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14 May 2008 17:15

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has suspended its main board after an external review highlighted leadership failings in the wake of its loss of two CDs containing the child benefit data on 25 million people. An interim panel of advisers from the  More...
16 April 2008 12:05

Armed Forces personnel can now check on their pay and total benefits package online after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) introduced an internet-based total reward statement. The Armed Forces' Benefits Calculator covers about 215,000 personnel, tho  More...
01 April 2008 15:30

More than one million health workers are now being paid through the £300m NHS electronic staff record project, claimed to be the largest integrated HR and payroll system in the world. The project was launched in 2001 and aims to have all 600 org  More...
18 March 2008 14:10

Basic employee self-service systems have been around for years, but advances in web technology mean human resources professionals can pass on ever more complex processes to managers. Jessica Twentyman investigates. For many employees, the days of dro  More...
04 February 2008 10:00

For procedures that are supposed to be concerned with confidentiality and privacy, how organisations manage the security of their large databases has been the subject of an uncomfortably high number of headlines over the past few months . By far the   More...
14 January 2008 12:19

This year's Softworld human resources (HR) & Payroll Solutions show is being held at the Novotel London West in Hammersmith on 26 February. This free exhibition offers an opportunity to see and test out the latest HR and payroll software, get expert  More...
14 January 2008 12:10

Software giant Sage has acquired personnel and payroll solutions provider KCS Global Holdings in a deal worth £20m. Surrey-based KCS provides human resources (HR), payroll and time and attendance software and services to a number of UK cl  More...
30 October 2007 15:00

The world of HR outsourcing may not get many ­people's pulses racing, but for Malcolm Aldis, managing director of Northgate HR, it is in his blood. Aldis has been working for Northgate and its previous incarnations for more than 25 years. He joined C  More...
29 October 2007 10:49

Norwich Union has reduced the workload of its human resources department through the introduction of an online tool to provide employees with answers to their queries. The company said, in the four months since the online HR system was implemented, c  More...
12 October 2007 08:28

A lack of proactive talent management meant staff at Fujitsu Services felt the company was not fulfilling their career development expectations. An online...A lack of proactive talent management meant staff at Fujitsu Services felt the company was not f  More...
01 October 2007 08:00

Peter Reilly, Award judge Peter Reilly is director, HR research and consultancy, at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES). He leads the work on reward at the IES, and contributes significantly to projects on HR planning. He has published IES re  More...
11 September 2007 14:09

This year's Softworld HR & Payroll Solutions show takes place on 17 and 18 October at Birmingham's NEC. This free exhibition offers an opportunity to see and test out the latest HR software, get expert advice, and update your software and IT knowledge.   More...
11 September 2007 11:52

E-signatures sound like a potential headache relief for HR professionals, removing tiresome signature-chasing and form-filling. But where exactly do you stand if you accept an e-signature? History Nigel Miller, a partner at law firm Fox Willi  More...
03 September 2007 11:40

Software and back-end systems can now do far more than just payroll processes. Jessica Twentyman looks at some of the latest innovations aiming to make your life easier, speedier and even greener.  More...
03 September 2007 10:55

Has the internet sparked a software revolution that will lead to HR jobs being pushed to the outer limits? Predicting the future can be troublesome. Take bearded Osama bin Laden lookalike Nostradamus, who tried a lot harder than most. But did he pred  More...
21 August 2007 00:00

Nearly one million health workers are now being paid through the £300m NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) project, claimed to be the world's largest integrated HR and payroll system. ESR now has 476 organisations and 949,470 NHS employees 'live' on t  More...
07 August 2007 12:00

I read with interest 'HR must restore value of transactional activities', outlining the debate at the recently held Personnel Today HR Directors Club Networking Dinner (Personnel Today, 12 June).  Initially, I was somewhat dismayed at the continu  More...
17 July 2007 00:00

Human resources professionals still depend on paper-based HR initiatives despite an awareness of internet-based tools, research has found. A survey conducted by Qikker Solutions, a provider of e-HR solutions, found that seven in 10 respondents are   More...
27 June 2007 11:20

Cornish tourist attraction and environmental complex, the Eden Project has announced the loss of a laptop containing sensitive employee information. The complex, which opened in March 2001, said a laptop went missing from the car of an employee  More...
19 June 2007 11:53

UK firms are making a combined minimum saving of at least £90m by submitting their payroll year-end tax returns online, new research has found. A survey commissioned by software supplier Sage and conducted by YouGov , questioning 1,368 firms  More...
18 May 2007 16:00

BAE Systems has teamed up with capability management firm, InfoBasis , to streamline its people management systems. Implementation of InfoBasis Enterprise Skills Manager (ESM) will affect 3,500 staff at BAE's Submarine Solutions busine  More...
15 May 2007 11:38

Software giant Sage has bought rival Snowdrop  Systems in a £17m deal. Sage is a leading supplier of business management software and services to 5.2 million customers worldwide. Snowdrop provides leading human resources and payroll ma  More...
09 May 2007 15:15

Law firm Berrymans Lace Mawer is working with Northgate HR to update Berrymans' HR and payroll operation. Berrymans Lace Mawer (BLM) employs more than 800 staff at seven UK locations and aims to simplify its HR processes and provide accurat  More...
23 April 2007 14:17

There is to be a long-term review of the heavily criticised Modernising Medical Careers system used to appoint junior doctors into training posts. The government has announced an independent panel will consider what changes need to be made to th  More...
17 April 2007 14:37

Asset management company Threadneedle has signed a new deal with IT outsourcer LogicaCMG for a fully managed payroll and outsourced HR administration service. The HR outsourcing project aims to provide a one-stop shop for key  More...
13 April 2007 09:28

The City of Edinburgh Council , has signed a £10 million deal with BT , to install a new e-HR service. The project is set to save the council £12 million by 2016 and will streamline its core HR processes, ranging from recruitment, health and   More...
12 April 2007 14:45

The Ministry of Defence (MoD),  will roll out its Joint Personnel Administration system to more than 100,000 army employees by July. MoD signed a deal with outsourcing provider EDS , for the next-generation HR system in 2004 and it is expect  More...
12 April 2007 12:09

Health service HR professionals have been praised by NHS Employers , despite their role in the government’s controversial Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) programme . Earlier this week, the Department of Health (DoH) announced a review of   More...
09 March 2007 12:00

The government has caved to criticism about changes to the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) recruitment programme and agreed to review the system in a meeting today. The British Medical Association (BMA) said last month that it ha  More...
07 March 2007 14:00

The University of Southampton has signed a £560,000, five-year deal with provider Northgate HR for its ResourceLink HR, payroll and pensions software . The new software will replace the university’s current HR and payroll system  More...
06 March 2007 14:16

An integrated IT system frees up more time for HR professionals to focus on strategic business issues and show the value HR can make to business performance, according to research. The report , by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Deve  More...
05 February 2007 16:42

Half of the UK's IT workers feel that adapting to Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista , will distract them from more important issues and 63% believe it will have a negative financial impact on their organisation. In a survey of 150 IT ma  More...
01 February 2007 08:01

The Information  Commissioner has backed the use of file markers to highlight the danger posed by certain individuals to employees. Advice has been published to help those working with the public to manage the use of violent warning m  More...
24 January 2007 11:00

About 5,000 small and medium-sized businesses (with less than 250 staff) are being offered a year’s free access to online HR advice in an EU-funded project. The HR Business Advisor initiative, backed by the Department of Trade and Industry , p  More...
20 December 2006 08:07

BT has extended its contract with Capita Health Solutions to provide outsourced occupational health (OH) services. The extension, worth in the region of £13.5m over nine years until 2015, will provide OH services to more than 80,000 staff at t  More...
15 December 2006 08:01

The UK's largest integrated HR and payroll system - the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) has added the 500,000th NHS employee onto the 'live' system. When complete, all 1.2 million NHS employees - about 7% of the UK workforce will be paid by   More...
22 November 2006 09:46

British Transport Police has signed a contract worth £655,000 for a hosted, flexible, auditable payroll solution from MidlandHR. Using MidlandHR's system, the law enforcement agency will for the first time be able to view its workforce on one   More...
13 November 2006 09:33

Three bidders are in the running to provide a host of corporate services to councils in the South West as part of a £360m contract. Capita, IBM and BT (working in conjunction with Carillion) have been shortlisted to set up a strategic service partne  More...
10 November 2006 09:45

The five-star Dorchester hotel on London's Park Lane has installed a new HR and payroll system. Software provider TeamSpirit  won the contract to supply its HR and payroll software to replace the existing in-house system from a previous supplier.   More...
06 November 2006 12:36

Law firm Eversheds has introduced online verbal and numerical reasoning tests to help sift the 4,000 candidates who apply each year for a training contract. The online tests, designed by assessment firm PSL, have been integrated into Eversheds' online   More...
08 September 2006 11:02

Investment in e-HR prompted by successful pilot scheme.  More...
16 August 2006 08:55

Venue group NEC has signed a £350,000 deal with software provider MidlandHR to develop an integrated HR and payroll system  More...
24 July 2006 16:02

Payroll and other HR services covered in deal.  More...
18 July 2006 16:05

Conciliation service Acas has awarded software firm Northgate HR a five-year contract to provide a new HR and payroll system for its 900 employees across the UK.  More...
18 July 2006 08:20

Coventry City Council is investing £850,000 in a new HR and payroll system which, it is estimated, will pay for itself in three years  More...
13 July 2006 11:07

Travis Perkins and Wickes aim to cut costs and boost productivity from their 15,000 staff   More...
29 June 2006 09:07

HR is being severely hindered by out-of-date IT systems, research has revealed.  More...
20 June 2006 12:00

An initiative by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which doubled the potential reward for anyone reporting the use of illegal software, has prompted a massive rise in the number of companies being reported for software piracy  More...
16 June 2006 11:58

Scottish & Newcastle is set to revolutionise its global HR processes with software provider SAP and service provider Pecaso, in a deal estimated to be worth £1.4m.  More...
13 June 2006 10:48

High street health and beauty retailer Boots has signed a £16m seven-year payroll and HR outsourcing contract with supplier Northgate HR  More...
03 April 2006 11:54

E-recruitment is about more than finding another avenue to advertise jobs. As technology gets more sophisticated, e-recruitment can help HR professionals manage talent in their organisations. The UK online recruitment industry is now worth more than   More...
28 March 2006 00:00

John Lewis Partnership will go live later this month with a new HR and payroll system to better manage its shared-ownership business model  More...
02 March 2006 08:00

Workers in London’s financial district will be able to access the internet in the streets and open spaces across the Square Mile later this year when a wireless network is installed in the area  More...
23 February 2006 10:51

Computer users are being urged to update their anti-virus software to avoid a potentially lethal virus due to hit this Friday  More...
31 January 2006 10:21

Thousands of UK employers may be forced to pay their staff by cash or cheque after failing to upgrade to a new system for paying direct debits and salaries.  More...
10 January 2006 10:35

Consumer and industrial products giant Henkel has begun rolling out an online recruitment system across its global estate in 125 countries  More...
05 January 2006 15:21

IT experts have warned that the government may be over-extending itself on the IT front with its plans for pensions.  More...
06 December 2005 13:01

Pub chain JD Wetherspoons has introduced an online recruitment system which alerts the HR department as soon as there is a managerial vacancy in any of its pubs  More...
21 November 2005 09:34

You were right to warn readers about the deadline for Bacstel-IP payments in your news story on 27 September.   More...
18 October 2005 00:00

The top civil servant in the Department for Education and Skills has said too many of his own staff lack basic maths and English skills  More...
13 October 2005 08:26

The Intercontinental Hotels Group has launched a global intranet for employees spread across six corporate offices and 614 hotels in Europe, the Middle Easte and Africa  More...
11 October 2005 08:53

Most people who know me are aware of how dysfunctional I am in relation to anything technical.   More...
20 September 2005 00:00

Meetings dominate the way in which we do business today. Can virtual meetings ever really replace face-to-face meetings?  More...
09 August 2005 09:30

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group hopes to improve the performance of its 20,000 UK call centre employees by launching an online contact centre 'knowledge bank', to measure their contribution.  More...
09 August 2005 09:00

£6bn IT system threatened by lack of buy-in from NHS staff.  More...
05 August 2005 12:46

The first phase of the £60m Government Secure Intranet project has been completed more than a year ahead of schedule  More...
04 August 2005 15:45

Small firms may have to revert to paying staff with cash or cheques if they fail to meet the deadline for updating their payroll systems.  More...
02 August 2005 11:18

Increased mobility is making it difficult for employers to track software use on portable IT equipment.  More...
08 July 2005 09:00

Companies risk losing sensitive data because of poor security on Blackberry devices and mobile phones.  More...
01 July 2005 08:30

The Revenue and Customs department cannot assess the tax liability of UK employees for 2004  More...
28 June 2005 10:35

The CIPD strongly believes that outsourcing HR services is one route that HR functions can take to achieve a more strategic and influential role within their organisations. Michael Millar looks at the benefits and the nitty gritty of outsourcing your payroll  More...
07 June 2005 00:00

Britain's economic record of the past five years, unlike our arch-rivals, shows technology really does have a creative streak  More...
07 June 2005 00:00

Absence is not being managed in the public sector. Levels and costs are out of control and Sir Digby Jones was right to point out - in your news story 'CBI calls on government to manage public sector sickness absence' (PersonnelToday.com, 9 May) - that u  More...
31 May 2005 00:00

A new feature in Personnel TodayJobs.com lets you upload your CV document to the website so that potential recruiters can view it. Until now, the information you could upload was restricted to a simple career profile. Now, however, you can upload your  More...
03 May 2005 00:00

The UK loves its spam and this unhealthy diet of junk mail is costing businesses billions  More...
09 March 2005 08:00

Problems with an online HR system at the Inland Revenue (IR) are hindering HR and damaging morale in the department, union chiefs have warned   More...
01 March 2005 00:00

Sage customers are fuming after some were wrongly told that they would need a software update to claim new tax incentives that were already covered in a service package  More...
28 February 2005 11:25

The London Borough of Barnet is to overhaul its HR and payroll processes, after signing a £8m deal with consultancy LogicaCMG to replace its ageing IT systems. The new enterprise system, from software firm SAP, will form part of a wider 'Modernising C  More...
25 February 2005 17:35

A fuel pump manufacturer has introduced fingerprint scanning to monitor the working hours of its employees.   More...
25 February 2005 09:10

The Inland Revenue is having to keep paper-based employee records and limit access to an online HR system because it cannot cope with demand.  More...
22 February 2005 10:33

Off-the-peg performance management tools might seem like a quick-fix, but Alex Blyth reports on one company which discovered the benefits of going it alone.  More...
22 February 2005 00:00

Nationwide Building Society has launched a benefits and rewards website for its 15,300 staff.   More...
09 February 2005 15:10

Sensitive corporate data on laptops and mobile phones is regularly being left in the back of London taxis, according to research.  More...
25 January 2005 11:25

High-profile customers which use PeopleSoft software to run HR reassured by Oracle promise to support PeopleSoft products until 2013  More...
20 January 2005 08:13

Investment in HR software requires a thorough business case that pinpoints all costs, potential benefits and project risks to receive financial approval and endorsement across the organisation. HR IT expert Ananda Roy offers a guide to building a mor  More...
14 December 2004 11:30

E-learning is now accepted as an essential feature of training delivery, but more practical work needs to be done on the implementation side if it is to be successful, according to a new survey. Research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Dev  More...
19 November 2004 09:59

European businesses are leaving themselves and their employees open to attack from the hidden dangers of the internet, according to new research. Of the 500 European work laptop users surveyed by internet software company Websense, many are exposing t  More...
01 November 2004 08:00

The public sector is gearing up to fully use e-procurement by April 2005. Yvonne Skingle , HR organisational development manager at Essex County Council and e-HR leader for the Society of Personnel Officers in Local Government ( Socpo ), looks at the  More...
12 October 2004 09:34

Get your time and attendance system running smoothly, and your HR team will benefit from more accurate data and reporting.  More...
13 July 2004 15:15

The suppliers of HR IT systems have been busy consolidating of late. Keith Rodgers explains what this means for your existing and future systems  More...
02 March 2004 14:41

How time and attendance software has helped New Look cut staff turnover and improve the bottom line  More...
10 February 2004 10:33