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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 […]

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Prioritizing Data Visibility in a Security-Focused World

Compliance, performance, efficiency—it can be tough to prioritize goals within a global data management strategy. Depending on your yearly objectives, regulatory demands, and market opportunities, data quality and security can seem more urgent, complicated, or beneficial in widely varying ways. Continually developing technologies, like cloud-based services and process automation, have enabled multinational companies to recognise the […]

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Seize the Data: 5 Ways to Benefit from Payroll Analytics and Big Data

Big data may be nothing new to global businesses today; however, the means for analyzing big data in payroll are relatively recent developments. Just as they have embraced the advantages of technology and automation in HR, finance, and marketing, successful multinationals are now exploring the potential that has laid right there, in their biggest data […]

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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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A History of Global Payroll Models, Part 2

In the wake of Y2K, the newly interconnected world began seeking ways to reconcile a reality that was increasingly, permanently, dependent on data with growing fears of that data being compromised. An amazing cycle had begun, in which the use of data resulted in the creation of more data, which contained ever more valuable and […]

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A History of Global Payroll Models, Part 1

Technology has a way of injecting a peculiar sense of selective amnesia into culture. For the overwhelming majority of human history, people couldn’t communicate across vast distances. The telephone itself is less than 150 years old. Yet today it’s difficult to imagine not having a phone in your pocket capable of calling anywhere in the […]

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3 Steps to a Better Business Case for Global Payroll

Among multinational organizations of all sizes, payroll and HR team members are increasingly recognizing the benefits of adopting a unified global payroll solution. It’s easy to see how switching from a fragmented collection of legacy systems to a single solution can help standardize processes, reduce errors, and improve productivity and efficiency levels over time. Making a […]

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A History of Global Payroll Models, Part 1

Technology has a way of injecting a peculiar sense of selective amnesia into culture. For the overwhelming majority of human history, people couldn’t communicate across vast distances. The telephone itself is less than 150 years old. Yet today it’s difficult to imagine not having a phone in your pocket capable of calling anywhere in the […]