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How can your small business benefit from Payroll Services?
When you start a business from scratch, and it is in its growing phase, you want every single element to be perfect and to work efficiently from the beginning. Your time is valuable, and if your business can work with the minimum necessary input and oversight from...
Talent on demand or Outsourcing Which is the right fit for your business?
The ever-evolving work landscape has experienced significant change in the last few years. Where office jobs were once highly desirable, they’ve lost some appeal. Instead, remote and hybrid working models take precedence. Remote working became the new normal during...
On Demand Pay
Humanity has a lot to be proud of. We’ve made incredible technological advancements in only a few short decades! Once upon a time, we had to wait for days, weeks, or even months to access materials and resources. Now, it’s available almost immediately. Think about it...
5 Common Payroll Issues and How to Fix Them
Payroll, the thing that makes a company work, but a lingering problem for the HR and finance department. Every month when the payroll period begins, you can hear the anxious chattering of nails being bitten just waiting for the next issue to arise. At OPS, we deal...
What is the cost of HR Outsourcing
Human resources outsourcing sounds like a good idea for some of your HR functions and you want to know what the cost impact would be, compared to keeping all HR functions inhouse. But it’s no easy feat to calculate the cost of outsourcing because, as with many things...
How to Use Your Payroll Data
Payroll is the invisible hero. If it works smoothly and everyone gets paid on time and accurately, every time, and the company complies seamlessly with regulations, no-one really notices. It’s almost as if the money appears magically in employees’ bank accounts every...
Understanding WPS in Saudi Arabia
The Labour Ministry of Saudi Arabia introduced the Wage Protection System (WPS) in 2009 and made it mandatory in 2013 for all private-sector companies operating in the Kingdom. The system has since evolved to significantly simplify compliance for private companies...
How OPS can help you expand into Saudi Arabia
You’re all set up in the UAE and going places with your business. Now you have your ambitions set on further expansion into the Middle East. Next stop: Saudi Arabia. And why not? The Kingdom is making great strides in welcoming foreign businesses and making it easier...
What is HR outsourcing?
Outsourcing human resources to an external provider offers multiple benefits, but you run the risk of losing local knowledge and fragmentation of services. That is why using an HR service provider with specific knowledge of the Middle Eastern markets, like OPS, is...
New UAE Labour Law 2022- Frequently Asked Questions
In November last year, the UAE issued Federal Law No.33 (the new UAE labour law) which will come into effect on 2nd February 2022. Like the previous version of the labour law, it will apply to all companies operating in the private sector of the UAE, including free...
Understanding Multi-Country Payroll in the Middle East
It is true that different countries manage their economic affairs differently. Social security and wage protection is almost as country specific as a language or gastronomy. And even if a group of countries speak the same language, like, let’s say, Arab, each country...
Global and Regional Payroll Providers- what works for you?
When a company’s operations stretch across countries and regions, payroll can become a challenge. How do you ensure compliance, first and foremost, in each country? Every country has its own regulatory framework. Managing payroll in each country can also become quite...
4 Strategic reasons to outsource payroll
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, strategy means “a careful plan or method for achieving a particular goal, usually over a long period of time.” Interestingly, the first known use of the verb “outsource”, also quoted from Merriam-Webster, was in 1979. In...
Benefits of Centralising Middle East Payroll
Once a company has branches or subsidiaries in more than one country in the Middle East, the question of centralising administrative functions becomes a primary focus. One of the functions in the spotlight is HR and payroll. There are arguable benefits to keeping...
Outsourced Payroll Solutions Nominated for 2 Global Payroll Awards
Outsourced Payroll Solutions Nominated for 2 Global Payroll Awards October 2021Outsourced Payroll Solutions (OPS) the leading payroll provider in the Middle East for nearly 20 years have been shortlisted for 2 awards at the Global Payroll Awards 2021. The Global...
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