Category: PEO/EOR

9 Payroll Tips for an Effective Payroll Department

An effective payroll department isn’t just essential to a business’s functioning. It also plays a significant role in maintaining a high level of employee satisfaction. Employees depend on getting paid promptly and consistently with the correct amount stated in their contracts.     A payroll process that’s slow, prone to errors, or too complicated can result in […]

Pre-Employment Background Checks: Importance & Types to Reduce Hiring Risk

A good hiring strategy necessarily employs pre-employment background checks. But what really are these checks and why are they necessary?  Picture this …  After a long search, you’ve finally found an applicant that fits the profile. He’s got talent, skills, experience, and by the looks of it, the personality too. So naturally, you’re excited and […]

3 Common Sources of Business Litigation in Nigeria [& How to Avoid Them]

Growing a business to the point of profitability in Nigeria is complex enough. If you add the energy required to manage employees and remain free from business litigation, it could amount to a lot of pressure for business leaders to keep things running smoothly.  Regardless of how tough it may be to keep the ship […]

Hiring a Professional Employer Organisation? A PEO Cost Analysis

The benefits that a good PEO can provide organisations are clear. However, the issue of the costs of hiring a PEO frequently raises concerns for some organisations.   So, how does a PEO price its services?  Several factors impact PEO cost. However, a straightforward answer is that a PEO prices its services according to:   The value […]

Employee Payroll: Understanding Full and Final Settlement

Maintaining an excellent employee experience throughout an employee lifecycle is a crucial responsibility of organisations. And when done right, businesses reap the rewards in the form of increased customer satisfaction which improves customer retention, and ultimately, revenue.  This article focuses on helping you understand a crucial aspect of payroll that ensures quality employee experience when […]

5 Essential Questions to Guide Your Strategic HR Plan

At the heart of the matter, HR professionals have only one purpose: increasing employee performance and delivering on organisational goals. Whether that means sourcing and hiring the best talent or creating an environment in which talent can thrive, every plan and every step that HR takes must deliver on the mandate above.  Consequently, since the […]

How Well Are You Meeting Your HR KPIs?

How well are your HR initiatives impacting the bottom line of your organisation? Peter Drucker is reputed to have said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”  A plethora of research has confirmed that effective HR practices can make a big difference in the growth of an organisation. A few years ago, when […]

Furlough vs Layoff: What Every Employer Needs to Know

Furlough and layoff are buzzwords and are of the most loathed terms in the world of work. Nevertheless, if the day comes when an organisation needs to reduce its payroll due to financial hardship, they are options that employers must deeply consider to keep the business stable. But what do the terms mean? Most people […]

Top 4 Ways PEOs Help with Employer’s Responsibilities at Work

Businesses are built to make profits, not lose time managing employee issues. However, this is not to say that they ignore their employer responsibilities, as this could create significant problems in the workforce that derail the organisation from its central purpose. While some organisations can set up HR teams to manage the common concerns that […]

PEO vs EOR: How to Choose the Help You Need

If your organisation is dipping its toes into international waters for the first time and you are trying to decide which HR outsourcing model is best to help you build and sustain a global remote workforce, then chances are that you’ve come across the terms Professional Employer Organization (PEO) and Employer of Record (EoR).   Though […]

Employer of Record: Expand into African Markets with Ease

If you’ve been seriously contemplating expanding your business into Africa but feel concerned about the inherent difficulties that come with doing business on the continent, here’s something you should consider. As of 2018, there were over 400 foreign companies that had individually succeeded in earning annual revenue of over $1 billion as a result of […]

What is Co-Employment? How to Grow Your Business with Co-Employment

If you’re the leader of a growing business and you have heard the term “co-employment”, but you’ve never given it much thought or, you’ve often wondered why other organisations bother with such arrangements, the answer is: FOCUS.  The underlying power behind a co-employment arrangement is that it unleashes the force of focus in businesses that […]