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class=\"post_date\">\n\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\tOctober 8, 2026\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"post_by\">Posted by:\t\t\t\t<span>AscentHR<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"post_cat\">Categories:\t\t\t\t<span>Authored Article, In the Press<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<div class=\"comments_num\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ascent-hr.com\/en-ph\/resources\/in-the-press\/compliance-is-not-a-burden-its-a-competitive-advantage-for-growing-businesses\/#respond\"><i class=\"fa fa-comment-o\"><\/i>No Comments <\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post_thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"988\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/ascent-hr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SME-Futures_in-the-press-988x550.webp\" class=\"attachment-consulting-image-1110x550-croped size-consulting-image-1110x550-croped wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" 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class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f5f335 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8f5f335\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/smefutures.com\/compliance-is-not-a-burden-its-a-competitive-advantage-for-growing-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" src=\"https:\/\/ascent-hr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SME_Futures_logo-300x54.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-37562\" alt=\"SME Futures publication logo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ascent-hr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SME_Futures_logo-300x54.webp 300w, https:\/\/ascent-hr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SME_Futures_logo.webp 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da938d2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"da938d2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>For a growing business, compliance can sometimes feel like a moving target. Regulations change, obligations multiply as the organisation grows, and requirements can vary across states, locations and employee categories. When much of this work is managed through spreadsheets, emails, manual calculations and individual knowledge, compliance can become time-consuming and vulnerable to error.<\/p>\n<p>But compliance does not have to be a drag on growth. In fact, when designed well, it can become an important business capability\u2014one that reduces risk, strengthens employee trust, improves operational discipline and gives management greater confidence to scale.<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly relevant for India\u2019s MSME sector. The Ministry of MSME\u2019s current data highlights the scale of this ecosystem: Udyam and Udyam Assist Platform registrations together stood at about 81.9 million as of April 2026, with the sector accounting for 31.1% of GDP in FY2023-24 and 48.58% of India\u2019s goods and services exports in FY2024-25. The Ministry also reports employment of approximately 363 million.<\/p>\n<p>For enterprises of this scale and diversity, the question is not whether compliance matters. It is how to make compliance manageable as the business grows.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The MSME compliance challenge<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>For a large organisation, compliance activities can be distributed across dedicated legal, HR, payroll, finance, risk and technology teams. An MSME may have one HR or finance professional managing several of these responsibilities simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>That difference matters.<\/p>\n<p>A regulatory update may require changes to payroll. A change in employee classification may affect statutory contributions. A new state location may create additional registrations or reporting requirements. Maintaining records, tracking deadlines and responding to employee queries can consume considerable management time.<\/p>\n<p>The Economic Survey 2024-25 recognised this challenge, noting that regulatory compliance burdens can hold back formalisation and labour productivity, while limiting employment growth, innovation and business expansion. It also highlighted digitisation as part of the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>For an MSME, therefore, the cost of compliance is not limited to statutory payments or professional fees. Management attention is itself a scarce resource. The objective should be to use that resource intelligently.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The limits of manual compliance<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Manual processes are not inherently wrong. They are often the starting point for a business. The difficulty arises when the business continues to depend on them after its complexity has increased.<\/p>\n<p>Consider a payroll process that requires data to move between spreadsheets, emails and multiple applications. Each additional hand-off introduces the possibility of an incorrect input, a missed validation or an outdated version of information. Similarly, maintaining statutory calendars manually can make it difficult to distinguish what has been completed from what is pending.<\/p>\n<p>These risks become more significant when employees, entities or locations increase.<\/p>\n<p>The SIDBI MSME Outlook Survey, Round 5, provides a useful perspective in the context of India\u2019s labour-code transition. Around 35% of surveyed MSMEs identified increased compliance costs as a challenge; 18% cited lack of clarity on provisions, 12% pointed to technology and digital-infrastructure gaps, and 19% identified the need for training and awareness.<\/p>\n<p>These findings suggest that technology alone is not the answer. Technology, clarity and capability have to progress together.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>HRTech can change the economics of compliance<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This is where HR technology can play a meaningful role.<\/p>\n<p>A modern HRTech platform can bring employee records, payroll, statutory calculations, workflows, approvals and reporting into a connected environment. Instead of repeatedly moving information between systems, organisations can establish a more reliable data foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Automation can then take over appropriate repetitive activities.<\/p>\n<p>For example, systems can:<br \/>\u2022 trigger reminders for statutory deadlines;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 validate payroll and employee data;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 apply configured rules consistently;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 identify exceptions for human review;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 maintain digital records and audit trails;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 route approvals to designated owners;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 generate recurring reports; and<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 provide management dashboards on compliance status.<\/p>\n<p>The value is not simply saving a few hours of administrative effort. It is about reducing dependence on memory and manual intervention. That distinction becomes important as an MSME moves from founder-led operations to professionally managed growth.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>From reactive compliance to continuous compliance<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>A mature compliance model should also change the timing of intervention.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A traditional approach often asks: <strong><em>Did we complete the requirement?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A more effective approach asks: <strong><em>Can we identify a potential issue before it becomes a compliance failure?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Data and automation make that possible.<\/p>\n<p>A system can flag an exception before payroll is processed, identify missing employee information before a statutory submission, or alert an owner when an action is approaching its deadline.<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly important as regulations evolve. The FICCI-EY Risk Survey 2026 found that 67% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that regulatory changes need to be addressed. Forty percent said their compliance frameworks struggle to keep pace with regulatory shifts, while 39% identified limitations in technology, budgets or resources as constraints in managing compliance demands.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson for business leaders is straightforward: compliance cannot begin when a deadline arrives. Organisations need a mechanism to identify change, understand its impact, assign responsibility and translate requirements into operational action.<\/p>\n<p>Technology can provide alerts and workflows. But management judgement remains essential.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The labour-code transition is a useful example<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>India\u2019s labour-code transition illustrates both the challenge and the opportunity. The four Labour Codes\u2014the Code on Wages, Industrial Relations Code, Code on Social Security, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code\u2014came into effect on 21 November 2025, consolidating 29 central labour laws. The government has highlighted measures including single registration, single returns, web-based inspections and greater use of technology in compliance.<\/p>\n<p>For MSMEs, simplification at the regulatory level is important. But simplification in legislation does not automatically translate into simplicity in day-to-day operations. Businesses still need to understand what applies to them, configure processes correctly, maintain employee data, update payroll structures, communicate changes and retain appropriate evidence.<\/p>\n<p>This is where technology can bridge the gap between regulatory intent and operational execution.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Compliance is also about employees<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>There is another dimension that deserves greater attention: employee trust.<\/p>\n<p>For employees, compliance is not an abstract corporate requirement. It can directly affect wages, statutory benefits, social security, employment documentation, leave, working conditions and the handling of personal information.<\/p>\n<p>Accurate and timely payroll is therefore both a compliance responsibility and an employee-experience responsibility. When employee information is maintained accurately, payroll calculations are consistent and statutory obligations are handled transparently, businesses reduce avoidable disputes and strengthen confidence among their workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The new Labour Codes themselves reinforce this connection by establishing requirements around minimum wages, timely payment of wages, appointment letters, social security and workplace protections. For an MSME competing for talent, responsible employment practices can become part of its employee value proposition.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Simplicity should be the goal<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Digitising a complicated process does not automatically make it better. Businesses should first ask whether the underlying process is necessary, clearly owned and proportionate to the risk.<\/p>\n<p>EY\u2019s 2024 GCC Pulse Survey found that 75% of GCCs highlighted simplified compliance processes as important for growth and expansion. The same principle applies to growing businesses. Organisations should eliminate duplicate data entry, consolidate overlapping checks, automate routine activities and ensure that every important compliance obligation has a clearly accountable owner.<\/p>\n<p>The objective should be simplicity with control-not complexity in the name of control.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Build the capability before you need it<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>For MSMEs, compliance maturity should evolve alongside business maturity. A useful progression is to move from: <strong>manual records<\/strong> \u2192 <strong>structured processes<\/strong> \u2192 <strong>integrated systems<\/strong> \u2192 <strong>automated controls<\/strong> \u2192 <strong>data-led oversight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The journey does not have to happen overnight. Businesses can begin with their highest-risk or highest-volume processes-typically payroll, statutory compliance, employee records and reporting &#8211; and gradually expand.<\/p>\n<p>The important thing is to build scalable foundations rather than repeatedly redesigning processes as the business grows.<\/p>\n<p>This is also where cybersecurity and data resilience become important. As HR and compliance processes become digital, employee and business information becomes increasingly dependent on technology. Access controls, secure data handling, backup, auditability and appropriate governance therefore need to develop alongside automation.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Compliance as a growth capability<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The strongest reason to rethink compliance is not simply to avoid penalties. It is to create an organisation that can grow without losing control. For an MSME, that can mean fewer manual interventions, better visibility, more reliable payroll and employee data, quicker response to regulatory change and greater confidence when engaging with larger customers, investors or business partners.<\/p>\n<p>It can also make the organisation more attractive as it moves from an informal operating model towards institutionalised processes and larger opportunities. The leadership question should therefore evolve from \u201c<strong>Are we compliant today?<\/strong>\u201d to \u201c<strong>Have we built the capability to remain compliant as we grow?<\/strong>\u201d. That is a more strategic question and increasingly, an important one. Compliance should not be treated as the price a business pays for operating. Nor should technology be adopted simply because it is available.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity lies in bringing the two together: clear regulatory understanding, accountable processes, reliable data and intelligent technology. When that happens, compliance can do more than protect the business. It can improve how the business operates. For India\u2019s growing MSMEs, that can translate into reduced risk, greater employee trust, stronger operational efficiency and a more resilient platform for sustainable growth.<\/p>\n<p>Compliance, when designed intelligently, is not a constraint on ambition. It is part of the infrastructure that allows ambition to scale.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4afd74 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e4afd74\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 7px 0;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Subramanyam<\/strong> is the<b> Founder <\/b>and<b> CEO <\/b>of <b>Ascent HR Technologies<\/b>. A corporate lawyer and entrepreneur, he brings over 30 years of experience across legal, finance, HR, and business management. A Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, he founded AscentHR in 2002 and has led its evolution into a multi-geography, full-service HR technology company.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9d56c19 elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"9d56c19\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d5724f elementor-widget elementor-widget-stm_sidebar\" data-id=\"9d5724f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"stm_sidebar.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"stm_sidebar consulting_elementor_sidebar\">\n\n            \t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"17483\" 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