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Adventure Engineers Scatter This Weekend

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Our team has been full on the past few months so a few of them took this weekend to see the sights around the region. The timing was was a coincident, but we have PayrollHero #AdventureEngineers in 7 cities around the world today. They are in Hong Kong, Shenyang China, Whistler Canada, Singapore, Manila Philippines, Cebu Philippines and Squamish Canada. Below are a few pictures from their adventures.

Nico Suria is in Hong Kong along with Kieran Peppiatt and their girlfriends seeing the sights, doing a little shopping and taking in some of the local culture.

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(Nico in Hong Kong)

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IMG_0539.JPG(Kieran Peppiatt in Hong Kong)

Bram Whillock, the very definition of #AdventureEngineer takes his outdoor time to the next level. Today, he can be found in the far off peeks of Whistler mountain in Canada.
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photo by Bradford McArthur of ForeverExploring.com)

Aidan Sullivan is in Shenyang, China which is one hour north of Beijing. Shenyang is one of China’s very polluted cities as you can see from the picture below.
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(Aidan Sullivan in Shenyang, China)china adventure engineer

(pollution in Shenyang, China)
vince paca in cebu(Vince Paca in Cebu, Philippines)
singapore payroll guys(Michael Stephenson and Adam Baechler in Singapore)

Are you looking to join a hard working team? We are looking for a few people to join our team. Roles available: Event Manager, Content Writer, Ruby on Rails Engineer, Customer Service Specialist, Business Development and Marketing Manager.

Watch our Adventure Engineering video below to learn more about us…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyyaprfMifg

Welcome to the family, FamilyMart

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familymart-payrollhero2FamilyMart joins many successful food & beverage and retail businesses in the Philippines that have chosen PayrollHero as their time, attendance, scheduling, HRIS, business intelligence and payroll platform.

FamilyMart is a joint venture between Ayala Land, Inc., part of the Ayala Group, one of the country’s largest business groups, and Stores Specialists, Inc., part of the Rustan Group, one of the largest retailing groups.
They plan to open 100 stores in 2014 within the Philippines and just launched their franchising efforts to as part of their goal of having 500 stores in the country by 2018.
FamilyMart franchising launch event at the Dusit Hotel in Makati, Philippines.

FamilyMart franchising launch event at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati, Philippines.

Pictures From An Amazing Morning with Local Filipino Kids

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We had an amazing morning with the PayrollHero team feeding the poor at the Real LIFE Foundation community kitchen. Every Saturday, the Real LIFE Foundation conducts a feeding program for more than 100 malnourished children. These children range from 3 – 14 years of age and come from squatter communities in Pasig, Metro Manila.

The kids were fun, excited to play games and have a healthy meal. Some were very much under weight and obviously hungry but it was great to be able to help in a small way.

Big shout out to The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (Philippines) who is their largest corporate donor and who introduced us to the program.

If your team is interested in participating you can get more information here.

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How Much Can You Afford To Lose?

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The American Payroll Association estimates that 1.5% – 10% of gross payroll is from time theft. That can be a huge number depending on the size of your business.  Image you are using punch cards for your staff and you have a monthly payroll of P2,000,000. That means you could be losing anywhere from “P30,000 – P200,000”.

Mary Grace Cafes Choose PayrollHero

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cafe-mary-payrollheroExciting times over at PayrollHero. Mary Grace Cafes have chosen PayrollHero for their time, attendance, scheduling, HRIS, payroll and business intelligence needs as well as becoming a PayrollHero Lab location. Welcome Mary Grace!!

“At Mary Grace, we believe in keeping our employees happy as they keep our customers happy. With over 600 employees and growing, we were in need of a tool to provide better transparency, accuracy and convenience to cut out manual processes from our HR processes so that employees can focus on giving excellent customer service. PayrollHero looks to be exactly what we were looking for and more! Apart from automating tedious timekeeping, attendance, scheduling, and payroll tasks, PayrollHero has employee engagement tools to strengthen our company culture. We look forward to the potential and promise of their platform“
Adrian Dimacali, HR Director, Mary Grace Foods, Inc. 

Imagine A 1400 PHP Smartphone For The Philippines

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Imagine a P1400 ($35USD) smartphone in the Philippines. Wouldn’t that be great? Well Mozilla is trying to make that happen. With their successful launch of a $33USD smartphone in India, Mozilla is looking at the Philippines to see if there is a market fit for their super low cost smartphone.

“At Mozilla, we’re a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to keep the Internet alive and accessible, so people worldwide can be informed contributors and creators of the Web. We believe this act of human collaboration across an open platform is essential to individual growth and our collective future.”

I had the opportunity to have dinner last night with Gen Kanai, the Director of Asia Community Engagement for Mozilla and 500Startups Mentor to learn more about the phone and play with a developer version. It will be great to see them make this phone a reality in the Philippines.

Would you buy a 1400 PHP smartphone? Learn more

Google’s answer to the low cost smartphone is the Android One, which is cheaper than most smartphones listed at about $100USD.

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Taking Adventure Engineering To The Next Level

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Ian Keen and Melinda MacNamara

At PayrollHero we hire what we call #AdventureEngineers (video) and our team takes that to the next level. From taking avalanche courses to setting up an office in Whistler to touring around Southeast Asia we are all in when it comes to adventure.

What is an Adventure Engineer? Noun: An unusual and exciting, experience or activity built around a flexible work schedule.  

As part of our commitment to being ridiculously client focused we are bringing our Whistler team into Southeast Asia for a few weeks of learning, client meetings, ideation sessions and adventure. What is interesting is that one of our colleagues on the iOS team, Ian Keen’s girlfriend is joining him for the trip. It seems that Adventure Engineers hang out with like minded adventurers. Ian’s girlfriend Mindy is coming to Manila and is set to make the best use of her time. She has reached out to a few orphanages and is going to visit the kids, bring them toys, coloring books and the like. She has setup a GoFundMe page to raise $300 with all proceeds going to Manila kids in need.  Check out her page if you want to support her in her adventure.

Hey Guys, I’ll be in Manila for a month and while I am there I am going to volunteer in an orphanage and do some work with street kids. 

I will be buying some colouring books and crayons, basic food and clothing. Any additional funds will also go towards buying things like this. 

I’ll be posting lots of photos of the places I go and the things I buy. 

Help me to directly help the kids in Manila – every cent raised will go straight to the kids. 

Thanks Mindy

 

 

PS. We are hiring more adventures, from client services, to iOS, Android and Ruby engineers, get in touch with us if you have the chops to be an #AdventureEngineer.

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Are You Ridiculously Client Focused? (HIRING)

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00H0H_jpq1cObRYfe_600x450PayrollHero is looking for ridiculously client focussed leaders to build out the Manila Branch of Customer Support.

With branches in Singapore, Manila and Whistler you will be an integral part of an international startup focussed on disrupting the Time, Attendance, Scheduling, Payroll and Business Intelligence space throughout the billion+ workforce of South Asia!

The majority of the PayrollHero cloud software platform is being hand crafted in Canada by an international team of engineers hailing from France, Australia, India, USA, Canada, Vietnam, Scotland and of course there are few Filipinos for good measure. However, our Client Success team are based here in Manila to be closer to our customers.

Swagger in your application if you:

  • Are comfortable with helping businesses succeed
  • Have an understanding or willingness to learn about payroll
  • 1-2 years of experience in customer facing roles.
  • Live in the stretch
  • Have basic typing skills, knowledge of G-Mail, Google Docs, Google Chrome and familiarity with the internet.
  • Excellent English, both verbal and written.

At PayrollHero you must love figuring out how to make people smile! You will wield a variety of online tools (Groove, Gmail, & Nimble) to engage our clients from around the world.

Come help us make a dent in this huge space – every business around the world reels from the pain of payroll every two weeks!

Your compensation starts at ₱20,000/month. After that it is based entirely on your merit. We are looking for leaders to grow this division; this is your opportunity to cultivate happiness and work towards being a partner.

Oh… almost forgot. We’d like to test you before we begin the application process.

Please complete the following task so that we can get an idea of how you will service with our clients…

You are working for a website that helps clients store and manage their client’s contact info. You get the following email from an angry client. The rest of the team is already off for the night and you can’t reach anyone. Please reply to this email you get from an angry client right away:

“Hi,
I tried to log in again today and the log-in still doesn’t work. Nobody is answering your supposedly 24/7 support line and I am getting incredibly frustrated. I stored all of my employee’s phone numbers on your annoying website and now that I can’t access it, I can’t get in touch with my own employees! This is ridiculous and is killing my business. Do you realize how poor your service is? I have been calling for 3 days and still can’t get anyone to fix this for me.
Please get me out of this site but give me back my client’s contact info first!
-Tim”

Please include your reply to Tim in your application to us by email support at payrollhero.com. Be sure to write a cover letter that is specific to us, we are not down with form letters or random generalized resumes. 

Looking for Fast Internet in the Philippines?

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Screen Shot 2014-08-29 at 11.35.45 AMInternet in the Philippines is not the most reliable. From outages to slow periods it can really affect productivity.

We began using HTech services a few years ago and have not looked back. They utilize both telco’s and have a product that gives you fast internet with uptime guarantees. If you are looking for a solution to your internet issues, check them out. Here is a bit more about them;

“HTech is a value-added services provider that operates one of the largest data communications networks between the Philippines and the U.S. Established in 2003 with a steady customer base of corporate customers, mostly belonging to the BPO and Contact Center industry. Part of the Globalink Holdings – a pioneer in the Philippine outsourcing industry since 1985, and has interests in I.T. Outsourcing, Construction, Horticulture, Food, and Entertainment.

We are focused on providing quality Internet and VPN solutions to mission critical clients who depends heavily on the Internet and Voip applications.

We operate our own KPO and BPO business here in Manila since 1985, to date we have 5,000 employees doing KPO work for offshore clients. Since we operate a large scale Internet based business, we saw the need to be fully redundant so we designed a network where we wont be dependent on local telcos when their IPLC services goes down. This prompted us to build our own fully redundant network between the US and ASIA. Utilizing all the available sub-sea cable facilities available here in Manila . These are C2C,JUCN, TGN IA, TGN P, EAC, PCI , AAG, GP and APCN2 sub-sea cables.”