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From today, supporting staff to be safe at work is a stronger legal duty.Employers must now take all reasonable steps to...
30/10/2026

From today, supporting staff to be safe at work is a stronger legal duty.

Employers must now take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment.

What’s changed from 30 October 2026:
⚖️ “All reasonable steps”, not just reasonable ones
🧾 Employers must not allow third parties, such as customers and clients, to harass staff
📍 It applies in England, Wales and Scotland

For shift-based teams, support often starts with the rota: who is working late, alone or facing customers.

HFX Imperago Rota Management shows who is on shift, where and when, so HR and managers can spot people working alone at busy or late times.

👉 Save this for your next policy review.
🔁 Share it with your HR team.

How is your organisation supporting staff on late and lone shifts?

https://hfx.co.uk/hr-solutions/rota-management/



Source: GOV.UK (business.gov.uk)

December is about to fill HR’s inbox with leave requests. What if it didn’t have to?HFX Imperago Employee Self Service s...
29/10/2026

December is about to fill HR’s inbox with leave requests. What if it didn’t have to?

HFX Imperago Employee Self Service supports HR and staff at the same time:
📅 Staff can book holiday or absence outside working hours, without waiting for HR
⚖️ They can check their own balances: hours worked, overtime and holiday taken
🗓️ They can view their shifts and manage shift changes and availability

Each request is automatically checked to see whether it would leave the department short-staffed, so managers can say yes with confidence.

Less chasing for HR. More clarity for staff.

👉 Save this before the December rush.
🔁 Share it with your HR team.

What’s the question your HR team gets asked most in December?

https://hfx.co.uk/hr-solutions/employee-self-service/

Peak season shouldn’t mean burnt-out teams and blown budgets.The extra hours usually land on the same few people, and no...
29/10/2026

Peak season shouldn’t mean burnt-out teams and blown budgets.

The extra hours usually land on the same few people, and nobody sees the cost until payroll runs.

HFX Imperago Forecasting & Budgeting supports managers to plan ahead:
📊 See in real time the financial impact of rota changes
💷 Review costed budget data by job, cost centre or production line
✅ Track actual against planned costs, using your time and attendance data

That means overtime is shared out with a plan, not handed to whoever says yes.

👉 Save this for your peak-season planning.
🔁 Share it with a manager planning December.

How do you make sure overtime doesn’t always fall on the same people?

https://hfx.co.uk/hr-solutions/forecasting-budgeting/

Fewer vacancies. The same amount of work. Who’s supporting the team you already have?UK vacancies have fallen to 691,000...
27/10/2026

Fewer vacancies. The same amount of work. Who’s supporting the team you already have?

UK vacancies have fallen to 691,000, the lowest since 2014 outside the pandemic (ONS, July to September 2026).

When hiring slows, the pressure lands on existing staff: more cover, more overtime, more last-minute changes.

HFX Imperago Rota Management helps managers plan fairly. It shows real-time budget information and cost forecasts as they build the rota, so extra hours are planned rather than piled on.

👉 Save this for your next workforce planning meeting.
🔁 Share it with whoever builds your rotas.

How are you supporting your team while recruitment slows?

https://hfx.co.uk/hr-solutions/rota-management/

This Sunday, your night shift gets an extra hour. Will your payroll know? 🕑At 2am on Sunday 25 October, the clocks go ba...
24/10/2026

This Sunday, your night shift gets an extra hour. Will your payroll know? 🕑

At 2am on Sunday 25 October, the clocks go back to 1am.

Anyone working through the night works an extra hour, so an 8-hour shift becomes 9.

Whether that hour is paid as overtime depends on the contract. But for hourly-paid workers, pay must still average at least the National Minimum Wage for the hours they’re at work (GOV.UK).

Save this. A quick checklist for Sunday:

✅ Who’s on shift between 1am and 2am?
✅ Are their clockings recording actual time worked, not just the rostered hours?
✅ Does your contract say how the extra hour is paid?
✅ Will payroll pick it up automatically, or will someone have to adjust it by hand?

HFX Imperago records the time people actually clock in and out, so the hours payroll sees are the hours that were worked.

👉 Save this for every October and March.
🔁 Share it with your payroll team before Sunday.

How does your organisation handle the extra hour: paid, time off in lieu, or something else?

🔗 See how HFX Imperago Time & Absence Management works: https://hfx.co.uk/hr-solutions/time-absence-management/

What does 1% of your payroll cost look like? 💰For Buffaload, it’s around £105,000 a year.The chilled delivery company ru...
22/10/2026

What does 1% of your payroll cost look like? 💰

For Buffaload, it’s around £105,000 a year.

The chilled delivery company runs 24/7 across four sites, with around 275 employees. Before HFX, data was keyed into payroll by hand, and there were around 20–30 payroll queries a week.

Save this. Here’s what changed with HFX Imperago Time & Attendance and Rostering:

🔹 1% off payroll cost, around £105,000 a year
🔹 Payroll admin cut from 4 operator days and 1 payroll day to 1 operator day and half a day of payroll
🔹 Payroll ready by 2pm on Tuesday, not Wednesday or Thursday
🔹 Face readers ended colleagues clocking in for each other

“The whole experience was pleasurable. There was a good team relationship between Buffaload and HFX.”
Lesa Nicholson, Head of People, Buffaload

👉 Save this for your next payroll review.
🔁 Share it with someone running a 24/7 operation.

How many payroll queries does your team deal with each week?

🔗 See how HFX Imperago Time & Absence Management works: https://hfx.co.uk/hr-solutions/time-absence-management/

📰 HFX Friday NewsSave this. 2 employment law changes already in force, and 2 more on the way. 📌Since 1 October, employee...
16/10/2026

📰 HFX Friday News

Save this. 2 employment law changes already in force, and 2 more on the way. 📌

Since 1 October, employees have 6 months, not 3, to bring most tribunal claims.

That means your records need to hold up long after the event.

Here’s where things stand, according to Acas:

✅ In force since 6 April 2026: keep records of annual leave and holiday pay for at least 6 years
✅ In force since 1 October 2026: most tribunal claims can be brought up to 6 months after the problem at work
🗓️ Coming 30 October 2026: employers must take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment, including by customers and contractors
🗓️ Coming 1 January 2027: unfair dismissal protection after 6 months’ service, not 2 years, and the compensation cap is removed

The common thread? Evidence. Who worked, when, for how long, and what holiday they took.

HFX Imperago keeps time, attendance, absence and holiday records in one place, with reports ready when you need them.

👉 Save this for your next planning meeting.
🔁 Share it with your HR or payroll team.

Which of these changes is your organisation most prepared for, and which least?

🔗 See how HFX Imperago Time & Absence Management works: https://hfx.co.uk/hr-solutions/time-absence-management/

15/10/2026

Save this. 5 signs your payroll week is costing you more than it should. 📌

How many of these sound familiar?

1⃣ Attendance is still tracked on spreadsheets or paper
2⃣ Payroll data arrives at the last minute
3⃣ Managers spend hours authorising hours and overtime by hand
4⃣ Staff regularly query their pay
5⃣ Absence notes live in emails and inboxes, not one system

If you ticked two or more, you’re not alone.

That was Crownlea Group. Managers tracked attendance on spreadsheets with absence notes, and payroll data arrived at the last minute because of all the manual authorisations, calculations and adjustments.

Now every exception is authorised in advance in HFX Imperago, across five companies including Tiger Supplies, TPF Plastics and Upwood Distribution.

🔹 An estimated 2 days a week saved
🔹 Around £20,000 a year saved on payroll preparation alone
🔹 Far fewer queries for managers

“HFX have been great in the amount of time they have saved us and in the improvement in accuracy in hours for paying our staff.”
Martin Holmes, Group Payroll Manager, Crownlea Group

👉 Save this checklist for your next payroll review.
🔁 Share it with your payroll or finance team.

How many did you tick? Tell us in the comments.

🔗 See how HFX Imperago Time & Absence Management works: https://hfx.co.uk/hr-solutions/time-absence-management/

12/10/2026

Your team’s working day doesn’t stop at a desk. Neither should your workforce management. 📱
Staff want to check their shifts, clock in and book holiday without chasing anyone.

Managers need to sort shift changes, sickness and missed clockings, often while they’re out on the floor, on site or on the road.
The HFX Imperago On-the-Go app gives both what they need, in their pocket.
Save this. Here’s what it does:

For staff
✅ 24/7 access from their own phone
✅ Fast mobile clocking
✅ Real-time rota visibility, with instant alerts when shifts change
✅ Holiday requests and balances, any time
For managers
✅ Manage staff shifts and rotas from their phone
✅ Deal with exceptions such as missed clockings and absences, wherever they are
✅ See who’s working, absent or late, live
✅ Review and approve leave requests
Fewer questions for managers. More control for staff. A team that runs smoothly, wherever everyone is.

👉 Save this for your next operations meeting.
🔁 Share it with your HR or operations team.
Would your staff rather check their shifts on their phone, or ask their manager?
🔗 See how HFX Imperago On-the-Go works: https://hfx.co.uk/hr-solutions/hfx-imperago-on-the-go/

09/10/2026

📰 HFX Friday News

From 30 October, employers will be liable for harassment of their staff by third parties, such as customers, clients, contractors and members of the public, unless they’ve taken all reasonable steps to prevent it.

The duty to prevent sexual harassment also gets tougher. Acas says employers who may have chosen to take some reasonable steps “will now be expected to take them all with no exceptions”.

Yet an Acas survey carried out by YouGov found 41% of employers weren’t aware of the change.

Acas’s guidance is practical. The steps it suggests include:

🔹 Regularly assessing the risk of third-party harassment and acting to reduce it
🔹 Monitoring and recording incidents and the action taken
🔹 Training staff, for example in staff safety and de-escalation
🔹 Reviewing contracts and terms with clients, customers and suppliers

In higher-risk settings, it also points to appropriate staffing levels.

For organisations with customer-facing teams, several sites, lone workers or late shifts, that starts with visibility: who is working, when, and with how much cover.

HFX Imperago helps you see it:

✅ A live view of who’s working, absent or late
✅ Real-time rota checks that alert managers before rules are broken
✅ Accurate records of who was working and when

Do you know where the risks are in your workforce?

🔗 See how HFX Imperago Rota Management keeps the right cover in place: https://hfx.co.uk/hr-solutions/rota-management/

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