The Payroll Pivot

Your inbox pings. Your stomach drops before you've even read the subject line. If that moment is familiar, this book is for you. Payroll runs up to 80% of most organisations' operating expenditure. It carries compliance risk worth millions. It is the reason every employee trusts their employer enough to turn up on Monday. And yet it is still one of the most strategically undervalued functions in business. Why? Nick Day calls it The Fear Tax™ which is the compound cost of hesitation paid by payroll professionals every time they stay silent in a meeting, hold back an insight, or settle for "I'm just in payroll." It is the reason so many brilliant payroll leaders remain invisible inside the very organisations they keep alive. Drawing on more than 400 interviews with senior payroll leaders through The Payroll Podcast, and two decades of specialist recruitment experience, The Payroll Pivot lays out a practical path from operational processor to strategic