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Marc Ladenstein talks about the HR strategy at Medtronic and the importance of delivering a consumer-grade experience to employees and customers. With a strategy based on people, process, and technology, Marc explains why people come first and the focus on employee well-being has become increasingly important, with the challenges that follow the pa…

John Pearce, CloudPay’s SVP of Global Payroll, is joined by Mel Pizzey, CEO of the Global Payroll Association to discuss the perception and barriers that payroll career progression faces, how to get started within the industry, and how the GPA is working to break some of those barriers down. Listen to the podcast to find out why nobody is talking a…

With high levels of financial stress caused by the recent pandemic, we're seeing the importance of financial wellbeing rise up the corporate agenda, and the relationships between employees and employers change. Felicia Cheek discusses the concerns of the different generations making up today's workforce and the effects of employee financial stress …

Emerging technologies like blockchain are enabling fundamental changes in the world of data custodianship, employee payroll and HR. In this episode Dimitri Papageorgiou and Linda Obertin discuss how data ownership is shifting from employers and vendors to employees. We explore the roles, obligations and challenges of financial institutions, benefit…

As organizations recover, payroll has been reborn as a transformational area of opportunity across all sectors. While payroll may have been overlooked in the past, it is now squarely at the heart of the employee experience, with firms realizing that payroll is more complex, vulnerable and needs modern tools to increase efficiency, continuity, and b…

As organizations recover, payroll has been reborn as a transformational area of opportunity across all sectors. While payroll may have been overlooked in the past, it is now squarely at the heart of the employee experience, with firms realizing that payroll is more complex, vulnerable and needs modern tools to increase efficiency, continuity, and b…

Who is the modern payroll professional? And how is the payroll function evolving? Payroll is becoming dynamic. It requires employee centricity, a love of data and technology, plus influencing skills. In this episode, Lubomira Kostova, Uber’s Lead, Strategy and Planning, Global Payroll, shares her story, tips for people in the payroll profession, an…

In recent years, the minimum wage debate has been a hot topic for people in payroll and HR. For instance, do wage increases hurt small businesses or boost consumer spending? There has been talk of how minimum wage differences globally could lead to different work trends. In this episode, John McFarland, SVP of Client Development at VensureHR, discu…

The Covid-19 pandemic has put payroll functions through a rigorous test, challenging their business continuity plans, strategies, software capabilities, and vendors. In this episode, Kelley Rousayne from The Hackett Group discusses how payroll organizations should address key weaknesses exposed by the pandemic and what steps companies can take to o…

The Covid-19 pandemic has put payroll functions through a rigorous test, challenging their business continuity plans, strategies, software capabilities, and vendors. In this episode, Kelley Rousayne from The Hacket Group discusses how payroll organizations should address key weaknesses exposed by the pandemic and what steps companies can take to op…

We bring together two experts to discuss how HR and Payroll departments and systems can prepare organizations for a future where diversity and inclusion are foundational components of global companies. Mollie Lombardi and Judith Lamb discuss diversity’s changing meaning, the operational hurdles ahead, and the value of HR and payroll data on diversi…

How does the global pandemic impact your organization, and what is its impact on your payroll operations? What should organizations do if they are in the midst of a significant change to payroll operations? How do companies stay current on new legislative changes introduced across the globe? We brought together a panel of global payroll experts to …

What role should vendors play in enabling digital transformation, and how do companies ensure their methodology for vendor evaluation avoids common pitfalls? In this episode, Brian Sommer, founder/president of TechVentive, focuses his attention on the role that vendors have to play enabling or hindering digital transformation projects. He shares ad…

Digital transformation projects remain among the most challenging undertakings organizations face. Many of these projects fail to launch, and many more fail to deliver on their promises. But when done successfully, they can generate a significantly different reality for a company’s competitive position and strategy. In this episode, Brian Sommer, f…

How do companies adopt more useful measurements for their payroll process? As our panel discussion continues, participants consider five new performance indicators for payroll: first-time approval rate, data input issues, calendar length, supplemental impact, and issues per 1K payslips. The discussion also covers the benefits of each KPI and ways c…

How should organizations evaluate the quality of their payroll process? In a two-part panel discussion, we examine how organizations and vendors measure the payroll process today and how they can improve the way they measure payroll going forward. In part one, our panel discusses three payroll KPIs used by organizations today: timeliness, accuracy,…

The promise of single-source, cloud-based technology to transform the way organizations function has been heralded, doubted and debated for years, despite evidence of their benefits for companies of all sizes, across sectors and around the world. In this episode of Payday, CloudPay is joined by Laurent Botella of Workday to discuss the continuing c…

The evolution of enterprise tech toward self-service data management reveals a guiding focus on greater accuracy, security and flexibility in international business, but what does it mean for the people who work with that information on a daily basis? In this episode of Payday, we continue our conversation with Stacey Harris of Sierra Cedar and tak…

The possibilities and promise of integrated, automated technology is bringing positive change to HR organizations around the world — with knock-on effects on related functions like global payroll that may or may not always be welcome. In this episode of Payday, CloudPay is joined by Stacey Harris of Sierra Cedar to examine the findings of their lat…

Time, technology and the desire of people to exercise increased control over their careers have transformed the role of human resources in recent years, which in turn has opened the door for greater possibilities and expectations in global payroll. In this episode of Payday, CloudPay is joined by Mollie Lombardi of Aptitude Research Partners to dis…

In this episode of Payday we’re joined by Pete Tiliakos, a senior analyst at NelsonHall who has led significant research into the technology, trends and solutions available in HR and global payroll. Pete recently identified three key industry developments that every payroll and HR professional should be aware of — so we asked him to come by and exp…

There’s a pervasive myth in global payroll that companies can’t have one system across all locations. Groupon begs to differ, having implemented a single HR and Payroll solution across its global footprint. In this episode, Groupon’s Director of Global Payroll, Ricardo Rehkopf, explains how his organization consolidated its payroll to one solution …

It seems everyone is focused on integration at the moment — how it speeds up data transfer, automates processing, and saves organizations both time and money. But what does it do for global payroll? More importantly, what does it do for you? In this episode of Payday, we discuss the benefits and opportunities of integrating essential enterprise fun…