Ask a Swiss SME owner what it costs to run absence in one place and salaries in another and the honest answer is usually: nothing. No invoice arrives. No day is lost. Most weeks the two systems sit there quietly and agree with each other. That is what makes the cost of disconnected HR and […]
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A new person starts on Monday. Before they do, their details have to exist in two places — once where holidays and absences are kept, and once where salaries are run. Name, address, start date, percentage, bank details, canton. Neither entry takes long. Nothing goes wrong that morning. Separate HR and payroll systems are the
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Your absence spreadsheet is probably working. That is what makes it hard to replace. It was the right answer when there were four of you — one file, one person keeping it, one place to look. Nobody sets out to track employee absences without spreadsheets. You get there because the file drifts: a day agreed
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Someone is going to ask you for two week off today. They will ask by email, or by WhatsApp, or by leaning through your office door. You will try to remember whether anyone else is away that week, whether they have the days left, and where you wrote down the last request. Then you will
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