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The Payroll Performance Checklist

Technology is advancing faster than most global organizations can consider their current needs, a reality that carries particular weight when it comes to essential functions like payroll. While the beginning of the millennium saw significant advancements in software solutions for areas like human resources, sales, and IT, payroll today is keeping pace and even furthering related systems […]

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The Trouble with Fragmented Payroll

It’s a long-standing story in the payroll industry that one provider can’t satisfy all the payroll needs of a global company. With all the differing regulations and constantly changing requirements, the story goes, only local or regional providers have the expertise and access needed to properly process payroll across various locations. The fault in this […]

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What Is Global Payroll?

Although payroll is one of the more fundamental business needs, our understanding of the function and its implications remains minimal at best. In fact, many business leaders rarely consider payroll beyond the basic requirement of paying employees, failing to realize the strategic value of this core function, which often represents the largest cost center of […]

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Managing the Impact of GDPR on Remote Workers

The General Data Protection Regulation has been in effect since May; however, the full impact and implications of GDPR are still to be seen and understood. Although companies around the world have been preparing for the new regulations for years, it is estimated that as many as 80% of affected organizations will fall short of the legislation’s […]

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5 Ways Automation Is Changing Payroll

Much has been said of late about automation in payroll—frankly, because there’s a lot to say. The increasing adoption of robotic process automation, or RPA, in global payroll technology and solutions has given rise to some of the most dramatic changes this industry has seen since the advent of the cloud. From time and cost savings […]

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Embracing Compliance as Opportunity

2018 was always going to be the landmark year in which compliance goals, needs, and worries took center stage in global business. MiFID II, PSD2, GDPR, and many other acronyms have been dictating strategic discussions and preemptive planning across enterprises for years. Now we have arrived into the newly regulated normal, in which organizations of […]

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The Impact of Contingent Labor on Global Payroll

The rise of the contingent workforce has signaled an important, if not expected, evolution of the way we do business. Suddenly specific skills can be acquired as needed, where and when they are required. The inherent possibilities of a contingent workforce are generally mutually beneficial, balancing the changing needs of companies with the way more […]

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How Integration Is Shaping the Future of Payroll

For years major organisations around the world have been adopting and upgrading enterprise technology solutions to improve essential business functions, most notably in HR, Finance and Sales. Recently the digital transformation has extended to the payroll function, a development that appears perfectly timed with the next key step for companies looking to improve their performance […]

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Four Key Benefits of Single-Source Payroll Data

The unprecedented volume of data produced, collected, shared, and stored on a daily basis has become a hallmark of the modern working world. Amid growing demands for data protection and transparency, and evolving regulatory requirements like GDPR, it is clear to both companies and consumers that our masses of data require the best management methods […]

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FFI and Emisoft: Environmental Defence

Emisoft helps the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment measure environmental impact & achieve enviable sustainability goals. In the spring of 2005, Norway’s Minister of Defence, Kristin Krohn Devold, stood before members of the press addressing questions about the country’s armed forces training when a reporter asked, “Do you have access to data for environmental emissions from […]