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Your Workforce Decisions Are Only as Good as Your Payroll Data

The six statements in this episode point in one direction. HR data is becoming the input for business decisions, and the quality of that input is decided in payroll. Three things follow. First, treat payroll accuracy as a trust question rather than a compliance question. Employees check it every month and conclude the rest of the company from what they find. Second, stop shopping for global payroll. Buy country-level depth with one accountable owner across markets. The rules are national, and they will stay national. Third, judge any system on whether it puts every market on one screen. If the answer to "what are we spending on people" takes three weeks to assemble, you do not have a reporting problem. You have a structural one.