In every company, it’s the system that will make the employees stay aside from personal relationships. At the very first place, people are in there to work and to earn. Friendship is most often just a bonus. Meaning to say, if you’re in a job, even though you have the best people as your friends, as long as you’re working in an unhealthy working environment with toxic, stressing and unfair system, then you are most likely to have enough reasons for you to quit and put everything down.
This where the role of Payroll come into place because Payroll is one of the important elements in a company which holds it together. How? What most job applicants look for in a company is their current system. How they hire, how much they will be paid along with all the benefits, and most importantly the values and visions of the company which they need to inherit. Now, Payroll is one of the things that connect the employer to the employees. Mutual understanding is what will help make a good working relationship but a disagreement can ruin and set everything apart.
Now, if you have an effective, transparent and comprehensive Payroll, you have this automatic click to the employees. There is tendency that they will grow fond of their work and of course of your company which gives them the reason to stay. Otherwise, they’ll be gone before you know it.
But first, what you have to do is to know and understand that your employees have their own personal lives which you can usually know easily upon their interviews or looking at their profile. You should also consider that because it will ultimately affect their performance. Those facts can also help you in shaping your business culture. Not to the point that you adjust it completely just for them but just look closely to every applicant or employee. What are their needs and where do they all meet when it comes to their life priorities through this you will know how to make your system friendlier to employees; more considerate and more reasonable.
Of course we cannot change the fact that Payroll is about compensation for the work that your employee has rendered. Always make it a point that both parties fully understand about the working relationship. Like how much is going to be paid for what quality of service, number of hours, output or whatever it is that you will chose to be the basis of their salary. But always make sure that they understand because if not, then there will come a time that they will doubt and think of it as unacceptable. When that time comes, they might not hold you accountable, but surely, it will affect their performance and attitude towards their work. Most often times, it also decreases competence and productivity. But, to clarify, this is not about tolerating demanding applicants or abusive employees. You just have to accept that people have needs which drives them to work and in a company you must also help them supply these needs at the same time hone their growth for them to develop more passion which adds up to their reasons of staying.
