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Tiffany and Melanie spoke to Jaco van der Merwe for this unforgettable episode which bursts with love and passion for our industry. Some of you know Jaco as the Payroll Pundit but we think he should be Payroll Pundit for the Payroll People! With characteristic vivacity, Jaco shares his thoughts about the industry, how to encourage people to join and how to raise its profile. Travel and payroll go hand in hand so Jaco shares his personal journey from South Africa to Canada.
After more than a decade in the industry and thanks to his great passion for payroll, Jaco van der Merwe (AKA The Payroll Pundit) has developed a keen eye for spotting new ways to elevate the role of payroll within the business.
In this episode of #PlugAndPay we talk precisely about that: how payroll can generate value for the organization and graduate from its traditional role of a back-office, cost-containment function, finally receiving the recognition it deserves...
...but we also discussed things such as what he does when he is "all payrolled-out" or what are the biggest satisfactions of his job.
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There are 5 million job titles within payroll on LinkedIn right now. There are also half a million payroll companies, 60,000 payroll jobs, and 16,000 payroll groups.
It’s safe to say there's a lot going on in the payroll industry at any given time.
And yet, despite the fact that payroll specialists are at the forefront of adjusting to the new normal post-pandemic reality, there’s still a way to go before payroll has a distinctive voice and a seat at decision-making tables.
Jaco Van Der Merwe sat down with Barbara Hodge to talk about why it's time for payroll as an industry to get together to discuss what we can do, what we are good at, and how the fluid boundaries can be redefined as technology advances.
