The Payroll Podcast

Most organizations are treating the EU Pay Transparency Directive as a compliance deadline to hit. But the employers who will come out ahead are the ones who understand what it actually represents: the biggest shift in the employer-employee relationship s

In this episode: Zero-Hours Reform, Umbrella Liability and Payrolling Benefits | Payroll Question TimePayroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the local expertis

Most businesses think payroll is working. People get paid, deadlines are met, and no one raises a flag. But compliant payroll is not the same as strategic payroll, and in a regulatory landscape that is shifting faster than most employers realise, the gap

Most payroll professionals spend their careers heads down, processing pay, managing compliance, and keeping systems running. But the payroll leaders who will still be standing in ten years are the ones lifting their heads up right now, investing in their

Every year, the conversations at Payroll Congress shift. Five years ago it was platforms and providers. Then remote work and resilience. But at the 44th Payroll Congress in Nashville, every conversation kept circling back to the same two questions: what c

Most organizations are rushing to add AI to their payroll stack. But here is the uncomfortable truth. AI does not fix broken payroll. It amplifies it. And if your foundation is wrong, your AI strategy will fail before it even starts. In this episode of @th

In this video: How Payroll Is Moving from Back-Office Processor to Strategic Powerhouse in the Age of Automation | The Payroll Podcast Live from Payroll Congress 2026For years, payroll has been treated as a back-office function. A necessary process. A cos

Does Payroll Need a Rebrand? | The Payroll Podcast with Vickie Graham, Nick Day, Ana Laiu, Ian Hodson and Melanie PizzeyFor years, payroll has been viewed as a back office function focused on processing pay, managing compliance, and making sure employees

Tom Heys has spent years inside the complexity of pay gap reporting and pay transparency law. And along the way, he learned something most organizations only discover when it is too late. The problem was never the reporting. It was the data behind it. In t

In this episode: Day-One SSP, Mandatory Payrolling & the New Rules Reshaping UK Payroll | Payroll Question TimePayroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the l

Miranda Humphries has spent her entire career inside payroll. Not on the edges of it, not adjacent to it, but deep inside the complexity, the pressure, and the transformation of it. And along the way, she learned something most organizations only discover

Most payroll teams are still viewed as operational functions focused on processing pay, maintaining compliance, and keeping systems running. But payroll is changing rapidly, and the organizations that understand this shift first will gain a major strategi

In this episode: SSP Changes, Holiday Pay & Payrolling Benefits | Payroll Challenges for 2026 & BeyondPayroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the local

Most payroll systems work. People get paid, compliance is met, and no one questions it. But working payroll is not the same as good payroll, and good payroll is not the same as modern payroll. Hidden behind the usual systems are inefficiencies, friction,

Tricia Hartley spent 47 years doing the latter. From a chance encounter with a clock card-carrying HR manager at Heathrow Airport in 1977 to becoming one of the first women ever appointed as Director of Global Payroll Services, hers is a career that did n

Most companies think payroll integration is an IT project. They build it, they test it, they go live. Done. But here is the truth nobody is saying out loud: payroll integrations rarely fail on day one. They fail on day 100, day 300, or the moment somethin

Imagine attending Payroll Congress for the very first time and within a year becoming part of the PayrollOrg team responsible for training payroll professionals across the world. That is exactly what happened to Christina Ruderer, CPP, and her story perfe

My first book: The Payroll Pivot book is out now! Visit: www.thepayrollpivot.com Or Purchase on Amazon today: https://shorturl.at/rXBXP Payroll Congress is often seen as just another industry conference but what if it's actually the single most career-def

In this episode: April 2026 Payroll Changes | Tax, SSP, NMW & EV Salary Sacrifice ExplainedPayroll Question Time is brought to you by SD

My first book: The Payroll Pivot book is out now!https://shorturl.at/rXBXPPayroll has long been seen as a back office function but what if thats the biggest myth holding the industry back? In this episode, Anita Lettink steps in as host to interview Nic

This episode is sponsored by DeelHire, manage and pay anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) reform is one of the most significant payroll changes in years. Yet most of the complexity isnt in the headline changes. Its

In this episode: Payroll vs Reward Debate | P11D Electronic Mandate | BACS Hash Dropped | Pension Dashboard DelayPayroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the loc

This episode is sponsored by DeelHire, manage and pay anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/The EU Pay Transparency Directive is one of the biggest regulatory changes facing payroll, HR, and reward leaders across Europe. With the June 2026 dead

This episode is sponsored by DeelHire, manage and pay anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/Most payroll errors are not caused by systems or legislation. They are caused by human decisions made under pressure. My guest today, Lars Hyland, is a g

This episode is sponsored by DeelHire, manage and pay anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/From accidental payroll clerk to award-winning NHS leader. In this episode of The Payroll Podcast, Nick Day speaks with Karen Beckett, Head of Payroll &a