blogs > Outsourcing
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Stewart Waddell
Acquiring a care home is rarely a simple tick-box exercise. It’s often fast, messy, and incredibly stressful. Whether you are a large care group expanding your portfolio or a management company stepping in to turn around an ailing care home,...
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Stewart Waddell
When you’re choosing a payroll provider, cost and technology usually top the list. And fair enough, they matter. But there’s something else that’s becoming increasingly important to businesses evaluating providers, and that’s staff consistency. Recently, I was talking to a...
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Josh Donner
If you’re running a hospitality business, you already know that tips and service charges are essential to your staff’s total earnings. You also know that tip distribution right isn’t optional anymore. Since the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act came into...
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Alison Clynes
Choosing whether to outsource your payroll or manage it internally might be a common business decision, but it’s not one that should be taken lightly. This comprehensive blog examines both options through the lens of cost, compliance risk, and scalability...
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Stewart Waddell
As an accountancy practice, your clients expect you to handle their payroll. It’s part of the service, part of being their trusted adviser. But payroll has become a beast that’s quietly eating away at your practice’s profitability and your team’s...
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LIam Ridgill
Since the UK GDPR and the new Data Protection Act came into effect in 2018, every business has claimed to be compliant. It’s expected. It’s promised. But can it actually be proven? That’s where ISO 27701 comes in. It is...
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Stewart Waddell
The warning signs you ignore at your peril Outsourcing your payroll should make your life easier. That’s the whole point. You hand over one of the most compliance-heavy, time-consuming parts of running a business to experts who eat, sleep and...
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Stewart Waddell
It starts small. An email takes a day longer to get answered. Your regular contact has “moved on to new opportunities.” You get introduced to someone new – again. They seem capable enough, but you can tell they’re still getting...
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Richard Rowell
Why getting payroll right is your best staff retention strategy The care sector is haemorrhaging talent. With turnover rates spiralling and agency costs crushing margins, providers are scrambling for solutions. However, while most focus on recruitment drives and retention bonuses,...
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Stewart Waddell
At Ascend, we’ve always believed that the way we serve our clients matters just as much as the services themselves. It’s not just about processing payroll; it’s about how we make people feel throughout their entire journey with us. Recently,...