| What is a payroll bureau? It's a simple, effective | | | | special relationships with the Inland Revenue, allowing it |
| solution to the monthly and annual work load involved in | | | | to account for tax and national insurance without any |
| paying staff that takes all the strain off the business in | | | | of the headaches normally associated with so doing: |
| question. It doesn't matter what size the business is: | | | | and, further, removing one of the most significantly time |
| payroll issues take up roughly the same amount of | | | | consuming tasks from the HR or payroll department of |
| time, in comparison to the rest of a company's work, | | | | an existing company. |
| across the board - which means a pretty much | | | | Because a payroll bureau is staffed by people who |
| identical (and very important percentage) of one's | | | | are all qualified to do the job, companies that use them |
| effort is made easier and much cheaper by using the | | | | never get into a situation where expert knowledge is |
| services of an outsourced payroll concern. | | | | lost through sickness, maternity or paternity leave, or |
| Though a small business spends less time, theoretically, | | | | employees leaving the company. One of the most |
| on payroll every month, it devotes the same | | | | common causes of financial loss associated with doing |
| percentage of time to payroll because it has fewer | | | | one's own payroll is the leaving or absence of the |
| employees. A payroll bureau does that work better | | | | employees who do that work: no-one else in the |
| and quicker, leaving the employee whose responsibility | | | | company knows how to do it, which means money |
| it used to be free to dedicate their working hours to | | | | has to be spent getting other staff trained; new staff |
| jobs that directly benefit a company's actual business. | | | | have to be employed to fill the gaps left by the training |
| A larger company may have more staff seconded to | | | | employees - and costly mistakes are often made over |
| payroll - but they've also got more actual payroll to do. | | | | the transitional months. With a payroll bureau, pay goes |
| Which means, as a percentage of overall income lost | | | | in and out smoothly every month and all the complex |
| through payroll, the small and large business are in the | | | | end of year stuff is sorted without anyone having to |
| same boat. A boat that can be steered far more | | | | worry about it. |
| efficiently by a company whose whole reason for | | | | In an age where business is fiercely competitive, and |
| being is to do the work for them. | | | | every employee minute, let alone every person hour, is |
| The payroll bureau takes care of everything: time | | | | of vital concern to the successful running of the show, |
| sheets, hours worked, sick pay, holiday pay, bonuses, | | | | doing one's own payroll is counter productive and |
| year end - the lot. Immediate benefits don't just start | | | | needlessly costly. One can avoid all that lost working |
| and stop with time and money saved, either. A payroll | | | | time by simply outsourcing to people whose whole |
| company is staffed exclusively by expert payroll | | | | working day is concerned with running pay - leaving all |
| employees, who have been trained and accredited in | | | | company employees free to get on with making |
| all forms of accounting. The payroll company has | | | | money for the business. |