Got your employee email addresses? It's crazy not to.

Over the past few months of working on auto-enrolment projects, we’ve turned up one piece of information that most employers have space for on the payroll file, but few are ever filled in - employee email addresses. Unless you have electronic payslips, they’re mostly a nice to have on a payroll file aren’t they? Not for much longer…

The default communication strategy for the majority of UK pension providers is email. For them it’s simply a matter of cost, the fewer paper communications they have to send out, the less money they have to spend on auto-enrolment. So their default is to send as much as they possibly can be email to your employees. If you want to send paper statutory notifications to your employees, you have to print & post them yourself (another job you didn’t want!). Don’t forget that these communications are a legal requirement so if you don’t send them out, then you’re liable to get fined.

So having employee emails on file, whether work or personal, will make your life so much easier.
 

Rob Barksfield

Auto-enrolment Consultant

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7893 3456

Email:  contactus@broadstoneltd.co.uk