Guides

Inclusive board leadership whitepaper - Free Download

Marshalls editorial — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:50:34 GMT

This whitepaper sets out why leadership from the board on inclusion matters, and
should:

Lead to a more inclusive and diverse organisation
Lead to better decision-making
Support and protect the organisation by challenging it
And more!

Download your free copy today.

White paper download | Training priorities for financial services firms

Ciphr editorial — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:50:29 GMT

Why training matters more than ever in 2025

Benefits guide download: Pocket guide to investing in employee benefits software

Ciphr editorial — Fri, 23 May 2025 11:04:34 GMT

HR leaders have a clear choice: continue with traditional benefits or take a bold step forward to meet evolving employee expectations.

Today’s top talent expects more than perks. They want personalisation, purpose, and a benefits strategy that puts people first. In our latest guide, you’ll discover how to build a future-proof employee benefits programme that drives engagement, retention, and real business results.

Whether you're updating an outdated programme or building from scratch, this guide is your blueprint to becoming an employer of choice through people-first benefits.

Download for free - people powered: unlocking CPOs' potential to deliver organisational success

Ciphr editorial — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:20:08 GMT

Ready to lead with impact?

HR software adoption playbook

Ciphr editorial — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:43:26 GMT

Each step of the journey to new HR software is hard work. You have to build a requirements list. Create a business case. Search the market for the right provider. And then you still have to determine the right mix of functionality and negotiate a good deal. Phew.

But just because you’ve signed on the dotted line, it doesn’t mean your work is over. To make all of that time (and money) worthwhile, you have to make sure that your organisation buys into the need for new HR software, and embraces its full potential.

That’s why we’ve partnered with independent researchers from the University of Kent to create the HR software adoption playbook.

Based on the real-world experiences of your fellow HR professionals, the university’s research team created a three-stage methodology for the successful adoption of new HR or payroll software, or a new HR system module.

Download your free copy to learn how to successfully communicate and engage with employees – AKA your new system’s users – during your go-live journey and beyond.

Whether you’ve chosen us as your new HR software provider – or not! – this guide is here to help with the next stage of your journey, and set your organisation up for HR software success. Just fill in the form opposite to grab your copy.

Tax year 2025/26 guide

Ciphr editorial — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:30:00 GMT

Get to know all the upcoming payroll-related and legislative updates with our tax year 2025/26 guide

In this guide you’ll discover:

Legislative changes for payroll 2025/26
Income tax changes and thresholds
National Insurance thresholds, rates and categories
Statutory payments
The Neonatal Care and Leave Act 2023
And more

White paper: employee experience - moments that matter

Ciphr editorial — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:25:00 GMT

Organisations are at an important turning point when it comes to employee experience. When the pandemic invoked a sudden shift to remote working or drastic changes to employment structures in 2020, it also laid bare which employers treated their teams well. Whether it was how well managers communicated changes to working patterns, transparency around furlough, or flexibility for employees to juggle home-schooling with deadlines, workers soon discovered whether their employers’ claims to value their workforce stood up to scrutiny.

So we’ve seen ‘employee experience’ evolve into something of a fashionable buzzword. It’s hard to avoid technology companies describing themselves as experts in the field, while we’re seeing a boom in HR job titles including the word ‘experience’ or ‘happiness’, and even the emergence of the ‘chief heart officer’. But, labels aside, what does it all really mean?

Download the white paper to discover:

What we mean by the term employee experience
How to gauge the experiences of your employees
The role of technology in building employee experience
Effective employee experience interventions

Over the course of this white paper, we’ll define employee experience in today’s labour market, how it differs from employee engagement, how you can measure it, and the role of digital tools in making it better. What we won’t tell you, however, is how technology can fix a negative experience or create a positive experience from scratch – it can only ever be an enabler.

The complete guide to payroll services: what’s best for me?

Ciphr editorial — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:23:51 GMT

Every organisation wants to make sure that its people are being paid accurately and on time. To make the payroll process run as seamlessly as possible, organisations may choose to either run payroll processes in-house, or outsource instead.

When deciding between outsourcing payroll or handling it in-house, payroll teams need to weigh up the benefits and drawbacks of the two and choose what works best for the entire organisation, but this can still be a difficult task.

In this guide you’ll discover:

The difference between in-house and outsourced payroll
The benefits and drawbacks of each
The key points you need to consider when choosing between in-house or outsourced payroll
What you should ask potential payroll providers

How to get the C-suite to invest in business HR software - free download

Ciphr editorial — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:13:11 GMT

To deliver true value for your organisation, you need the right HR and payroll software. But it’s often challenging to get sign-off for the investment to move beyond basic legacy technology.

This eBook will help you build a business case that speaks the C-suite’s language, accommodating their priorities and alleviating their concerns. So you can secure investment for strategic business HR software that empowers you to amplify your impact.

Download to learn how to:

Understand what leaders care about most when considering business HR software investment, and how to accommodate their priorities
Collaborate with senior stakeholders to rally broad support, to build a business case that makes saying ‘yes’ easy
Navigate the buying process with confidence, avoid common pitfalls, and prepare for a successful implementation

Escape the vicious cycle of HR under-investment. Look through the lens of leaders: understand how to compel the C-suite to invest in the HR and payroll software you know the organisation needs. Download now.

Benchmarking HR software

Ciphr editorial — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:00:12 GMT

Modern HR systems are used throughout organisations to, among other tasks, monitor and record people performance, enable people to access essential information, align organisation-wide objectives with personal goals, hire new recruits, and report on key people metrics.

Unfortunately, many organisations are either not using HR software that can support them with these tasks, or are not taking full advantage of the functionality that’s available in their existing software.

Whether you wish to replace your HR software, understand how to get more out of what you have, or if you want to ensure you remain up to speed on what is happening in the HR technology industry, this guide – written by the experts at Phase3, an independent HR and payroll consulting and services provider – offers practical advice and guidance on how to benchmark HR software, including:

How to understand where your organisation is in its HR software journey
The five-step benchmarking methodology
Making a decision and identifying the benefits of new HR technology