees. It was an interesting project to work on. We wrote the script in Cork and emailed it to a voice over professional in Clare, Ireland. We advertised the video work on elance.com and got three bids within a couple of hours. [...]
I’ve been asked a couple of times recently if HR Locker works for companies that use staff rosters. The short answer is yes. Here’s how one client does it:
Firstly, they create the roster in Excel but it could be created in just about any package. They then upload the roster document using HR Docs, mark [...]
I’ve seen some really interesting stats on how much time is lost through seemingly mundane activities. I’m trying to figure out how much it costs companies to administer their annual leave process.
Here’s a stab at it. Assume an average employee gets 20 days annual leave per year. That’s probably about 6 seperate annual leave requests. [...]
Microsoft shines a spotlight on HR Locker. Today we’re featured as the Bizspark startup of the day.
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