{"id":1372,"date":"2010-06-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2010-06-14T19:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T03:00:44","slug":"the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cOther\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Why can\u2019t we get along with payroll?\u00a0 What makes them so different?\u00a0 It really does not matter when Payroll reports up to HR and when they report up to Finance.\u00a0 There always seems to be some friction.\u00a0 Often we like to think that they are just \u201cdifferent\u201d people.\u00a0 HR people are strategic and nurturing and outgoing.\u00a0 Payroll people, well, are like accountants.\u00a0 They are introverts, task oriented, and live in a cube with a spreadsheet.\u00a0 It\u2019s true that there may be some substance to the stereotypes, but at the end of the day, it\u2019s not the type of people we are that causes friction, but our different and unique work experiences.<\/p>\n

The payroll experience is definitely one of structure.\u00a0 There are specific rules that one must comply with, specific deadlines, and all of this must be driven by high quality data.\u00a0 HR would like to think that we abide by the same philosophical rules of compliance and process and data quality, but I don\u2019t think our HR world operates in quite the same sphere of severity that payroll does.\u00a0 Lets face it, there is much less flexibility in interpretation for getting your taxes right versus your EEO reports (you simply can\u2019t go \u201cundeclared\u201d for taxes).\u00a0 payroll processes means that if an employee is not in the system when they run paychecks, or if a timecard is still wrong, that payroll still has to run.\u00a0 When HR talks about data quality, we\u2019re often not sure how many people are even employed in the organization on any given day.\u00a0 If payroll if off by $1 for every employee, they will get a mean-spirited phone call for 90% of the population.\u00a0 When we can\u2019t run an accurate headcount, our executives sigh and give us a $1M project to figure it out.<\/p>\n

Our core values might be the same, but their consequences are drastically worse when they don\u2019t perform.\u00a0 We don\u2019t like to admit it, but we are the cause of so many of payroll\u2019s problems.\u00a0 There is always another new hire, or some off cycle spiff that has to get processed.\u00a0 Because payroll data is often downstream from HR data from a process perspective, and we don\u2019t understand payroll\u2019s consequence severity, we are not always tolerant of their deadlines and rigid processes.<\/p>\n

So be nice to your payroll people.\u00a0 They might be downstream from HR from a data process perspective, but from an employee engagement perspective, payroll is one of our key influencers.\u00a0 Nothing makes employees unhappy faster than bad payrolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why can\u2019t we get along with payroll?\u00a0 What makes them so different?\u00a0 It really does not matter when Payroll reports up to HR and when they report up to Finance.\u00a0 There always seems to be some friction.\u00a0 Often we like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,28,10,33,47],"tags":[160,75,97],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-engagement","category-finance","category-governance","tag-compliance","tag-payroll","tag-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}