PODCAST: HR Happy Hour 405 - Payroll Innovation and End of Year Preparation #HRHappyHour

HR Happy Hour 405 - Payroll Innovation and End of Year Preparation

Hosts: Trish McFarlane, Steve Boese

Guest: Tom Hammond, Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Product Management, Paychex

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This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish were joined by Tom Hammond of Paychex, to talk about innovation in Payroll technology and how HR and Payroll can prepare for end of year 2019 and new regulations coming in 2020. Some of the key points Tom discussed were how Paychex works with hundreds of thousands of small and medium sized businesses to understand their challenges, and delivers modern and innovative solutions to help them meet these challenges in Payroll, HR, Benefits and more. Self-service, advanced workflows, using analytics to make better people decisions, and delivering user friendly user experiences are just some of what HR and Payroll leaders and employees demand from modern HR tech, and we talked about how these can be delivered to organizations of all sizes.

Plus, Tom dove into some of the most important issues facing HR and Payroll leaders as we end 2019 and move into 2020, like the new form W4. You can learn more about these challenges at paychex.com/hrhappyhour.

Additionally, Steve and Trish talked about the Pantone Color of the Year for 2020 - "Classic Blue", aka "Paychex Blue".

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This was a fun show, thanks so much to Tom for coming on the show.

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PODCAST: HR Happy Hour 399 - Driving Improvements with Unified ERP and HCM in the Cloud

HR Happy Hour 399 - Driving Improvements with Unified ERP and HCM in the Cloud

Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane

Guest: Jason Ringgenberg, CIO at YRC Worldwide Inc.

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Sponsored by Oracle. Create tomorrow, today with Oracle HCM Cloud - Work made human. Oracle provides organizations a complete HCM cloud solution that drives digital transformation and improves business agility while meeting both current and future business requirements. Organizational excellence includes creating a unified cloud solution that connects Finance and HR to improve business performance.

On this episode of the HR Happy Hour, we sat down to talk to Jason Ringgenberg, CIO at YRC Worldwide Inc.  YRC Worldwide Inc. is an American holding company of freight shipping brands YRC Freight, New Penn, Holland and Reddaway. YRC Worldwide has a comprehensive network in North America, and offers shipping of industrial, commercial and retail goods. As the CIO, Jason was instrumental in making the decision to move the organization from on-premise solutions, and many of them, to Oracle.  With Oracle, he and the team saw the benefits of having a relationship with one vendor to take care of all their ERP and HCM needs.  We talked about data security and privacy, how processes changed, and how to address talent shortages with technology.

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This was a fun and informative show, thanks Jason for joining us!

PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 398 – Best Practices in Streamlining Processes with HCM Technology

HR Happy Hour 398 – Best Practices in Streamlining Processes with HCM Technology

Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane

Guest: Dr. Wade Larson, Director of HR for Wagstaff

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Sponsored by Oracle. Create tomorrow, today with Oracle HCM Cloud- Work made human. Oracle provides organizations a complete HCM cloud solution that drives digital transformation and improves business agility while meeting both current and future business requirements. Organizational excellence includes creating a unified cloud solution that connects Finance and HR to improve business performance.

On this episode of the HR Happy Hour, Dr. Wade Larson joined us to talk about ways Wagstaff is streamlining their organizational processes with HCM technology.  As an Oracle customer, this 74-year old private manufacturer is seeing huge benefits to their employee efficiency and connection.  We talked about benefits of having one system vs. many, how things like goal setting and compensation planning benefit from a modern system in the Cloud, and best practices of moving your HR function to the Cloud.  Dr. Larson is not only the Director of HR for Wagstaff, he is also an esteemed author of “Doing HR Better” which is available on Amazon.

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This was a fun and informative show, thanks Wade for joining us.

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PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 397 – Tips for HCM Tech Selection from Emerson Electric

HR Happy Hour 397 – Tips for HCM Tech Selection & Implementation from Emerson Electric

Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane

Guest: Jim Rhodes, VP of HRIS, Emerson Electric

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Sponsored by Oracle. Create tomorrow, today with Oracle HCM Cloud- Work made human. Oracle provides organizations a complete HCM cloud solution that drives digital transformation and improves business agility while meeting both current and future business requirements. Organizational excellence includes creating a unified cloud solution that connects Finance and HR to improve business performance.

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Trish and Steve were joined by Jim Rhodes, VP of HRIS at Emerson Electric.  We kicked off the show with Trish and Jim talking about their St. Louis connection, and quickly dove into how organizations can go through the selection of transformational HCM technology.  Covering everything from how to prepare your team to how to communicate during the entire process, we walked through some major steps of technology selection and implementation.  We also talked about how a global, decentralized organization embarks on a multi- phase implementation process.

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This was a fun and informative show, thanks Jim for joining us.

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PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 394 - HR Technology and Creating Great Employee Experiences

HR Happy Hour 394 - HR Technology and Creating Great Employee Experiences

Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane

Guest: Jennifer Kraszewski, Paycom

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This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Jennifer Kraszewski, Vice President, Human Resources at Paycom, to talk about employee experience and the role of HR technology in driving transformation and creating great experiences for employees and allowing them to do their best work.

Additionally, Jennifer shared some details about Paycom’s award-winning “Direct Data Exchange” technology, an innovative solution that lets HR and Business leaders drive increased adoption of HR technologies in their organizations, and allows better, more accurate ROI measurement of HR tech and was one of the HR Tech Conference's "Awesome New Technologies for HR" at the 2019 Conference.

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This was a fun show, thanks  so much to Jennifer for joining us.

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