Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Getting the paychecks out on time

Sometime back, one of my buddies decided to quit the company where he was working and get into his own business as he saw a lot of opportunity there and he also had acquired a lot of experience in the buying and selling business. After a lot of trial and error, he was able to locate the right tools to make his business a total success as he was able to find the right tools were missing earlier which he needed to get in touch with the employees across a wide area. The overall payroll system which he was using extensively were not great so poor that it ended up giving a really bad impression. Employees were not happy and they ended up not working with him. Going through all the options available to us, we discovered that the inefficient payroll system which had been set up about a decade before was the bottleneck. Looking at the choices available, we discovered a solution to our problem.

The kind of situation that usually drove employees away was not receiving their payroll on time and nothing seemed to go right as something or other was going wrong. You see, the one major event which made us realize that we needed an overhaul was when last year we had to consolidate all the different records, total up our profit and loss and finally print out a lot of reports. Initially everything seemed to work just right until the employees brought it to our notice. It was a high stress time and everyone panicked. So, we made a frantic phone call to the company which took care of all the human resources payroll problems and told them to quickly send someone over to clean up the mess we were in.

The new payroll guys arrived just in time to see what crisis was brewing in our office at this time. Upon checking, it was found out that there was not any major defect with all the existing payroll system we were using. We put the decision to replace it and moved on to the next generation payroll system. The whole system was overhauled in a jiffy and at an affordable price also. Tension flew out the window and we tried to credit everyones bank account before the evening deadline.

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