Ray Porter, one of the most experienced practitioners in the multi-country payroll sector, has joined Webster Buchanan Research to head the company's Global Consulting Business

Cost concerns underpin most moves to HR and Payroll shared services – but as David Longworth points out, you need more than a spreadsheet to convince business managers to back your project

Payroll is under growing pressure to do more for less – but do you have the information you need to measure how well you’re operating? Webster Buchanan's Payroll Performance Scorecard is a new set of tools designed to help HR, payroll, finance and other senior executives measure payroll efficiency and effectiveness, taking account of all the factors that impact performance.

You might not expect to find it leading the way in new technology adoption, but payroll could make good use of social networking, blogs and the other paraphernalia of the ‘Web 2.0’ world. In an article originally written for the Institute of Payroll Professionals, Keith Rodgers explains how

Standardizing HR and payroll in multiple countries presents huge challenges, not least in project management. So how did pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca handle an HR technology roll-out across 23 countries and three continents?

Payroll is a business critical function that relies on a solid combination of systems, processes and people. But is your organisation paying enough attention to the people factor?

Timeliness and accuracy are key metrics for payroll – but they’re not the only ones. In an article originally researched for the Institute of Payroll Professionals, Keith Rodgers argues that performance should be measured on a broad range of operational and strategic factors

The HR function has long come under pressure to ‘get strategic’ – but what about Payroll? In an article first researched for the Institute of Payroll Professionals, we ask whether Payroll has a role to play as a strategic information provider

Practitioners based in Singapore, France, the UK and US have been recognized in Webster Buchanan’s inaugural Multi-country Payroll Best Practice Awards!