This special episode is part three of a three-part series featuring executive conversations recorded LIVE from the 42nd annual Payroll Congress in Denver, CO, in May of 2023! Join host Pete A. Tiliakos as he sits down with practitioners, leaders, and executives from across the payroll and payments marketplace to discuss a range of workplace trends, challenges, and the emerging tech and solutions shaping the future of pay! Thank you to Dawn Taylor, Senior Accounts Payable Manager at Breckenridge Grand Vacations for a great conversation, and to The Source by DailyPay for their generosity in hosting these sessions and sharing them with the HR & Payroll 2.0 audience! Our HR & Payroll 2.0 Series is also available as a podcast on the following platforms: Apple […]
Continue readingGuest Workday Podcast #WDAYChats: Innovation in Global Payroll
Pete Tiliakos, joins Anita Lettink and Anke Mogannam for #WDAYChats, sharing their insights and POV’s on modern payroll operations and how payroll leaders can help their organizations minimize cost and accelerate innovation.
Continue reading#HRandPayroll20: Global Payroll or Global EOR? with Special Guest Kira Rubiano
On this episode, Pete and Julie welcome VP of Payroll Operations for Atlas and all-around global payroll pro, Kira Rubiano to the show! After getting to know Kira and her “path to payroll”, the group discusses the current and future state of global payroll, including the difference between global payroll and global EOR and how they uniquely support multinational organizations. They also explore how technology is shaping the payroll experience and profession, the path to payroll’s elusive “seat at the table”, and tips and insights for moving payroll forward in the modern organization! Pulse Survey HR and payroll practitioners, leaders, and executives are encouraged to join our current pulse survey, What Makes Leave Management the #1 Pain Point – and How to Fix It? Be […]
Continue readingCriterion Guest Blog Article: An Under-Performing HR Process Gets Reimagined: Introducing “Immersive Onboarding”
For Context Let’s start with two compelling but also startling data points from credible industry surveys: 30% of new employees voluntarily leave their jobs within the first 90 days 28% of employees do not feel fully connected to their company’s purpose or missionSurvey sources included within the hyperlinks Related to the first research finding, the direct cost of voluntary turnover is well-chronicled, with estimates often approximating one or two times annual salary based on the fully loaded cost of recruiting, lost productivity, etc. These costs are often considerably higher when one considers the likely disruptive effect on other colleagues and business areas. And regarding staff who do not feel meaningfully connected to the mission of their employing organization, they probably also don’t feel connected to […]
Continue readingUKG Press Release – UKG One View Earns Industry Praise for Groundbreaking Multi-country Payroll Visibility, Simplicity
The success of UKG One View is being celebrated this week at the UKG Aspire customer conference. The first-of-its kind technology-led experience extends the strength of the UKG Pro suite to help multinational organizations manage their entire workforce — from complex scheduling to payday — with the same consistent experience, regardless of where in the world their employees work. “Every member of our team is vital to our business success, and we’re excited to provide everyone with a singular pay experience that unlocks full visibility into payroll data, regardless of which in-country providers we leverage,” said Eric Sweet, senior manager of HRIS and compensation at Rollins, a premier global consumer and commercial service company operating through its family of brands in countries around the globe. “UKG One View […]
Continue readingMarket Alert: Paylocity Expands Its Suite of Services and Solutions
What Happened Last week, Paylocity, a leading cloud human capital management (HCM) and payroll software company, expanded its suite of services and solutions with the introduction of two new products. Employee Voice and Recognition & Rewards may both be broadly categorized as employee engagement offerings, but each meets a distinct and critical need for organizations aiming to attract and retain top talent and maintain a competitive edge with the modern workforce. Background Employee Voice from Paylocity is designed to gather employee feedback and procure pertinent insights from it without extra work on the part of an organization’s HR team. Building on the vendor’s existing Surveys tool, Employee Voice automates the survey process to collect employee responses and collate them into functional, digestible dashboards and heatmaps. […]
Continue readingGuest Podcast: #PayrollChronicles, Mercans’ Podcast Series
Welcome to the inaugural episode of #PayrollChronicles, Mercans’ #PodcastSeries! In this episode, they delve into the transformative landscape of payroll, specifically focusing on the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence (#AI). It features an enlightening conversation between Steve Goldberg, a distinguished industry expert, in conversation with Mercans’ CEO for Payroll & SaaS, Vishwanathan Arunachalam (Vish) on 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲.
Continue reading#WDAYChats: Innovation in Global Payroll | November 13th, 2023 @ 12:30pm EST
Join us for our next #WDAYChats as we discuss Innovation in Global #Payroll with Anita Lettink, Pete A. Tiliakos, and Anke Mogannam on November 13th at 9:30am PT. Learn more and Register here: #WDAYChats: Innovation in Global Payroll
Continue readingGuest LinkedIn Live: Blueprint for keeping your organization agile
Steve Goldberg, HCM research & advisory, and Jennifer Borun, senior director, analyst relations and strategic engagement of Cornerstone, sat down on LinkedIn Live to discuss how to guide your organization through solving future problems and succeeding in a volatile market. Take one look at the news (or your LinkedIn feed), and you’ll see a lot of talk about market changes and economic shifts. There’s fear and uncertainty about what’s to come. Steve explained that unpredictability and volatility are relative concepts, but the landscape of a pandemic has given these terms a tangible depth and taken uncertainty to a new level. That level, Steve said, is “a period of max fluidity.” Fancy term! But what is “max fluidity”? Think of the supply chain disruptions currently […]
Continue readingMonthly Research Recap | October 2023
Upcoming Events: Webinar: Performance Management Today | November 20, 2023 @ 2pm EST Those attending this Performance Management Today webinar will hear about advances in this HR process area like check-ins, continuous performance management and having the process encompass employee career goals. That said, the webinar will focus even more on newer and less obvious considerations for designing a very modern PM process, some of which our presenter had a role in originating and broadly syndicating. Webinar: HR Planning for FY24: Business as Unusual | Thursday, November 16, 2023, 10:00am – 11:00am PST Join this Q&A session to hear from organizational agility expert and industry analyst, advisor and influencer Steve Goldberg on how to enact, enable and embrace change at your company – regardless of […]
Continue readingCompliance at the Core: Behind the Scenes at deel
This year, I’m spending more time working with vendors across the HCM technology and services marketplace to understand the key trends and learn more about the modern solutions and innovations focused on advancing how compliance is managed across the HR spectrum. The struggle is real. In HR buyer research, compliance bubbles up consistently as a top challenge for practitioners and a leading driver for HR and payroll-managed services adoption as regulations evolve, introducing new complexities at an accelerated pace. Over half of employers cite mounting concern for solving skills gaps locally and struggling to attract top talent as key obstacles to business transformation and remaining competitive. These obstacles lead to organizations of all sizes commonly engaging talent beyond their home borders and seeing their footprints […]
Continue reading#HRandPayroll20: Why the Workplace is Broken with Special Guest Jason Lee
On this very special episode, Pete and Julie are LIVE from the HR Technology Conference and Exposition at Mandalay Bay Las Vegas. They welcome visionary fintech entrepreneur, on-demand pay pioneer, and founder of DailyPay and now SALT Labs, Jason Lee, to the show to discuss why the workplace is broken and how fintech may be the answer to help fix it. The group digs into the rising angst and battle between employees and employers, the challenges both face in the “creator economy” and every evolving workplace, and how employers can rebalance the relationship with employees and re-establish trust to put the workforce back on track. Jason also teases his new venture, SALT Labs – a new fintech solution aimed at pushing equity to essential front-line […]
Continue readingSafeguard Global’s ChatSG Aims to Become the Employment Interface to The World
This past week global workforce solutions provider Safeguard Global announced the launch of ChatSG. A generative AI solution powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the latest Safeguard Global innovation aimed at easing the challenges of compliant global HR and employment by empowering leaders with workforce insights to enable data-driven decision-making. Through ChatSG, which is currently open and accessible to all, registered users are provided a natural language processing (NLP) enabled conversational interface for sourcing answers to compliance and employment-related queries across more than 70 countries (with more on the roadmap) and available through prompts in 40 languages. In my research of global payroll, employer of record (EoR), and HCM solutions, compliance generally places at the top of buyer feedback as a key driver of solution selection […]
Continue readingIndependence Day: A Time to Reflect & Champion Unconditional Freedom for All
This July 4th, Americans across the United States and around the world will pause to enjoy a long weekend with family and friends to celebrate America’s 247th birthday and independence from Great Britain in 1776. While the beloved patriotic summer holiday will no doubt be filled with hot dogs, fireworks, and backyard gatherings to commemorate America’s birthday, it’s an excellent time for us all to pause and reflect on the unparalleled freedom we enjoy and often take for granted. The United States of America has long been a symbol and beacon of freedom, hope, and opportunity for immigrants seeking a better life. A country founded on the core belief that all humans are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights — among those being […]
Continue readingWorkday Guest Blog Article: Inflection Point – Enabling Strategy and Organizational Agility With Payroll
The current state of payroll and the future of the critical process and profession is reaching its much-needed inflection point. Prioritizing the critical process and profession as a central element in the broader human capital management (HCM) strategy is vital to enabling organizational agility and elevating the profession from its simple processor stigma to a strategic advisor and center of expertise. So Close…Yet Still So Far Payroll has come a long way from its stone tablet and paper journal roots. Tabulating machines must have seemed like the future in the late 1950s to the few organizations with access to them. Eventually, desktop computers and the internet paved the way for payroll software to change how payroll was “managed.” But payroll largely limped along with inadequate […]
Continue readingUKG to Acquire immedis: What it Means & Why it Matters
The Big News This past week workforce management and human capital management technology provider UKG announced its intent to acquire immedis, a current UKG Marketplace integration partner and global payroll technology and services provider. While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, it is presumed to be valued above the $575m valuation immedis reported with its most recent funding round; the deal is expected to close within 60 days. The acquisition news makes perfect sense when you consider UKG’s vision and mantra of “Be the One”: one suite of products + one people-first purpose, and one approach to simplifying how it does business. Given the complexity and criticality of managing an agile global workforce, that vision was incomplete without a globally capable payroll solution […]
Continue readingAnalyst Insight: isolved – Punching Above its Weight and Getting Stronger
Event Recap isolved recently held its annual isolved Connect client event in sunny Palm Desert, California. A city with an always sunny reputation, a very fitting backdrop for the HR technology event for a brand recognized by its bright pink branding and outlook on the future of human capital management. Over 800 client and partner attendees converged on the desert paradise to network, learn, and engage around the future of work and HR, hoping to move their organizations from good to great with the help of their flagship HCM investment in the isolved People Cloud. Business Update isolved once again had a stellar growth story to share with analysts; now hovering around $500M in total revenues in FY’23 with a 26% CAGR performance since 2012 […]
Continue readingEvent Recap: UKG Analyst Day
UKG recently held the spring edition of its annual analyst day in Boston, bringing together senior executives from across the organization and products for a deep dive business and innovation update with the analyst community. The following is a recap of the highlights from the annual event and my thoughts on the outlook for UKG and its HCM technology suites. UKG Business Update 2023 is off to a solid start as UKG achieved a company milestone in surpassing $1b in quarterly revenues for the second consecutive quarter in its history as a combined company and steaming toward its goal of $5b in gross revenue by FY’2025. Adoption across UKG’s portfolio of HCM and WFM solutions remains strong, with 20% y/y growth in Q2 FY’23, driven […]
Continue reading#HRandPayroll20: Executive Conversations Live from PayCon 2023 – Part 2
This special episode is part two of a three-part series featuring executive conversations recorded LIVE from the 42nd annual Payroll Congress in Denver, CO, in May of 2023! Join host Pete A. Tiliakos as he sits down with practitioners, leaders, and executives from across the payroll and payments marketplace to discuss a range of workplace trends, challenges, and the emerging tech and solutions shaping the future of pay! Thank you to Danny Schulz, Senior Manager, Payroll, Systems, and Taxes at Kohler for a great conversation, and to The Source by DailyPay for their generosity in hosting these sessions and sharing them with the HR & Payroll 2.0 audience! Our HR & Payroll 2.0 Series is also available as a podcast on the following platforms: Apple […]
Continue readingpayfederate Guest Blog: A New Pay Transparency Playbook
Introduction It is common these days for the words ‘trust’ and ‘authenticity’ to be featured in an employer value proposition. After all, they are emblematic of the values underpinning a corporate culture. The reasons for their prevalence are varied, but one could assert this reflects an effort to mitigate workforce sentiments such as a lack of control or lack of feeling valued. These feelings, when present, might well be a function of the Covid era having destabilized or at least disrupted the lives of both employees and businesses. Aside from that challenging set of dynamics, one must also keep in mind that many organizations were already involved in “intentional disruption” when the COVID crisis hit, better known as some form of business transformation. Whether reacting […]
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