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Futureproofing Payroll Services, Part 3: Managed Payroll Services Market Outlook
Apr 14, 2021, by Elizabeth RennieThis is the final part of a three-part blog series covering my perspectives on the payroll market based on NelsonHall’s latest annual market analysis, Payroll Services: Globalization and Digitalization. Part One features the payroll buyer perspective, with Part Two looking at the managed payroll service providers currently pushing the pace of innovation. Here I focus on the out[...]
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Futureproofing Payroll Services, Part 2: Vendor Innovations
Apr 08, 2021, by Elizabeth RennieThis is Part Two of a three-part blog series covering my perspectives on the payroll market based on NelsonHall’s latest annual market analysis, Payroll Services: Globalization and Digitalization. Part One features the payroll buyer perspective, including the buyer view of the impact of innovation available today. In this part, I look at the managed payroll service providers currently pu[...]
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Futureproofing Payroll Services, Part 1: Buyer Perspectives
Apr 01, 2021, by Elizabeth RennieNelsonHall has published its annual payroll services market analysis, Payroll Services: Globalization and Digitalization. The report includes an analysis of two dozen payroll vendors, their offerings, and their buyers' perspectives. The project provided 'behind the curtain' access to many of the major payroll solutions enabling the market today and shaping its path forward. This[...]
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HR Trends & Outlook 2021, Part 2: Talent Management
Jan 27, 2021, by Nikki EdwardsThis is the second part of a 2-part blog presenting an analysis of key trends from NelsonHall's HR Technology & Services team. Here, Nikki Edwards looks at talent management services, including recruitment and learning services. Recruitment Services RPO and CWS/MSP vendors shone in 2020, as they supported their clients through their COVID-19 challenges, adding another d[...]
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HR Trends & Outlook 2021, Part 1: Core HR
Jan 12, 2021, by Elizabeth RenniePart 1 by Pete Tiliakos & Liz Rennie This is Part 1 of a 2-part blog presenting an analysis of key trends from NelsonHall's HR Technology & Services team. Part 1 looks at the key outsourcing trends around core HR functions, including cloud HR transformation, payroll, and benefits administration services. Cloud HR Transformation Services The drive to digital has k[...]
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Capgemini & ServiceNow Taking Digital HR Experiences to a New Level
Jan 04, 2021, by Elizabeth RennieAs expectations of what is possible in the digital world have grown exponentially, Capgemini is aiming to close the widening gap between consumer experience and employee experience. It is looking to digitalize workplace interactions while keeping the warmth, emotion, and uniqueness underpinning company culture. It has built a Digital Employee Operations (DEO) practice over t[...]
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SD Worx’s HR Vision Post-COVID
Oct 13, 2020, by Elizabeth RennieLike many HR service providers, SD Worx has been supporting its clients over the last six months by continually making updates to the changing legislation and dealing with client queries and operational challenges. SD Worx also launched a study to better understand changing market needs, the findings of which have just been published. The SD Worx study was one of the most extensive European HR[...]
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OSVAtmosphere: Removing the Mystery from HR & Payroll Service Delivery
Oct 07, 2020, by Elizabeth RennieThe recent impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic exposed many HR and payroll service delivery models as being unequipped and unprepared to pivot to remote work, access the data needed to obtain government support, and move money to employees in a timely and compliant fashion. The pandemic also accelerated an already intensifying push toward digital HR and payroll adoption, particularly as[...]
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2021: The Year of the Human Cloud
Oct 07, 2020, by Nikki EdwardsQuarterly financial reports for 2020 (April onwards) from recruitment organizations show that in a COVID-19 world, temporary hiring is more resilient than permanent hiring, faring on average about 10-30% better (albeit both types of hiring are seeing negative growth overall). Meanwhile, gig work has increased on average 10-15%, over the same period. These figures are not surprising a[...]
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Global Employer of Record Services: Outsourcing’s Best Kept Secret
Sep 21, 2020, by Elizabeth RennieThis past month, NelsonHall released the first market analysis dedicated to the Global Employer of Record (EoR) Services space, an emerging yet largely unknown HR outsourcing service model that enables growing multinational firms to compliantly employ foreign workers in support of global expansion initiatives. While co-employment service models have historically been U.S. centric,[...]
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Digital Talent Acquisition Helps Survival in an Uncertain World of Work
Jul 23, 2020, by Nikki EdwardsEveryone speculates as to what the long-term world of work could look like as we head into the second half of 2020 and beyond. But the reality is that we don’t really know how things will pan out. While organizations might be preparing for an uptick in hiring activity behind the scenes, the biggest challenges are the ongoing uncertainty around the future of work, and even survi[...]
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Ceridian Fuels International Growth Plans with Acquisition of Excelity Global
Jul 06, 2020, by Elizabeth RennieSince its IPO in early 2018, Ceridian has remained focused on reaching its goal of achieving $1bn in revenues. A key pillar of its growth strategy toward achieving that goal is the continued adoption of its Dayforce HCM platform by large multi-national buyers across key verticals, and expanding its adoption globally by enabling and offering integrated core HR, workforce management, p[...]
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Leading in a Pandemic Recovery World: How ADP is Supporting its Clients
Jun 25, 2020, by Elizabeth RennieEarlier in the month on the NelsonHall HR Quarterly Buyer Market Round-Up session, many buyers agreed that compliance is going to be a bigger issue in 2020 and beyond than it was before. Before it was just table stakes, now it is about survival, and with the new WFH (Work from Home) structures, the risks are higher. I had this in mind when I joined ADP’s Analyst Day la[...]
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Allegis Global Solutions: Leveraging Technology for Recruitment in a COVID-19 World
May 04, 2020, by Nikki EdwardsMy initial research into Impact of COVID-19 on Recruitment Services: Vendor Perspective (March 2020) highlighted several stand-out dilemmas that client organizations face. Notably, some organizations need to continue hiring and the only way to do so is by embracing technology (sometimes reluctantly), enabling them to carry out recruitment steps remotely. Also, some sectors were rampi[...]
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Payroll Services a Gateway to Broader HCM Tech & Service Adoption by U.S. Small Businesses
Apr 21, 2020, by Elizabeth RennieNelsonHall recently published a new U.S. SMB Payroll Services marketing analysis specifically focused on how HR service and technology providers are meeting the increasing demand for technology-based payroll and HR solutions from emerging small-mid sized businesses (<250 employees). The SMB picture Payroll services adoption remains steady amongst buyers of all sizes and stil[...]
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Benefitfocus Sets Out its Benefits Vision
Mar 26, 2020, by Elizabeth RennieThe recent OnePlace2020 digital conference was an opportunity for Benefitfocus to launch its 2020 strategy and to increase awareness of the benefits marketplace. Its vision is to improve lives with benefits, timely in light of the current global pandemic. Ray August, President and CEO, shed light on the fact that health care costs per employee have grown faster than wa[...]
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Ultimate Software: Growth Accelerated by Merger With Kronos
Mar 17, 2020, by Elizabeth RennieUltimate Software recently held its annual Ultimate Connections client event in Las Vegas, drawing over 4.5k client and partner attendees from across the UltiPro HCM ecosystem. Attendees’ interest had been piqued by the announcement a few days before that Hellman & Friedman-owned Ultimate Software and Kronos plan to merge, forming one of the largest global cloud technology [...]
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Change Your Workplace Culture or Struggle for Existence in the 2020s
Feb 26, 2020, by Nikki EdwardsAs a “Gen-Xer” I look back over my career and can identify four out of ten organizations that had an incredibly positive influence on my life. What made that 40% stand out was that, despite economic market forces, technological change, evolving customer/consumer habits, and skills shortages (as new technical jobs evolved), they successfully adapted to change. They also ev[...]
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Renewed Talent & Technology Focus Changing the Shape of the HR Ecosystem
Feb 12, 2020, by Elizabeth RennieHaving stepped back into an HR analyst role at NelsonHall, it’s clear to me that we can’t emphasise enough the increasing importance of talent and the need to leverage more technology in the HR function to be competitive. These two themes are unlikely to surprise. Over the last six months, I’ve heard how big companies such as large IT firms are experimenting with sh[...]
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Kronos Doubles Down on HCM Platform Development
Nov 27, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieEarlier this month, Kronos held its annual client event, KronosWorks, in Las Vegas, drawing >3k attendees from around the globe. Much of the attention at KronosWorks centered on the launch of InTouch DX, an intelligent time clock offering that incorporates advanced digital capabilities including an LCD with touch-enabled access, facial recognition, and integration with Kr[...]
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Engaging with Benefits: Spotlight on Benefitfocus
Nov 19, 2019, by Gary BragarLast week I attended the Benefitfocus Seller Place 2020 conference. Benefitfocus has repositioned itself from a software company to a benefits platform provider with solutions focused on engaging and improving the user experience while helping employers and employees make more informed decisions and reduce cost. Benefitfocus has 25m consumers, serving 150k employers with 15.5m emp[...]
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Cielo: Reimagining & Redefining RPO
Oct 29, 2019, by Nikki EdwardsThe pace of change in RPO and contingent worker outsourcing has been unprecedented in recent years due to technological advancements and the range of services expected by buyside organizations. Cielo recently organized a customer and analyst day to explore what talent acquisition (TA) might look like in the next five years. Speaking with several of Cielo’s clients, they comm[...]
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Machine Learning at the Heart of Workday’s Next Wave of Innovation
Oct 24, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieThis past week Workday held its 13th Workday Rising client event in Orlando, Florida. The platform’s annual event continues to grow substantially, with more than 13k in attendance this year, up from ~10k attendees in Las Vegas at the 2018 event. The growth in attendance points squarely to the continued steady adoption of the Workday platform, which is now supporting >2.8k[...]
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ADP’s Next-Generation Platforms Have Arrived
Sep 19, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieThis past week ADP held its annual analyst day event at its innovation lab in Chelsea, NY, where its executive leadership provided updates on the progress of its latest portfolio of next-generation HR and payroll solutions. The event was noticeably more crowded than in previous years, not only from a strong analyst community turnout but also from the growing ADP product leadership te[...]
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OneSource Virtual’s RPaaS: Progress & Future Plans
Sep 16, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieLast October at Workday Rising in Las Vegas, OneSource Virtual (OSV) introduced RPaaS, a Robotic Process as a Service offering, and the first HR-focused robotic process automation as a service solution targeted toward the mid-market buyer. RPaaS is a 'turnkey RPA solution’ that eliminates the need for adopters to make substantial investments in developing advanced automa[...]