payroll in news
NHS bodies outsource payroll in £12m deals
News NHS SBS will supply the eight organisations - which include NHS Nottingham City, Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust and Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust - with services including finance, accounting and payroll. [13 Oct 2009]
Facebook wants to double the number of faces on the payroll
News Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to increase the company's head count by as much as 50 per cent this year. The young founder said in an interview with Bloomberg that since there are a significant number of engineers and developers... [25 Aug 2009]
Atkins digs in with £13.7m outsourcing deal
News The five-year contract will see Capgemini provide IT infrastructure and corporate applications for finance, human resources and payroll departments and renews an IT outsourcing contract dating back to 2001. [04 Feb 2009]
Is this the largest security breach ever?
News Heartland Payment Systems, which processes payroll and credit card payments for more than 250,000 businesses, reported Tuesday that consumer credit card data was exposed in what may be the largest security breach ever. [21 Jan 2009]
Wikipedia's Wales "absolutely" still on the payroll
News Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is "absolutely" not out of a job at the Wikimedia Foundation, according to the foundation's director of communications. On Saturday, Valleywag editor Owen Thomas reported that Wales was "out of a job",... [05 Jan 2009]
Department for Transport "incompetence" over shared services
News The DfT planned to cut costs by building the Shared Service Centre in Swansea to provide human resources, payroll and finance support services to its agencies and the central department. The Department for Transport... [16 Dec 2008]
NHS strikes £13m outsourcing deal
News An NHS spin off company has won a £13.8m outsourcing deal to provide payroll services to 12 health bodies. NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), a joint venture between the Department of Health and Steria, will provide... [01 Dec 2008]
Symbian Foundation prepares to shock the competition
News On the Foundation's opennessDespite currently being on Nokia's payroll, Williams was keen to assert the independence of the Foundation. The chief of the new Symbian Foundation is optimistic about the future of the mobile... [28 Oct 2008]
No easy Ryde for Isle of Wight's legacy systems
News The rip and replace initiative will support the council's efficiency programme around finance, procurement and payroll services. Isle of Wight Council has awarded Logica an ERP deal expected to save the authority £27m... [14 Oct 2008]
Is tech hiring on freeze?
News He wouldn't confirm that layoffs are part of the plan but payroll is a major expense. Following news of Microsoft's "hiring chill", what are other tech giants' hiring plans? It's a little hard to get a clear picture of... [06 Oct 2008]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News September 2008: Four CDs containing the details of almost 18,000 staff are lost as they are moved between the wages department of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust and payroll company. In the last 12 months a series of data... [30 Sep 2008]
Carphone Warehouse does workforce management
News Mendes said: "We expect the system to improve payroll runs and decrease payroll inflation, as well as increase productivity, which will increase sales and thus improve gross margin. Carphone Warehouse... [13 Aug 2008]
£81m cost of botched gov't shared services
News Botched government plans to introduce shared services for human resources, payroll and finance could cost the Department for Transport (DfT) £81m by March 2015 - instead of the £57m saving that was originally intended. [23 May 2008]
Bradford & Bingley gets Oracle HR system
News Processes including employee information changes, payroll updates, job description changes and training will be performed through the system, which took 35 days to install and was completed in January. [20 May 2008]
Nielsen to outsource IT in $1.2bn deal
News It covers financial services in such processes as accounts receivable and payable, billing, credit and collections, general accounting, and HR processes including workforce administration, global reporting and payroll... [19 Oct 2007]