National Payroll Week

I love giving back and speaking on payroll topics in the community.

And one of my goals is to publish a children's book on money and payroll that I'm working on, and I spread the word on National Payroll Week and Money Matters.

So John, tell us about your background.

Thank you, my friend.

I'm CEO for the Silverstone Technology Cluster, still filling in for whoever's meant to be doing these when we go forward.

But as we're recording, on the day of recording, it's actually National Payroll Week.

I didn't know such a thing existed, but it does.

And as a result of that, we're joined today by Estelle and Joe from TC Group.

Absolutely.

So I wanted to talk to you as well, Abigail, about National Payroll Week.

So you raised a really important point earlier that within BT, you felt that maybe the payroll, HR and finance teams didn't get the recognition that they deserve.

And we do sometimes talk about payroll being that invisible back office function.

And again, in the green room, Joe, you were talking about or you were celebrating this week, weren't you? National

National Payroll Week.

And it's quite fitting that National Payroll Week precedes Pension Awareness Week.

It is, isn't

it? Anyone would have thought that it wasn't coordinated.

We're going to help you with the administration or the challenges you already have in administering multiple employers, multiple schemes.

We'll start to bring those employers on board.

And as you mentioned, this week was National Payroll Week.

Quick nod.

Before we start, it's National Payroll Week from the 7th to the 11th of September.

So if you have a payroll person or you are the payroll person doing it at nine o'clock on a Sunday night, consider yourself properly appreciated.

Nothing in a business gets forgiven faster than a payroll run that goes right, and nothing gets noticed faster than one that doesn't.