In November 2020, we launched a live web broadcast series designed to showcase the highly experienced, intelligent and approachable technical and engineering leads at NearForm, called Decoded. This roundtable technology series explores the various technologies used by the team and goes into specifics of applying these tools to create impactful solutions for clients. We say: […]
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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 adapting processes as needed — a task that is much easier said […]
3 Ways to Approach Payroll Implementation
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 similar overhauls in human resources, and the challenge intensifies. […]
The Payroll Efficiency Index
In April 2019, leading global payroll provider CloudPay published the introductory Global edition of the Payroll Efficiency Index, an industry-first benchmarking report of payroll processing KPIs. The unique, centralised platform and servicing model pioneered by CloudPay put the payroll leader in the enviable position of being the only global provider to maintain direct control over […]
The Case for Connection in the Digital Age
The spread of modern technology and its ability to provide us with instant information and communication has transformed our world. Everything from friendship and entertainment to education and industry looks different in the Digital Age. Yet, for all the widespread benefits of this transformation, we’re only beginning to recognize the potential downsides and their effects […]
Why Your Payroll Provider Matters
For a function so integral to the success of any organization, payroll doesn’t get a lot of attention outside of the people who run it. Yet, everyone at a company relies on it, it’s typically the largest cost center, and it tends to be responsible for more up-to-date, company-specific data than any other department. Which […]
The Cost-Saving Side of Payroll Integration
When it comes to selecting and optimizing technology solutions for core business operations, decision-makers often struggle to weigh organizational needs and goals against the cost of modern systems. It’s a balancing act: the business needs a better solution, but it also needs to manage costs. Unfortunately, the challenge of reconciling those two facts often results in […]
Since 2007 the industry-leading business magazine Forbes has ranked the world’s largest economies in order of business friendliness. The annual report draws on data available from multiple renowned sources to evaluate 161 countries according to 15 different factors ranging from taxes and technology to personal freedom. To create their 2019 list of the Best Countries for […]
Payroll Lessons from ‘Superstar’ Companies
In the past few years, leading economists and business analysts have increasingly focused on the rise of superstar firms as a newer phenomenon shaping our global economy. Attaining practical insights from the analysis, however, has been a challenge, in large part because the definition of a ‘superstar’ has varied widely. That changed last year, when the […]
A Guide to Pay Parity Laws Around the World
Although calls for equal pay for equal work have intensified in recent years, the concept is anything but new. Efforts toward improving wage equality date to the early nineteenth century, when newly unionized female workers in industrialized nations like the UK took action to negotiate wages closer to those earned by their male coworkers. The […]