Buying an HRMS is the easy part. Getting the people who are supposed to use it to actually use it, use it correctly, and use it consistently enough that the organisation captures the value it paid for, that is where…
Compliance with statutory employee benefit schemes in Pakistan is one of those areas where the gap between what employers believe they are doing correctly and what they are actually doing correctly tends to be wider than anyone in the organisation…
Private healthcare in Pakistan is under more operational pressure today than at any point in its history. The sector has grown rapidly over the past decade, with private hospitals, specialist clinics, diagnostic centres, and day-care surgical facilities expanding across Karachi,…
Pakistan's manufacturing sector runs on shift work. From the textile mills of Faisalabad that operate around the clock to meet export deadlines, to the pharmaceutical plants in Karachi that cannot afford production gaps, to the food processing facilities in Lahore…
Walk onto any active construction site in Karachi's Defence Housing Authority expansion zones or Lahore's fast-developing Bahria Town corridors on a Monday morning and you will see a version of the same scene playing out simultaneously across hundreds of sites.…
There is a pattern that repeats itself with remarkable consistency across Pakistani organisations that have invested in HR technology. The HRMS gets implemented, the self-service portal goes live, and the HR team sends out a company-wide announcement explaining that employees…
If there is one area of HR management in Pakistan where employers consistently make costly and avoidable mistakes, it is leave entitlements. Not because the rules are impossible to understand, but because they are spread across multiple pieces of legislation…
Performance reviews in Pakistan have a reputation for being either completely ignored or deeply feared, and in most organisations they are neither as useful nor as honest as they need to be to actually develop the people going through them.…
Running payroll in Pakistan is not as simple as multiplying hours by hourly rates and transferring the result to employee bank accounts. Between the Federal Board of Revenue's income tax requirements, the Employees' Old-Age Benefits Institution contribution rules, provincial social…
Attendance fraud is one of those operational problems that Pakistani business owners often suspect is happening but find almost impossible to prove without the right technology in place. The suspicion usually starts with small things. The payroll figures for a…
