Practical guides on statutory compliance, payroll, performance and workforce strategy — written for businesses operating in East and Southern Africa.
The Housing Levy looks like the simplest line on a Kenyan payslip. The mistakes come from its base, its employer match and the way it now interacts with PAYE.
By StepUp HR Experts
High-performing organizations eliminate friction. Discover how ESS transforms HR from bottleneck to strategic advantage.
By StepUp Team
Lenders spend heavily on systems to manage loans and very little on systems to manage the people who make them. That imbalance shows up in payroll, attendance and performance.
By StepUp Team
A loan officer's real performance is already measured every day in the portfolio. Most review processes ignore it, and the ones that use it often measure the wrong thing.
By StepUp HR Experts
HELB repayment is the employee's debt, but once the employer is notified, deducting and remitting it becomes the employer's obligation, with penalties to match.
By StepUp HR Experts
The three deductions on a Ugandan payslip, what each is charged on, and the one that catches almost everyone out.
By StepUp HR Experts
Every employee needs a P9 to file their return, and every error on it comes back to HR. Most of those errors were made in January, not in the month the P9 is printed.
By StepUp HR Experts
SHIF is not NHIF with new numbers. It is a different calculation on a different base, and a table left over from the old scheme is wrong for everybody.
By StepUp HR Experts
The last payslip is the one an employee scrutinises most closely and the one HR is most likely to calculate by hand. A checklist for getting it right in Kenya.
By StepUp HR Experts
Why NSSF is two separate contributions rather than one, where the upper earnings limit bites, and the configuration error that survives for years.
By StepUp HR Experts
Every shift-based business has a plan for absences. For most, it is a supervisor's phone and a list of people who usually say yes. That works until it does not.
By StepUp Team
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda do not run the same calculation with different numbers. They run structurally different calculations.
By StepUp Team
Most organisations would never let one person approve their own payment to a supplier. Many let one person prepare, approve and release payroll every month.
By StepUp Team
Relief belongs to the taxpayer, not the employment. When two employers both apply it, the shortfall lands on the employee.
By StepUp HR Experts
Most unfair dismissal cases are not lost because the employer was wrong about the misconduct. They are lost because the employer cannot show a fair process.
By StepUp HR Experts
Onboarding is usually designed around the paperwork the company needs. Almost everything that predicts retention happens somewhere else.
By StepUp Team
Every new branch adds a manager with their own habits for leave, attendance and records. By the tenth, head office is managing ten small companies.
By StepUp Team
Sign-in sheets, WhatsApp messages and trust do not scale past a certain headcount. What geofenced clock-in actually solves, and what it does not.
By StepUp Team
Growth is exciting — but managing people gets harder; learn how StepUp HRM removes friction and turns HR into a growth engine.
By StepUp Team
Discover why Step-Up HRM is the leading HR solution in 2026 for Kenyan and East African businesses.
By StepUp HR Experts
Transform HR from administration to strategic intelligence with real-time analytics
By StepUp Analytics Team
Discover how HR digitization transforms from cost center to strategic advantage with measurable ROI.
By StepUp HR Experts
Stop year-end compliance chaos. Discover how digital HRMS eliminates manual errors and automates statutory filings.
By StepUp HR Experts
Untaken leave sits on your books whether or not anyone is tracking it. Most organizations discover the size of it at the worst possible moment.
By StepUp Analytics Team
Transform HR from a cost center to your company's most powerful profit engine.
By StepUp Team
Organisations spend a day on training, tick the box and find six months later that very little changed. The problem is usually the format, not the content.
By StepUp Team
Many Kenyan employers pay some staff by bank and others by M-Pesa. The payments are easy; keeping them reconciled with payroll is where things slip.
By StepUp Team
Rwanda has the shortest deduction list in the region and the one calculation order that most payroll systems get wrong.
By StepUp HR Experts
A new HR system is only as good as the data you put into it. The organisations that switch smoothly spend a week tidying their records first.
By StepUp Team
Payroll is not just administrative — it's your largest expense and most sensitive employee touchpoint.
By StepUp Team
Walk into any growing company and you'll feel it the culture. But culture is fragile slow HR processes erode trust.
By StepUp Team
How trust-driven HR systems are becoming the ultimate competitive advantage in East Africa's talent war.
By StepUp Team
Most interviews are friendly conversations that measure how much the interviewer liked the candidate. A little structure measures whether they can do the job.
By StepUp HR Experts
Two obligations that never appear as employee deductions, are frequently left out of cost-of-hire budgets, and are easy to misplace on a payslip.
By StepUp HR Experts
How StepUp HRM helps Kenyan businesses move from spreadsheets and siloed systems to a modern, compliant, and scalable HR platform.
By StepUp Team
Statutory changes, KRA updates, payroll guidance and practical templates — sent when there is something worth reading, not on a schedule.
