HR Support Services

We provide credible, outsourced HR and Employment Law Support for companies in the UK. So, how does HR support business strategy? If you want a successful business strategy, HR is one of the vital components.

Having a good relationship, good communication, high levels of training and motivation in your employees will help you achieve a successful business strategy.

At Wurkplace, we help companies of all sizes with their HR issues and present solutions personalised to each of our clients.

Are you looking for expert HR support services for your business?

Then you’ve come to the right place! HR can seem like a complicated area, especially now as we are all adjusting to the new normal with regards to COVID-19 (including furlough, social distancing + cleaning, home-based working, etc), if your company needs support – we’re here to help!

Are you fed up of your current outsource HR service providers? If you’re feeling ignored by bigger HR companies or let down, then you should consider using Wurkplace instead, we are a small but highly-qualified team of friendly consultants based in the UK, to help fit your businesses needs.

Now more than ever, Wurkplace offers reliable and expert outsourced HR support services and advice for SME businesses. We are a small but dedicated UK-based team made up of highly-qualified consultants that specialise in HR support, Employment Law, Health and Safety Services and Online Training.

We know every business is unique which is why we personalise our services to your business, to ensure you get the best service and advice possible. Whether you need to completely outsource your HR or just need ad-hoc support, we can help!

How we understand your business

We recognise that businesses can come across a multitude of people problems, for various reasons. Often small and medium-sized businesses may not have the resources to have an in-house HR service provider, and many larger companies may find their in-house HR team can struggle to keep up with large levels of HR issues. This is where we come in!

Once you get in touch with us, we will match you with one of our expert HR Consultants (instead of using call centres) who will conduct an initial HR Audit with the aim of getting to know and understand your business, how you are currently managing HR practices and identifying how we can improve or fill the gaps (if any).

After we’ve got to know your business and complete your first HR Audit; we will also provide an accompanying HR Action Plan which will layout clear, simple and transparent actions that will form part of your retainer package and set a timeline for completion by our HR Consultants.

As part of your bespoke HR Action Plan, your business will be able to choose additional recommendations and services that you may need. Wurkplace will be able to execute these additional needs on your behalf.

How Wurkplace is different to other outsourced HR companies

Wurkplace is a small people-focused company that provides HR advice and support for any business, small or large – unlike most other outsource HR providers we are a retainer company and we don’t believe in long-term contracts (allowing you to choose what’s best for your business).

With Wurkplace you will have access to our small team of highly-qualified experts who will then match you with one of our fully-qualified HR Consultants (based in the UK) providing personalised HR advice and support, suited to your company and its specific needs.

Our dedicated HR Helpline and Email service are for the use of your managers and internal HR team as and when you need us.

Our HR management can give your business expert support with a large range of HR issues and with Employment Law advice, including:

• Grievance, disciplinaries, and dismissals
• Sickness absence
• Payroll
• Managing Performance
• Change Management
• Small scale redundancies/restructuring (3 roles or less)
• Family-friendly rights; maternity, paternity, parental rights
• Flexible working
• Discrimination and equality issues
• Harassment and bullying
• Whistleblowing

Dealing with these issues can often be time-consuming, disruptive and expensive. Wurkplace can deal with these issues, this allows your business to focus on what’s important to you.

You will have access to your HR Consultant whenever you need, they can provide you with reassurance and professional guidance. If you want to know more about our services and how they can help you, click here to contact us!

Our Members Suite

As one of our Wurkplace clients, you will have access to our dedicated client portal accessed online – through our website to keep you up to date!

You will then have access to:

• The Manager Guides which accompany the Employee Handbook
• A suite of template documents that accompany each Manager Guides
• A quarterly Employment Law Bulletin
• Policy updates
• GDPR documentation

HR Management Services

Our team of HR Professionals can help you with:

• Employee Contracts – Reviewing your existing employee contracts, checking for consistency and legal compliance. Once reviewed, the team will put in place a consistent employee contract structure at a user or role level. Contracts can be tailored to suit your organisation. Contracts can be stored at a user level, using our online HR solution.
• Employee Handbook – Providing your employees and new starters with an employee handbook. We can create this for you and ensure an electronic audit trail to show new employees have received this and accepted receipt. Our team will always keep this updated with the latest policies and procedures.
• HR Audit – A full audit of your existing processes with our recommendations if required built into a fully costed action plan.
• HR System – Implementation of a compliant HR System which allows you to securely store important documents including personnel files.
• Employment Law – Handling employment law issues including disciplinary situations, immigration, redundancies, probationary periods, TUPE, disputes, grievances, sickness absence and holidays.
• Optional Legal Expenses Insurance – To the value of £100,000, to protect you against employment tribunal costs.
• Monthly HR Updates – Including the latest policies and procedures.
• Specific Projects – Such as employee onboarding, leadership development programmes or bespoke training packages.

Legal Compliance

We will always ensure that you have robust and legally compliant essential documents to give you the peace of mind that you need. We will conduct a review of your Employee Handbook and Contracts of Employments providing expert feedback and ensuring that your documents are up to date, legal and fit for purpose.

For a FREE consultation with one of our qualified HR experts, fill in our online contact form. Alternatively, to speak to an adviser about our HR support services – call 0330 400 5490.

Case Study

A leading document management company named cleardata came to us seeking full HR support and an implementation of a brand new HR system.

cleardata are a fast-growing business that is based in Newcastle, with offices now in London and Hawarden and they specialise in document scanning, data capture, archive storage and document processing services.

When they approached us, cleardata had no real HR procedures in place and they were operating on old contracts and handbooks, which needed an urgent update. There were no director contracts or job roles in place, and we needed to change this quickly.

cleardata had good management in places, but HR had been placed on the backburner because of the fast-growing rate of the business. This is why cleardata enlisted Wurkplace’s help to give them structure and updated their procedures. We went in and gave them a full action plan, which was analysed over a 30/60/90 day period.

There was a lot of work to be done regarding their contracts, so we reconstructed them and split them into contracts for directors, managers and employees. They also needed a way to manage their staff more effectively and a system for keeping track of holidays, absence, etc. Lucky for them, Wurkplace had the answer.

The implementation of our HR system provided cleardata with the easily management tool they needed, allowing them to track holidays and absence easier. This was good news for the payroll department, as they were able to keep track of this information and implement it into the system.

Now that all of these new procedures had been put in place, things were a lot easier to manage. Two years on and cleardata are now taking out more management and training courses with us, training their directors and managers. We look forward to continuingly working with them for years to come.

“Wurkplace have been an essential part of shaping cleardata to what it is today. We are very thankful for the hard work and dedication they provided when it came to establishing structure in the business. We couldn’t imagine going anywhere else for all of our HR needs. We’re excited to keep working alongside Wurkplace for the foreseeable future.”