{"id":492015,"date":"2021-05-20T09:17:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T07:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=492015"},"modified":"2021-05-20T09:17:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T07:17:43","slug":"sage-helps-you-increase-business-productivity-by-looking-after-your-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/492015\/sage-helps-you-increase-business-productivity-by-looking-after-your-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage helps you increase business productivity by looking after your employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viresh Harduth is vice president of Small Business at Sage Africa and Middle East, responsible for channel development for Sage\u2019s start-up and small business portfolio, including the Sage Business Cloud Accounting and Payroll and Pastel Partner products.<\/p>\n<p>He was promoted to this role from his previous position as director of Optimisation and Operations at Sage International.<\/p>\n<p>Harduth originally joined Sage in 2013 as a senior pricing strategist for Asia, Australia, Middle East, and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Sage, Harduth was a pricing analyst at FNB Credit Card, and prior to that, he was a financial analyst at FNB Shared Services.<\/p>\n<p>Harduth has a wealth of experience in management, strategic planning, revenue generation, operational process, and business efficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>In the second episode of Business Talk \u2013 Owning it with Sage, Harduth shares how small businesses can look after their employees and increase productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Harduth explains that caring is a two-way street, and points out the advantages for businesses if they prioritise their employees\u2019 wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>By giving employees a voice and providing them with the right tools, business owners can better understand their businesses, make more informed decisions, and provide better outcomes for both staff and customers.<\/p>\n<p>He also shares details of the newly announced partnership between FNB and Sage that simplifies the process of transferring financial transaction history to Sage&#8217;s accounting solutions \u2013 at no cost to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Harduth explains that FNB customers can share their financial transaction history with Sage effortlessly and automatically via a secure application programming interface without compromising their online banking credentials.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Viresh Harduth is embedded below. Find all the Business Talk \u2013 Owning it with Sage interviews <a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/owning-it-with-sage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1fO6gGlQ-cY\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viresh Harduth, vice president of Small Business at Sage Africa and Middle East, shares the business advantages of looking after employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":492017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[15578,15967,15983],"class_list":["post-492015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-talk","tag-owning-it-with-sage","tag-viresh-harduth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492081,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492015\/revisions\/492081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}