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Is your payroll processing solid, or is your organisation about to spring a costly leak? 

 

Our first magazine edition of the year has landed. And yes, the cover features a tap. Because when payroll goes wrong, issues can trickle by unnoticed until businesses suddenly find themselves flooded with problems.

 

“Payroll breakdowns rarely arrive with a single dramatic moment,” our journalist discovers, but “left untouched, they [can] resurface on a much larger scale.” 

 

Citing up-to-date research and stats, we review some of the worst organisational breakdowns to have impacted payroll, and round up advice about how HR can help employers avoid disaster. 

 

Also in the January/February 2026 edition of HR magazine:

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