Feb 07, 2022, by Jeanine Crane-Thompson
Safeguard Global acquired Global Upside Corporation, a global expansion, technology, and services company based in San Jose, CA on January 25, 2022.
Global Upside specializes in EOR services, new entity incorporation, human resources, accounting, payroll, and tax & compliance solutions. The country footprint across both organizations is well aligned. This acquisition will add [...]
May 08, 2019, by Elizabeth Rennie
This past week I had the opportunity to attend a private event hosted by Safeguard Global at Crewe Hall in the U.K., where the company celebrated its continued success in the global payroll space and made a major announcement that aims to fuel the company’s continued growth and support its vision for enabling simplified, compliant global expansion for multinational businesses. [...]
May 22, 2018, by Elizabeth Rennie
As businesses today are increasingly operating at a global level, they face inherent complexity and compliance hurdles. Indeed, a recurring finding in NelsonHall’s annual payroll market analysis is that compliance is a key driver for organizations outsourcing payroll. And new regulatory directives such as GDPR are placing yet more compliance pressure on the HR and payroll leade[...]
Mar 17, 2017, by Gary Bragar
Robotic process automation and artificial intelligence (RPA & AI) in HR are at an early stage, though the clear signs are that vendors are beginning to make investments that are paying off for their clients. Here I take a look at recent RPA & AI initiatives in three areas of HR: payroll services, recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), and learning services.
Payroll
RPA [...]
Jul 30, 2014, by Gary Bragar
The NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation and Assessment Tool (NEAT) for Payroll Outsourcing is now available to NelsonHall clients, and is also available for a period free-of-charge to buy-side organizations through NelsonHall and through its partners SIG and SSON.
The NEAT tool for Payroll Outsourcing is part of NelsonHall’s “speed-to-source” initia[...]
Jul 10, 2014, by NelsonHall Analyst
The HRO market is always buzzing with activity. With the first half of the year over, it’s a good time to examine the key trends by service area.
Benefits Administration:
Benefits administration was a hotbed of activity in H1! Contracts were awarded across various service lines in the U.S. as well as in the U.K. There was a solid stream of pensions and retirement administration c[...]
Jul 02, 2014, by Gary Bragar
NelsonHall’s annual HRO Market Forecast, 2014-2018, provides a forecast for the global HR BPO market by service line and geography. It includes:
The HR BPO market size for 2013 and the forecast through 2014 to 2018
The HR BPO market size and forecast for North America, specifically covering the U.S. and Canada; EMEA including U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Nordics &[...]
Jun 18, 2014, by Gary Bragar
Per NelsonHall’s HR Outsourcing Confidence Index (HROCI), around one third of HRO contracts signed in Q4 2013 were for services in multiple countries. There were multi-country deal signings across all HRO service lines, the highest number being in RPO and payroll.
RPO
In 2013 nearly one third of all deal signings were multi-country, up from a quarter in 2010. M[...]
Oct 17, 2013, by Gary Bragar
NelsonHall, the leading global BPO and IT outsourcing analyst firm, has today launched a new tool to assist Strategic Sourcing Managers in assessing vendor capability in Payroll BPO.
The Payroll business process outsourcing BPO tool is available to NelsonHall clients at http://research.nelson-hall.com/ and is also available for a limited period free-of-charge to strategic sourci[...]