If your company wants to sell specialist machine tools to the Nigerian oil industry, buy Kenya’s agricultural produce, or dig for gold and diamonds in South Africa, you’ll find a growing, affluent market ready to do business across this dynamic continent. Whether you are sending expatriates to run your business […]
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Optimizing Payroll Means Bringing Together Your Domestic & International Payroll Systems A buzzword just a few years ago, globalization is now an operational fact and a central component of any business strategy. With instant connections across borders and fewer barriers between geographic regions, we must reconsider our accepted working
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Multinational organizations looking to transition from multiple decentralized vendors to a true global payroll solution often use the tried-and-true request for proposal, or RFP, to evaluate and compare possible providers. However, many organizations hinder their process from the start by using (or reusing) ineffective or nonspecific RFPs. Rethinking the RFP
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Transitioning from a decentralized vendor landscape to a true global payroll solution can be a long process, especially for multinational organizations. A key component of that journey is the familiar request for proposal, or RFP, which companies use to solicit bids from potential service providers. A common misstep in the
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Multinational organizations looking to implement a true global payroll solution often engage in a tried-and-true approach to vendor selection: the request for proposal, or RFP. The trouble is that all too often, companies either recycle the very RFP they used to find the vendor they’re now looking to replace or
For multinational organizations, moving from a decentralized vendor landscape to a true global payroll solution involves multiple steps. Before a company can implement a new solution and onboard its Payroll team, it needs to build a business case, win internal buy-in, prospect potential vendors, and finalize an agreement with its
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Investing in an automated enterprise solution is a big decision, one that can impact aspects of your operations well beyond its immediate function. A global payroll solution, for example, can affect processes in HR, Finance, IT and even Sales. As you consider your options, it becomes clear that a key
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In conversation, payroll practitioners may describe their companies’ global payroll operations using many different terms – ranging from inefficient and error-prone all the way to streamlined and data-driven. Those descriptors are more than just adjectives. They’re clues into the features, form, flaws, and overall “maturity” of an organization’s global payroll
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Human resources (HR) and payroll each play key roles in the employer-employee relationship. For either department to run smoothly, there must be collaboration between the two. At a macro level, however, the relationship between HR and payroll can be fraught with challenges. The disconnect between the two functions is well-known,
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Understanding Double Taxation Agreements: Monitoring the traffic of business visitors from abroad is increasingly becoming a requirement for Payroll & HR departments. Regardless of whether visitors are coming on short- or long-term secondments or are frequently visiting another country for a few days at a time, stakeholders must give due
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