The final quarter of the year is always a hectic period for payroll professionals, with all eyes firmly fixed on the impending closure of year-end. It’s typically a busy time for our HR and finance associates too - as preparation peaks ahead of the new year, and insightful reflections emerge on the twelve months past. Read More
Expanding a business across international borders involves addressing a long list of considerations — and the question of how to pay a global workforce should be near the top. Three different models of global payroll have developed over the years, and while each one is workable, they definitely are not equal. Read More
Digital transformation projects are among the most challenging initiatives an organization can ever face — especially when that project is being rolled out on a global scale. Many such projects fail to launch, and many more fail to deliver on their promises. But when executed successfully, they can change the game for Read More
The successful implementation of global payroll often hinges on the strategic engagement of a wide array of stakeholders. In part one of this two-part blog, we looked at how to identify and ‘map’ these stakeholders according to their interest and influence - a fundamental starting point for the creation of that Read More
There can be few internal business projects that truly impact every employee in an organization - but the roll-out of a global payroll solution is one. The successful implementation of global payroll typically depends on your ability to manage the people side of the process as much as the technical side, requiring Read More
The challenge of protecting company, employee, and consumer data is an evolving, ever-present factor in global business today. For large enterprises and small multinationals alike, maintaining compliance with existing and incoming legislation across operations means staying on top of changing global requirements while Read More
The introduction of new rules around the IR35 legislation in the United Kingdom has payroll teams and self-employed workers trying to understand if and how they are affected. They’ll have to decide soon: from April 6, 2020, organizations receiving services from individual workers through their own personal service Read More
Many of the world’s biggest brands are focusing on the employee experience (EX) to ensure they either become, or maintain their status as an employer of choice in their market. Investment in employee experience programs is growing exponentially, and research suggests it is money well spent - with a study by Harvard Read More
No matter how it is planned, implementing a global payroll solution is a tremendous undertaking. Just gathering the information required and plotting the sequence of country rollouts can be daunting for even experienced project managers. Add in the fact that a large number of payroll transformations coincide with Read More
While still some way behind the analytical maturity of HR, payroll is steadily playing catch-up - with previously unexplored salary data now increasing its presence in HR analytics. Yet in most organizations, the use of payroll data for insight remains basic, typically limited to identifying remuneration trends and Read More
A positive employee experience sits at the heart of HR management strategies today, and with good reason. The latest research from Gallup found that just 34% of employees in the US are engaged at work, leaving two-thirds of the workforce either not engaged or, worse, “actively disengaged.” So it makes sense that Read More
