Last week marked ADP’s 24th Annual Meeting of the Minds conference, attended by nearly 1,400 HR and Payroll practitioners. It was a pleasure to provide the first of twelve topics dedicated to global materials pre-approved for Recertification Credit Hours (RCH) in International Management. Global track sessions focused on the ever-expanding trend toward globalization in the marketplace and ours provided a quick view of the hottest topics surfacing among global clients:

• Global Payroll
• SaaS / Cloud Technology
• Process Harmonization
• Data Security and Privacy
• Mobility and Workforce 2020

During the session, the more than 50 participants considered ways in which these trends might affect their company, their in-flight projects, and their own experiences and value to the global client organization they work in today.…

Part one of this series focused on recent developments in payroll administration in North America. Now we turn our attention to the global payroll market.

In 2010 and 2011, global payroll outsourcing opportunities continued to draw the attention of large, mid-size, and small clients alike. Last year, TPI released a filtering tool that evaluates a client’s global payroll needs with an articulated country-by-country strategy for rationalized outsourcing of payroll administration.…

The North America payroll administration outsourcing market is constantly evolving. Different types of clients require different solutions, and providers continue to refine their offerings to meet the diverse needs.

In recent years North America payroll providers have been stretching their outsourced payroll services so that what was once a specialized “service bureau,” fulfilling functions such as tax filing and check printing, is now broadened in scope to include traditional payroll processing as a basic package.…