15 Easy Employee Engagement Activities For Your Organisation
What is Employee Engagement? Â It’s great to have a highly efficient workforce but retaining them for as long as possible is equally important. Retaining employees is not just about keeping them in the company but also involves keeping them engaged, enthusiastic, and committed to your organisation’s success. While employee engagement is critical to an […]
Exit Management: An In-Depth Guide to a Professional Employee Offboarding
While most organisations invest a lot of time and resources into recruitment and onboarding, employee exit management can often take a backseat. With less effort and attention put into the offboarding process, organisations can risk exposing themselves to unnecessary legal and security threats. Overlooking employee exit management can also prevent your organisation from getting valuable […]
What CEOs Want From HR: Aligning Human Capital With Business Strategy
HR professionals are frequently squeezed into the tight spot of simultaneously managing employees’ and management’s expectations on the same issues.  Due to the unique role of HR, they are largely viewed by employees and management alike as a group that supports ‘the other side’. Employees see HR as only looking out for the interests of […]
Oil & Gas: Optimising Your Hiring Timeline
The average time it takes to fill open positions is 42 days, but this varies by industry. It’s safe to assume that time to fill in the oil and gas industry is longer than the general average. Hiring new talent can benefit your company as they come with new ideas, skills, knowledge, experiences, attitudes and […]
The Role of HR in Bridging the Skills Gap in the Manufacturing Industry
Mundane and repetitive work has become one that needs analytical and problem-solving skills. New technologies such as the Industrial Internet of Things are being used to optimise resources, analyse cross-facility operations, ensure predictive and proactive maintenance of assets, monitor manufacturing operations in real-time, and in areas like supply-chain visibility and safety. This way, plant managers […]
Five Common HR Challenges and How to Deal with Them
Interestingly, many employees seem to hold the opinion that the HR team does not do much more than hiring and firing staff. That opinion couldn’t be further from the truth. There’s a lot of depth and breadth to the functions of the HR unit, ranging from activities like compensation and benefits, employee engagement, overseeing performance management, and so many more. As […]
10 Must-have Human Resources Policies
Human resources policies protect the company and employee interests. They cut across employee relations and welfare, safety and health in the workplace, use of company equipment, and so many other elements that impact the business’s overall productivity. To maintain standards across board and prevent reputation damage, it is best practice for businesses to have clearly defined human resources policies regardless of the organisation’s size.    Benefits of HR policies  It provides a uniform structure  Whether there […]
How to Prevent HR Software Misuse
In executing their functions, the HR unit inevitably handles a lot of sensitive employee and company data. This HR data ranges from information like employees’ bio-data, background check information, medical records, bank account number, and the company’s payroll data, among others. Depending on how your data is stored, here are a few steps you can […]
Must-Have Benefits of an Automated Payroll System
Regardless of the size of a business, manual payroll computation is quite time-consuming. You’re also at risk of making errors like entering incorrect data, leading to miscalculation and attracting non-compliance penalties. This and many more are some of the reasons businesses are switching from manual to automated payroll solutions.       There is no doubt that payroll software […]
Our Integration with Flutterwave Will Support Hitch-Free Business Management for Organisations
We recently launched a long list of updates on SeamlessPayroll, our payroll management product. One of the major updates on SeamlessPayroll is the new integration with African payments platform, Flutterwave. This new integration is poised to offer more flexible business management for organisations.  Payroll is an essential part of modern business management that impacts an […]
