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One company goes from a payroll spreadsheet to running properly on Ahlan Hamad — filmed end to end, in 120 short scenes across 9 chapters. Watch through, or jump straight to the scene that answers your question.
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1. Day one — getting set up 5 scenes
- Calculate UAE end-of-service gratuity on basic salary 46s
- Setting up a company that operates in two GCC countries 1:35 min
- Setup wizard, part 2 — you, the bank account, the team 47s
- An AI HR assistant that proposes, then waits for you to confirm 51s
- What you must register before you can employ staff in the UAE 1:12 min
2. Your workforce — one person, then all eighty 11 scenes
- Add an employee by photographing their Emirates ID 2:27 min
- The employee import template, per country 57s
- Import employees from Excel — validated, and all-or-nothing 1:58 min
- Inviting the team — by email or WhatsApp 1:44 min
- The invite funnel — sent, opened, clicked, joined 1:01 min
- Join requests — the three ways into your company 39s
- Bulk edits and a clean export for finance 1:21 min
- Issue a salary certificate in the UAE in about five seconds 37s
- An org chart drawn from the records payroll pays 1:13 min
- Teams and crews that nest inside departments 1:45 min
- Grades, pay bands and next year's headcount plan 38s
3. The daily rhythm 15 scenes
- The leave desk — one queue instead of an inbox 42s
- How UAE public holidays change the annual leave day count 1:20 min
- Approve, reject or cancel a leave request 1:01 min
- How much annual leave an employee has left, and why 53s
- Paying out unused leave — and the two wage bases 2:22 min
- Geofenced clock-in — punch only inside the work zone 1:28 min
- The daily roster, and the correction that leaves a trace 43s
- Lateness and overtime patterns across a month 44s
- How overtime is calculated in the UAE — 25% by day, 50% at night 1:39 min
- Shifts: assigning a week in one action 55s
- Government paperwork with a deadline attached 41s
- Tasks, and the checklist you only build once 50s
- The document library, and the requests it answers 41s
- Getting a document signed by someone with no login 1:58 min
- Laptops, phones, and getting them back 45s
4. Payday 17 scenes
- How to run payroll in the UAE, from zero 51s
- The payroll calendar — cut-off and pay day 2:20 min
- Opening the month — one payroll run per country 2:08 min
- The payroll register — gross, deductions, net 49s
- UAE vs Oman social insurance — what each country deducts 1:04 min
- Hide salaries from staff who run payroll admin — the Privacy Wall 49s
- Editing a draft — overtime, additions, deductions 48s
- Salary advances and loans, with a three-step approval 3:09 min
- Earned wage access — drawing pay already worked for 1:56 min
- The payroll review before you lock the month 1:38 min
- Finalize — and the two things payroll refuses to do 1:21 min
- What WPS is, and why a Gulf state mandates it 42s
- Generating the WPS file — two countries, two formats 2:23 min
- The signature — only the CEO can release payroll 1:14 min
- A bilingual payslip employees can read in Arabic or English 1:57 min
- Correcting payroll after the money moved 1:08 min
- Preparing the monthly social insurance contribution file 2:48 min
5. The law never sleeps 14 scenes
- A single compliance calendar for a Gulf company 54s
- What a trade licence is, and tracking it in two countries 1:07 min
- The licence countdown and risk score 42s
- The expired licence that can stop payday 1:25 min
- Green, amber, red — the whole entity's compliance 1:02 min
- Blast radius — who goes out of status if a licence lapses 1:56 min
- The licence renewal that closes its own loop 46s
- Employee visa expiry and the quota behind hiring 47s
- Emiratisation, priced in dirhams — the fine per missing hire 55s
- Omanization — a 35% target, by sector 47s
- GPSSA and SPF pension contributions, side by side 49s
- The WPS file format your bank actually wants 1:29 min
- Score your GCC HR compliance in sixty seconds 46s
- Opening a company in a new GCC country, in order 46s
6. The employee app 10 scenes
- Employees see their payslip on their own phone 52s
- What an employee's gratuity is worth today 45s
- Get a salary certificate for the bank in ten seconds 2:12 min
- Which leave types UAE labour law actually gives an employee 50s
- Submit a doctor's note by photo, and request an advance 2:15 min
- The locker — employee documents on the phone 37s
- Clocking in from the phone, wherever the work is 45s
- Your week, your tasks and your last review 1:21 min
- Ask Hamad — HR answers grounded in the employee's own country law 1:01 min
- It's their phone — language, dark mode and the app lock 1:33 min
7. Growing people 15 scenes
- Posting a job in English and Arabic 37s
- Your own careers page, in Arabic and English 1:55 min
- The applicant pipeline, six stages, no silent rejections 35s
- The recruiting assistant that drafts, but never decides 1:13 min
- Interviews end to end — scheduling around the Gulf weekend 2:47 min
- Turning a candidate into an employee in one click 2:39 min
- An employee onboarding checklist per country 2:02 min
- Day one, tracked — a new hire's first week 2:27 min
- The review cycle — self-assessment first 39s
- Goals and competencies, written down once 2:32 min
- How to write a performance improvement plan that holds up 2:18 min
- Anonymous pulse surveys, three questions at a time 1:32 min
- The monthly Culture Audit and its shareable grade 1:18 min
- Flight risk scored from your own data, and what to do about it 2:18 min
- Succession cover, and a grievance process with a clock 45s
8. The money view 13 scenes
- A bilingual chart of accounts for a UAE company, in one click 1:55 min
- Two sides to every number — the payroll journal 1:04 min
- Accruing end-of-service every month, before it is owed 1:35 min
- What you would owe if everyone resigned tomorrow 56s
- One leaver, priced to the day — resignation or termination 1:03 min
- Preparing a 5% VAT return worksheet from the ledger 1:35 min
- Bank reconciliation from a CSV or MT940 statement 1:32 min
- Expense claims checked against policy before they are filed 46s
- Corporate cards with controls in front of the spending 47s
- What an employee really costs, per head, per month 1:48 min
- Measure the pay gap from your own payroll records 40s
- The board pack — five standing reports, properly typeset in Arabic 47s
- Free GCC end-of-service calculator — no account needed 1:43 min
9. Exits, trust and control 20 scenes
- Probation, visa and permit dates, ninety days ahead 1:07 min
- Recording a resignation properly, with the reason the law reads 2:05 min
- The offboarding board — everyone on their way out 1:19 min
- Exit clearance in eight sign-offs, per country 1:30 min
- End-of-service in the UAE and Oman — two laws, one page 1:59 min
- Dismissed for cause — gratuity is never silently zeroed 55s
- Unused leave is paid on gross, gratuity on basic — both correct 2:05 min
- The final settlement assembles itself when the exit is recorded 1:30 min
- Experience letter and NOC, in Arabic or English 2:12 min
- Why you archive an employee record and never delete it 1:25 min
- Roles, not people — eight roles with sensitivity levels 1:19 min
- The permission matrix, proved from two different logins 51s
- Lend access while you travel instead of sharing a password 1:32 min
- An audit log with no edit and no delete 1:13 min
- The AI assistant proposes — you confirm, and it is logged 2:14 min
- A Gulf group — several entities, one consolidated view 38s
- Connecting your accounting system — fifteen connectors 1:56 min
- Seven mobile security decisions, written down once 2:02 min
- Set the working week, holidays and approvals once 1:30 min
- Thirty days free, no card — six GCC countries 45s