The road to global payroll is paved with reactions. Let’s add that it’s paved also with good intentions. We all know where those lead, and an unaddressed global payroll process won’t exactly take you there, but the ride can be rough. This is why, for most organizations, the journey to well-sorted global payroll is long and windy — and bumpy. It is the exceedingly rare employer that sets the table to process global payroll in an efficient way the very first time the need to process global payroll arises. This is what I’ve learned, anyway, from lengthy discussions with executives in this industry. No, almost to the very last one, organizations that become global pretty much never outsource it promptly; instead, they do their best, with best intentions, to process unnecessarily complicated payroll with old-fashioned elbow grease — pay period after pay period. As they grow into an increasing number of locales, regions and countries, they put forth their best efforts to continue crossing all the T’s and dotting all the I’s. And they manage through all the inefficiency to wrestle payroll to its conclusion, compliant with every law affecting it across the globe. That is, until they don’t. The […]
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