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47% of organizations have HR software that is over seven years old. Archaic software is often pieced together accompanied with an old-school user experience that results in inaccurate data and low levels of user adoption.

HR may have become numb to the inefficiencies and extra administrative work required with managing older systems, as this is most likely the way things have always been at an organization. Switching to a new HCM solution means migrating years of data, setting up and defining processes, training managers, and helping employees navigate a new system- enough to make HR howl.

Running a business consists of thousands of little steps every day. There are many tiny tasks that make up the overall organization to keep things moving forward. Payroll is an important one.

Like many areas of business operations, technology is changing how businesses process payroll. This change not only stems from the pertinent technology developments regarding how payroll is processed, but also how said technology is changing the world as a whole. More businesses are abandoning the traditional 9-5 salaried worker model and using remote capabilities. 

With that in mind, here are four payroll trends that prove that the future is happening now:

A Spiceworks survey shows that 62% of organizations currently use biometric authentication technology in the workplace and that an additional 24% plan to implement biometric technology within the next two years.

Employees are quick to ditch memorizing long, lengthy passwords and HR is on board to implement biometric technology to help accomplish a wide of range of objectives in the workplace, specifically employee labor reporting validation and overcoming daily people challenges like buddy punching.

It’s incredible how much the role of HR employees has changed as of late. If you work in Human Resources, you’ve probably already started to notice the changes.

If you want to keep up with the changes and improvements, you’ll need to prepare. You’ll have to sharpen up your skills and spend some time learning new technologies.

Let’s take a look at five specific changes that will rock the HR world, and discuss how they’ll affect your career.

With the summer almost over, and fall quickly approaching, HR leaders are kicking into high gear planning for Benefit Open Enrollment, Budget Planning, Compliance Reporting, and Mid-Year Reviews. If you are like so many other HR leaders of mid-market organizations, you may have elected to upgrade or deploy a new Human Capital Management (HCM) software platform with a January go live.

Opinions and sentiments of the mass media and the general public about millennials are for some reason highly polarized.

Even when you try to google them, you’ll get a wide range of suggestions, starting from “millennials are lazy, narcissistic, broke, or even the worst” all the way to “millennials are hard working.”

You’re probably scratching your head worrying over the fact that you’ll have to hire those notorious job hoppers whose turnover costs the U.S. economy $30.5 billion annually.   

The truth is that Generation Y has been much-maligned based on a number of generalizations and stereotypes.

Shopping is a popular pastime. A lot of people like to shop. But when you’re shopping for a new HRMS, the process of deciding exactly which system is right for your organization can quickly get bogged down in the details: whether to opt for on-premises or in the cloud, deciding on self-service functionality, ensuring mobile access, to payroll or not to payroll, the list can seem endless and any help is welcome. When you combine this with the fact you’ll be spending, on average, $6,125 per user of your system according to the latest HRIS research, you want to be sure you’re making the right decision. With that in mind, here are three key tips for planning your HRMS selection.

PeopleGuru is excited to announce that we have officially become an alliance and integration partner with eQuest, the world’s largest job posting distribution company.

Over the course of three days at the Annual LeadingAge Meeting & Expo in Philadelphia, our Gurus met with other Gurus, exchanged ideas, learned more about the booming industry, and further confirmed our commitment to helping the Senior Care Industry improve people processes, mitigate compliance risk, and control labor costs. We also had the pleasure of handing out our “Relax, We Goat This” t-shirts, stuffed goats, (sorry, we left the real goats at home) and had the opportunity to visit with some of our awesome clients.

We may be far from a Terminator/Skynet future, but developments in artificial intelligence have prompted the latest round of concern about how technology will put us all out of work. Which is why it’s refreshing to see a range of articles in the press – including The Guardian, Business Insider, and CNBC – stating that robots may take our jobs but they’ll also create new ones.