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Plain answers on hiring, payroll and compliance.
Guides from the team that runs payroll for 3,000+ people on its rolls. Written to be useful, and checked before they go out.
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- workforce-models
Payrolling vs Outsourcing vs Permanent Hiring: Which Model Fits?
Who finds the people, who employs them and who carries compliance, compared model by model.
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How a Monthly Statutory Compliance Calendar Works for PF, ESIC, PT and TDS
What goes on the calendar, who owns each line and how to stop deadlines slipping.
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What Is a Compliance Closure, and When Do You Need One?
The signs your statutory records have fallen behind, and how a structured clean-up works.
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Hire-and-Deploy Staffing Explained for Factories and Warehouses
How on-our-rolls staffing works on the shop floor, who is responsible for what, and where it goes wrong.
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Temp-to-Hire: When It Works, and When It Doesn't
Where trying before hiring pays off, where it backfires, and the terms to agree upfront.
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How to Choose a Payroll Outsourcing Partner: A Buyer's Checklist
Twelve questions to ask before you hand over payroll and statutory filings.
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Payroll Compliance in India: PF, ESIC, PT and TDS Explained for Growing Companies
The four statutory obligations every payroll touches, where companies slip, and how to stay penalty-free.
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Questions, answered
What does Novelworx Insights cover?
Novelworx Insights publishes practical guides on staffing and workforce models, payrolling, payroll and statutory compliance for PF, ESIC, Professional Tax and TDS, labour law, and HR operations in India. Each guide draws on Novelworx's own work recruiting, employing and paying 3,000+ people on its rolls for clients across 10+ industries.
What is payroll outsourcing?
Payroll outsourcing means a specialist runs a company's salary processing, payslips, statutory deductions, bank transfers and filings such as PF, ESIC, Professional Tax and TDS, while employees stay on the company's rolls. Novelworx runs full-cycle payroll through a central HRIS, and clients typically save 20–40% against in-house teams.
What is staff augmentation?
Staff augmentation adds skilled people to your team for a set period without hiring them onto your own payroll. Novelworx provides IT staff augmentation and temp-to-hire across India. It employs the professionals on Novelworx rolls and manages their payroll and compliance, so you add capacity quickly with less employment risk.
What is payrolling in India?
Payrolling is an employment model in which a company chooses its own workers and a payrolling firm employs them on its rolls. Novelworx offers payrolling as You Hire, We Manage. It runs onboarding, payroll, PF, ESIC, Professional Tax, TDS, leave and exits for the people the client has chosen.
What is a statutory compliance calendar?
A statutory compliance calendar lists every deposit, return and renewal an employer owes, such as PF, ESIC, Professional Tax and TDS, with due dates, owners and status. Novelworx keeps one for each client across every state the client operates in, and works ahead of deadlines rather than reacting to them.