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A current line of thinking is that Payroll is a risk to have as an in-house function; some organisations have experienced problems when their regular Payroll person has been off sick for any significant period of time.

Instead of re-distributing the relevant FTE by employing two people each doing half time with an agreement to cover for the other, they look to outsource the Payroll, leaving any queries to be dealt with by HR.