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Monday, October 26, 2026

Workforce risk is no longer just an HR problem. Here's why - hcamag.com

Dayforce says workforce risk has outgrown HR and many organisations lack the visibility to catch it

Organisations across Australia and New Zealand are facing workforce risks that are no longer contained within HR and payroll, according to Dayforce, which says that consequences can be financial, operational, and reputational.

The workforce technology company said HR professionals are contending with a confluence of pressures, from intricate Awards and enterprise agreements to rising labour costs and increasingly fragmented workforce structures.

"One of the biggest challenges is that workforce risk rarely starts and stops with HR or payroll," Dayforce said.

"Across Australia and New Zealand, organisations are navigating complex Awards and enterprise agreements, changing compliance expectations, rising labour costs and increasingly complicated workforce structures."

The visibility problem

Dayforce said many organisations are still managing critical workforce information across disconnected HR, payroll, time, and rostering systems.

"That creates an important visibility challenge," Dayforce said. "An underpayment, for example, appears in payroll, but the underlying issue can start much earlier — in workforce data, rostering, time capture, interpretation of rules, or a manual process between systems."

The consequences are not merely administrative, as the fallout can extend well beyond a payroll correction, touching an organisation's finances, operations and reputation.

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