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The profession that runs in silence is about to get loud.
Payroll controls up to 80% of an organisation's operating expenditure. It holds compliance risk worth millions. It is the reason every employee trusts their employer enough to show up tomorrow.
And yet it remains one of the most strategically undervalued functions in business.
The Payroll Pivot exists to change that.
Nick Day has spent 24 years placing over 10,000 payroll professionals, conducted more than 400 podcast conversations with industry leaders, and coached payroll executives across the globe. This book distils everything he has learned about why brilliant professionals stay invisible, and what happens when they stop.
Inside, you will discover:
- How to move from the back office to the boardroom by translating payroll data into language the C-suite cannot ignore.
- Why fear, not skill, is the hidden force keeping talented professionals silent, and how The Fear Equation offers a way through.
- How AI is not replacing payroll professionals but promoting them, and what it means to become the algorithmic conscience of work.
- Real stories from leaders who made the pivot, from processor to partner, from invisible to indispensable.
- Practical frameworks for building trust, leading with character, and sustaining resilience in a profession that never stops.
- How to claim your seat at the table. Not by waiting for permission. By making yourself impossible to overlook.
The Payroll Pivot is the book the profession has been waiting for. From back office to front line. From transactional to strategic. From Payroll Leader to the Chief Payroll Officers the algorithmic age demands. From invisibility to influence.
Payroll professionals who pivot will shape the future. Those who don't will be shaped by it. This is your pivot
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