Over the last decade or so, wages departments within big companies have become pretty much obsolete.

Whilst computers have reduced the amount of time it takes to work out the correct deductions and so forth it is not technology that has replaced the traditional wages clerks. These days it is quite normal for businesses to outsource to a payroll company. As more employers pay wages monthly rather than weekly and with the speed of new technology it makes far more sense than having to provide wages, and office space for employees who are not working at full stretch throughout their working week.

Similarly for small to medium businesses, it makes little sense to take on staff who will not making some kind of direct contribution to the profitability of the business in some form or another. There are now companies, like us at Moorepay who specialize in providing payroll services to the small to medium business. It should be noted that whilst the laws relating to payroll are the same for all sizes of business, the requirements of an SME are in fact different.

If you are running an SME then you need a payroll services provider who, like us, is happy to work with you to develop a way of doing things which fits in with how your company works rather than impose a system on you that actually requires you to spend more time implementing it than it would have taken you to do the job yourself in the first place.