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Payroll Confidentiality: can you trust your own team? (Wed Nov 28 2007)
When I'm designing HR systems for clients in the Arab Gulf, I'm very often asked to separate the payroll into two - for seniors and for the rest. The smaller senior payroll is handled by a senior administrator and is entirely hidden from the 'payroll administrator'.
Although I give the clients what they want, I can't abide the practice. For a start it increases the workload, and increases the likelihood of human error.
But I have two questions. First, a factual question. Is this practice common in other parts of the world? And second, your experience-based view. If you send out the signal that you don't really trust your team, do you end up getting what you expect?
