When do we get paid?
Salaries are paid on the 25th of each month. If the 25th falls on a weekend, you're paid on the last working day before it.
- Staff handbook: Pay and expenses Salaries are paid on the 25th, or the last working day before it.
Your company,
explained properly.
Forematter answers your team's questions from your own approved documents, shows where every answer came from, and passes anything it can't answer to the person who owns it.
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When do we get paid?
Salaries are paid on the 25th of each month. If the 25th falls on a weekend, you're paid on the last working day before it.
- Staff handbook: Pay and expenses Salaries are paid on the 25th, or the last working day before it.
- Answers from your own documentsOnly the ones your admins approve.
- A named owner behind every answerWith the date it was last updated.
- It says when it doesn't knowThen asks the person who does.
- Private by defaultNobody reads a conversation without telling the employee first.
How it works
From the documents you already have to answers people trust
- Add what you haveUpload PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown or text. Each file is screened before it's used.
- Mark what's trueSet each document's authority, a review date, an owner and who can see it.
- People askAnswers come only from approved documents, with the source, its date and its owner.
- Gaps go to a personWhen there's no good answer, you can send the question to whoever owns the topic.
- Answers are keptAn admin can save a reply as an answer, so the next person gets it straight away.
People stay in charge
When it doesn't know, it asks the person who does
It never guesses. A question with no approved answer can go to the person who owns that topic. The employee sees who that is and exactly what will be shared, and nothing is sent until they choose to.
1 · No approved answer
Example
Can I get a standing desk?
There's no approved answer to this yet. The person who owns equipment requests can answer it.
Maya BrooksOffice and equipment
Only this question and your name are sent. The rest of the conversation stays private.
2 · A person answers
Can I get a standing desk?
Maya Brooks replied
Yes. Fill in the equipment request form and I'll order one within a week.
3 · Saved for next time
Can I get a standing desk?
Yes. Fill in the equipment request form and it will be ordered within a week.
- Saved answer
Onboarding
A paced first few weeks, not a pile of documents on day one
Short modules are built from the same approved documents: explainers, introductions, quick checks, policy acknowledgements and small tasks. Nothing reaches a new starter until an admin publishes it, and every acknowledgement records the exact wording they saw.
- Day 1Welcome to Brightwater StudioExplainerDone
- Day 1Meet your teamIntroductionsDone
- Day 3Hours, leave and payQuick checkToday
- Day 4Leave policyAcknowledgementUpcoming
- Day 5Book a test leave requestTaskUpcoming
Privacy
Private by default, and never quietly otherwise
Conversations belong to the employee. A company can let admins and an employee's own line manager read them, but only after the employee has been told, only what they ask after that, and every read is recorded where they can see it.
Your company's admins and your line manager can read these conversations. You acknowledged this on 3 Oct. Anything you asked before then stays private.
Who has read them
- Sam Carter (your line manager)
- A company admin
Who it's for
Built for everyone a new starter meets
Guides
Plain-English guides to onboarding in the UK
- AI HR assistants: what they can and can't answer for your staffWhat AI HR assistants do well and badly for a small UK company, the five rules to insist on, and what the ICO and ACAS say about privacy, monitoring and checking AI output.
- Does a small business need HR? What UK law expects you to coverWhether a UK small business needs an HR person: the duties the law puts on the employer (written statement, right to work, payroll and pensions, holiday and sick pay, health and safety, staff data, the Acas Code), when a founder or office manager can cover them, signs you need help, and the options from free Acas advice to an employment solicitor.
- Do you need an employee handbook? What UK law actually requiresWhether UK law requires a handbook (it doesn't), what must be in writing anyway, the Acas Code's 25% rule, and health and safety paperwork.
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