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HR Analytics Takes Center Stage at the 2023 ADP Meeting of the Minds
Mar 28, 2023, by Jeanine Crane-ThompsonThe week of March 13, the 2023 ADP Meeting of the Minds (MOTM) Conference saw more than 3,000 participants descend upon downtown Atlanta. ADP leaders, guest speakers, and clients shared data and insights on industry trends, economic forecasts, and the overall health and direction of the human capital industry. At a high level, six economic trends are reshaping the global labor mar[...]
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HR Predictions 2023: Learning
Feb 01, 2023, by Nikki EdwardsIn 2022, timely digital learning became the accepted norm, along with personalized learning using delivery methods based on the latest advances in learning tech and services. Before the pandemic, learning was a target for wholesale budget cuts during a time of economic uncertainty. With ongoing talent and skills shortages, 2023 will likely see some organizations de-prioritize lear[...]
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HR Predictions 2023: Recruitment
Jan 24, 2023, by Nikki EdwardsThe last three years has been a period of rapid transformation for Talent Acquisition (TA), culminating in a new era of work. And in 2023, organizations face challenges such as a shrinking global workforce, skills shortages, and new workforce/workplace expectations. Alongside, broader business survival challenges (navigating an economic recession, availability of resources/supplies, [...]
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SD Worx Maintains Strong Pan-European HR Growth & Targets Further Expansion
Nov 18, 2022, by Elizabeth RennieLast month, NelsonHall participated in the SD Worx Analyst Day, which included an update on key milestones since Kobe Verdonck took the reins as CEO in September 2019. The last three years have seen SD Worx supercharge its European growth and intensify its focus through achieving: Geographic expansion from 10 to 23 countries in Europe, where it utilizes its own IP in 17 of thes[...]
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Hyper-Personalized Learning Key to Workforce Upskilling & Retention
Oct 18, 2022, by Nikki EdwardsThe 2022 Learning Technologies Autumn Forum (at the London ExCel, October 13) reflected the market changes and global events that have been driving the learning transformation agenda since early 2020. Remote and hybrid working demand and deepening talent and skills shortages have seen learning become a C-suite priority: organizations realize that if they cannot buy or borrow talent ([...]
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Technology & People Analytics Evolving to Support the HR Lifecycle
Sep 28, 2022, by Jeanine Crane-ThompsonEarlier this month, the 2022 HR Technology Conference saw more than 400 vendors and 5,000 participants descend upon the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Hotel & Conference Center. Attendees presented industry trends, learned from colleagues, viewed demos of the latest technologies, and met face-to-face in what felt like a pre-2020 setting. Several key observations from this year's conference [...]
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Atlas’ $200m Strategic Equity Investment Enables Continued Global Expansion
Sep 26, 2022, by Jeanine Crane-ThompsonOn September 15, Atlas secured a strategic equity investment of up to $200m in partnership with Sixth Street Growth. Atlas specializes in direct employer of record (EOR) solutions and enabling technology, contractor pay, consulting services, HR service delivery, and global mobility & visa offerings. The company is focused on supporting clients’ international expansion strategies i[...]
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Pontoon’s Evolutionary Services Procurement Approach for Contingent Hiring Success
Sep 14, 2022, by Nikki EdwardsPontoon's recently reimagined Services Procurement contingent hiring solution enables a simplified, client-centric journey, with best practice at its core and underpinned by industry-leading technology. In 2021, Pontoon conducted a thorough evaluation of its existing offering, other solutions in the market, and what current and future clients were looking for from Services Procurement.&[...]
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DE&I as a Core Business Strategy: ADP’s Internal Initiatives & Client Services
Aug 18, 2022, by DeeAnna WarringtonDiversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) has become an important focus for HR in recent years and is increasingly part of organizations’ core business strategy. This blog takes an in-depth look at ADP’s current DE&I strategies, both internally and as relates to its client service and offerings. ADP’s Corporate Social Responsibility ADP currently has ~6[...]
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IBM-EY HR Talent Alliance Creates Game-Changer Center of Excellence
May 27, 2022, by Elizabeth RennieFollowing a year in development, IBM’s Talent Transformation division and EY’s Organization & Workforce, Mobility, Payroll Operate and HR Transformation division have announced a strategic alliance. The alliance enables the two organizations to co-create talent solutions and offers a new Center of Excellence for Talent, which could be a game-changer in terms of the HR[...]
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Safeguard Global Acquires Global Upside to Expand EOR Services
Feb 07, 2022, by Jeanine Crane-ThompsonSafeguard 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 [...]
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Neeyamo Event: Payroll Beyond Borders
Jan 24, 2022, by Elizabeth RennieLast week marked Neeyamo's Payroll Beyond Borders' virtual global payroll industry event. The keynotes were delivered by payroll industry leaders Dan Maddux, Executive Director, American Payroll Association, and Ken Pullar, CEO, CIPP. The event had around 1,200 participants from around the world and was the first global coming together of global payroll industry experts [...]
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Recruitment & Learning Trends, 2022
Jan 20, 2022, by Nikki EdwardsHere I look at the major trends for the year ahead in two key areas of HR: recruitment and learning services. Recruitment Trends Talent Acquisition (TA) challenges were already complex in the pre-pandemic period, with an aging workforce population, shortage of digital talent, rapid evolution of technology, Brexit, legal changes, and more. The pandemic added another layer of com[...]
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The Changing Role of the Strategic Benefits Leader
Jan 14, 2022, by Elizabeth RennieSince the start of the pandemic, company benefits have played an increasingly important role in helping organizations protect the safety, wellness, and health of their employees. This is increasingly the case, not only for physical wellness, but organizations now have greater awareness of mental health and financial wellness impacts on their staff given recent challenges and mass res[...]
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How will Europe Address Post-Pandemic HR Challenges?
Oct 22, 2021, by Elizabeth RennieAs the pandemic normalizes across day-to-day life, NelsonHall expects HR service delivery to adapt to a whole new set of challenges, both through legislation and HR best practices. The convergence of three key themes are likely to see new HR solutions being developed: staff welfare and resilience, operational efficiency, and automation. Staff Welfare and Resilience Pre-COVI[...]
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isolved: Innovation, Platform Maturity & Client Development
Sep 24, 2021, by Elizabeth RennieThis past week I had the privilege of attending isolved’s Connect annual user conference at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida. The event marked a few firsts for me personally: my first time attending isolved Connect and the first time I have traveled for an in-person event in 18 months. It was great to get back to meeting and connecting with vendors and buyers face to face [...]
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CloudPay NOW: Global Earned Wage Access Without Borders
Jul 20, 2021, by Elizabeth RennieThis past week, CloudPay announced the launch of CloudPay NOW, its latest offering focused on modernizing the way workers are paid globally. The employer-integrated Earned Wage Access (EWA) solution is a key addition to CloudPay’s offering that pairs its unified database and technology-enabled operating model, with its deep global treasury capability to offer one of the most[...]
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HR Approaches to Building Resilience - Time to Expand the Concept of Employee Experience?
Jun 23, 2021, by Elizabeth RennieThe last two years have challenged employees and HR teams in ways we could never have imagined, and many now have a new outlook on what “work-life balance” means. 2020 and 2021 have seen heightened resignation levels, and companies are only now starting to reflect on the impact of burnout on their employees. While vaccines are being rolled out, and with the threat of loca[...]
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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[...]