Insights from our Africa HR Solutions experts
Eddie van Zyl
Africa Payroll Specialist
Africa HR Solutions
South Africa
Eddie van Zyl is an Africa payroll specialist at Africa HR Solutions with more than 15 years of experience in Sage 300 Payroll and HR across the continent. He writes on payroll operations and payroll trends in Africa.
3 Ways Cross-Border Payments Help You Pay Your Distributed Workforce
International companies that settled on the African continent enjoy several advantages: from highly receptive markets, qualified workforces and tax exemptions to being able to make use of the continent’s many natural resources. The reasons to stay and expand business...
5 Common African Payroll Mistakes You Can Avoid by Outsourcing
Running a multinational is no easy feat, as you may well know. Between product development, sales, customer service, expanding the business, and ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the company across multiple countries, directors and managers have their hands...
8 Qualities Of A Great Payroll Service Provider
Finding the right payroll outsourcing organisation may be difficult. Here are 8 tips to help you in your search for the perfect fit! According to the Payroll Outsourcing Services Market by Product, Application, and Geography - Forecast and Analysis 2021-2025, the...
5 Reasons Why Decentralised Payroll Costs You More Than You Think
Navigating the (almost) post-pandemic climate poses a number of challenges to all businesses, the most important being keeping your finances afloat without having to reduce your workforce. In fact, according to Forbes Councils member John Schwarz, it might be the...
5 Ways Managed Payroll Helps A Business Strategy
Formerly looked upon as being a mundane, albeit important task, the function of payroll within a business is still mostly undervalued. Payroll, however, involves major financial and reputational stakes, whilst providing opportunities such as data analytics and...
What is Shadow Payroll?
Business expansion requires meticulous coordination to replicate the success of the parent company in foreign countries. As such, companies will often appoint an experienced employee to help with the expansion during overseas missions, ensuring that company values are...
Payroll: the Key to Employee Experience
Employee retention has recently become a subject of greater concern for employers. Faced with the aftermath of the pandemic and movements such as “The Great Resignation” – which, in theory, would see workers quit their full-time jobs for greener pastures – employers...
Payroll: 6 Benefits of an Employee Self-Service
Paying people for work done in a specified period (i.e., payroll) is a foundational element of any functioning organisation, and significantly impacts employee experience and perception of the organisation’s financial viability. However, this crucial and seemingly...
5 Reasons to Outsource Your Payroll Operations in Africa
Payroll operations tend to get complicated on the African continent. With more than 40 countries on the continent, laws and policies vastly differ from one another. Limited information is available to most people, and procedures often take a lot of processing time....
How does payroll work?
Processing payroll is one of the most important, but time-consuming and frustrating tasks businesses face. Every time a new tax law is introduced, big changes to the process can result, especially if you’re shouldering all the responsibilities. Ensuring accurate and...
Outsourcing Employee Payroll & Benefits
Outsourcing isn’t the taboo subject it once was. There are, understandably, people who will think of redundancies and work moving offshore but, for many modern businesses constantly searching for flexibility and cost efficiencies, shifting duties to third parties can...
4 Challenges to African Payroll
As a business expands its operations around the world, it must navigate a number of challenges. Each new office can present a different set of opportunities – and a different set of legislative requirements. From a people perspective, a combination of local hires as...