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The five rules of payroll every business should know

1 September 2022

If your business is in the private sector, here are the five simple rules you should follow when it comes to managing your payroll.

What’s the real reason for integrating HR and payroll?

15 August 2022

We spend a lot of time talking about the benefits of combining HR and payroll in one clever, integrated system. We’ve got the integrated, cloud-based ...

Integrated payroll & HR: why it’s time to double up

26 July 2022

The benefits are clear, so why would a business not combine its in-house payroll and HR functions? Some things just work better together. Ant and ...

What’s happening with National Insurance?

22 July 2022

In April it went up. In July it went down. And with a Conservative leadership contest in full swing, who knows where it will go ...

Payroll outsourcing – is now the time to get serious?

18 July 2022

Do the current pressures on business make the strongest ever case for outsourcing your payroll? Lots of organisations outsource their payroll. According to a 2019 ...

4 or 5-day working week – which works best?

5 July 2022

The UK has settled into a pattern of three-day office working, says IWG, the world’ largest flexible office and workspace provider. What does that tell ...

ISO 27001 certification: What does it mean?

21 April 2022

In June 2021, Cintra achieved the ISO 27001 certification. This certification demonstrates our commitment to information security and data protection. What is ISO 27001 and ...