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PayTalk Podcast


PayTalk is a monthly podcast created with the goal of sharing earned knowledge from high-level payroll professionals to the greater industry at large. Join us each month as we take a look at the leaders behind the payroll processes. Whether you’re just starting out in payroll or are a seasoned professional, PayTalk will help uncover the insights needed to unlock the next stage of your career.



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EPISODE 49: Strategic Data and Global Payroll Operations

In this podcast: (available May 3, 2024)

  • Aligning payroll operations with organizational goals
  • How to take data to the next level
  • Biggest challenges global payroll teams face in the world today

Sponsored by: ukg-Immedis-200




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EPISODE 48: Global Payroll Operations: Outsourcing vs. In House

In this podcast:

  • Expectations vs. reality for in-house global operations and outsourced teams
  • Factors that impact the decision to outsource or keep multi-country payroll in house
  • Risk profiles between outsourced and in-house global payroll operations

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EPISODE 47: Mastering Payroll Communications

In this podcast:

  • How to start now to improve your communication skills
  • Key communication skills to elevate your career
  • Tailoring your communication style for diverse teams


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EPISODE 46: AI-Powered Payroll: Redefining the Future of WFM

In this podcast:

  • How AI is reshaping the payroll industry
  • Benefits/Risks of incorporating AI into payroll processes
  • Advice on how to navigate AI integration, data analysis, and more


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EPISODE 45: Merge With Caution: Emotional Intelligence in M&A

In this podcast:

  • Areas of expertise payroll should focus on
  • How to prepare for future M&A activity
  • Tips for handling high employee emotions




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EPISODE 44: Pay Transparency: Insights from the Robert Half 2024 Salary Guide

In this podcast:

  • Pay transparency laws impact on employers, job seekers
  • Guidance on salary, benefits negotiations
  • Retention strategies for managers

Sponsored by: Robert-Half-pod

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EPISODE 43: The Global Payroll Pulse Survey Special

In this podcast:

  • Top priorities for global payroll
  • How to address global mobility, nexus
  • Leading-edge capabilities, trends payroll teams are talking about

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EPISODE 42: From Payday to Any Day: Unpacking On-Demand Pay Impacts

In this podcast:

  • The trends influencing companies to adopt
  • Implementation best practices
  • Compliance, legal implications

Sponsored by:2019_RAPID-pod

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EPISODE 41: Pairing Up to Pare Down: Streamlining HCM Complexities

In this podcast:

  • How business sees HCM
  • ERP systems and HCM apps
  • Partner selection process

Sponsored by: Vertex-120

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EPISODE 40: Mastering the Global Payroll Game: Unveiling the Secrets of Operating Systems

In this podcast:

  • Key features, functionalities of global payroll OS
  • How the right payroll OS can help with compliance
  • Best practices for a global payroll OS implementation

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EPISODE 39: More Interviews With Global Payroll Leaders Shaping the Landscape of Tomorrow

In this special guest podcast:

  • Challenges, opportunities with global payroll
  • Technology's impact on the industry
  • Payroll's Future

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EPISODE 38: Interviews With Global Payroll Leaders Shaping the Landscape of Tomorrow

In this special guest podcast:

  • Technology's impact on the industry
  • The challenges and opportunities that come with global payroll
  • Payroll's Future
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EPISODE 37: Stepping Into Global Payroll: Part Two

In this podcast:

  • More of the global skills needed
  • Examples of global payroll nightmares
  • Best pieces of global payroll advice, shared by our experts

 

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EPISODE 36: Stepping Into Global Payroll: Part One

In this podcast:

  • How to transition from domestic to global payroll
  • Different processing models
  • Skills needed, and more!


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EPISODE 35: Developing Payroll Competencies - How to Promote Full-Time Compliance

In this podcast:

  • Key challenges to ensuring compliance
  • Identifying core competencies needed to master compliance
  • Competency measurements, data to use, and more!

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EPISODE 34: Accelerated Innovation in Payroll

In this podcast:

  • The latest payroll innovations
  • Global consolidated payroll data
  • Self-service options, and more!

Sponsored by:immedis-120

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EPISODE 33: Consulting With a Payroll Consultant

In this podcast:

  • How to determine if consulting is right for you
  • Skills needed
  • Changes in, and future of, consulting



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EPISODE 32: Business Leadership Skills for Future-Ready Payroll Pros

In this podcast:

  • Lessons from the top
  • Résumé refresher
  • Staying in the know

Sponsored by: Robert-Half-pod

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EPISODE 31: Borderless Hiring and Building the Best Team on Earth

In this podcast:

  • Benefits to borderless hiring
  • Common pitfalls
  • Impacts on company culture

Sponsored by: Omnipresent-pod

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EPISODE 30: Earned Wage Access: The Payroll of the Future?

In this podcast:

  • The types of earned wage access (EWA)
  • What payroll's role is in defining and creating EWA best practices
  • The future of EWA

Sponsored by:2019_RAPID-pod

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EPISODE 29: The Best of Payroll Advice

In this podcast:

  • Career trajectory
  • Helpful resources
  • Mentorship, guidance, and lots more advice!



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EPISODE 28: A Primer in Data Analytics: Part Two

In this podcast:

  • How HR can use data analytics for employee projections, retention
  • Specific programs, other tools to use
  • What questions to ask to get the right analytics

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EPISODE 27: A Primer in Data Analytics: Part One

In this podcast:

  • Ways payroll analytics can monitor business operations, prevent fraud
  • How data analytics can be used to improve employee retention
  • The technological tools to use


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EPISODE 26: A Global Perspective on Family Leave

In this podcast:

  • Antenatal leave
  • Tax and social insurance implications
  • Expat employees


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EPISODE 25: Digitization, Global Payroll, and You!

In this podcast:

  • The business impact when technology strategies are misaligned
  • Key technology trends, and its future, in global payroll
  • The problems, and how to fix them, of project implementations

Sponsored by:immedis-120

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EPISODE 24: Working From Home ... Abroad!

In this podcast:

  • Immigration issues
  • Reporting obligations
  • Cross-border enforcement of payroll responsibilities


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EPISODE 23: The Joy of HRIS

In this podcast:

  • The basics of HRIS
  • How to expand your career or company into HRIS
  • The intersection of payroll and systems technology



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EPISODE 22: The Recipe for a Successful Payroll 2022: Part Two

In Part Two of this podcast:

  • How technology helps make an efficient payroll professional
  • Why payroll and HR make a great team
  • The impact data has on global payroll operations



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EPISODE 21: The Recipe for a Successful Payroll 2022: Part One

In this podcast:

  • What team leaders can do to help a hesitant team prioritize self-care
  • The secret ingredients to a successful payroll team
  • The importance of relationship management in global payroll operations

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EPISODE 20: Empathy, Technology & the Payroll Practitioner

In this podcast:

  • Examples of digital innovations reshaping the employee experience
  • The greatest technological impact for the year to come
  • How technology is helping to enable the employee-employer relationship

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EPISODE 19: The Best of the Best Practices

In this podcast:

  • How to get into a best practices mindset
  • Some key indicators of waste in a payroll department
  • A payroll best practices road map, and more


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EPISODE 18: Year-End Prep for Payroll Nomads

In this podcast:

  • Remote work (nomads) impact on YE reporting (state nexus issues)
  • Nontaxable fringe benefit incentives
  • 2020 social security deferrals, and more

Sponsored by:2019_RAPID-pod

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EPISODE 17: Hybrid Workforce: Tempering Sweatpants and Socialization

In this podcast:

  • The evolution of the hybrid workforce model
  • Resources for supporting a hybrid workforce
  • Potential billing or tax issues



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EPISODE 16: Global Outsourcing Management

In this podcast:

  • First steps to take when offshore expansion is occurring
  • How to determine the right outsourcing model for your company
  • What to look for in the right outsourcing partner


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EPISODE 15: A Payroll Transformation Story

In this podcast:

  • Emerging trends and transformation challenges to stay on top of
  • Outsourcing by HR and payroll departments
  • The transformation from domestic to global payroll

Sponsored by:Cloudpay-120

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EPISODE 14: Mergers and Acquisitions and Taxes, Oh My!

In this podcast:

  • How to make sure the payroll team is part of the merger and acquisition conversation early
  • First things a payroll department should do in a merger or acquisition
  • Federal, state, or local regulations covering mergers and acquisitions

Sponsored by:Cloudpay-120

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EPISODE 13: How to Navigate Payroll's Legal Pitfalls

In this podcast:

  • The most common legal payroll issues
  • What happens in a payroll legal audit
  • What to do if a lawsuit ensues

Sponsored by:Cloudpay-120

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EPISODE 12: An American Take on Global Payroll

In this podcast:

  • Insight into setting up global payroll operations
  • Where to find global payroll resources
  • How to overcome challenges to global payroll

Sponsored by:immedis-120

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EPISODE 11: The Evolution of Payroll's Technological Revolution

In this podcast:

  • How payroll strategy and technology marry together
  • What a modern global payroll manager looks like
  • The things a payroll professional should be aware of as their work becomes more visible


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EPISODE 10: Data Driven Storytelling in Payroll

In this podcast:

  • Uncover the power of visual storytelling through data
  • Learn the core technology competencies needed to harness data
  • Find out the future of data collection and reporting

Sponsored by:ukg-pod-120

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EPISODE 9: Stoking a Passion for Payroll

In this podcast:

  • What drives you to keep improving payroll
  • How to stay engaged and have fun
  • The skills and competencies most important for global payroll

 

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EPISODE 8: 2020's Impact on Unemployment Insurance

In this podcast:

  • The biggest changes to unemployment insurance
  • Best practices to deal with employers operating across multiple states
  • How these changes will continue to evolve in 2021

Sponsored by:2019_RAPID-pod

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EPISODE 7: Farewell 2020: Year-End Prep

In this podcast:

  • Reconciliations – Why important, Who requires them
  • Forms W-2 questions
  • COVID-19 impact on year-end processes

Sponsored by:2019_RAPID-pod

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EPISODE 6: How Trends Today Help Define the Payroll of Tomorrow

In this podcast:

  • Top three results from the Global Payroll Benchmarking Survey
  • The need for a global payroll strategy
  • The future of payroll with next generation technology, pay on demand, and more



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EPISODE 5: Unlocking the Power of Payroll Certifications

In this podcast:

  • Preparing for the Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) exam
  • Benefits of a CPP designation for your career
  • Tips to grow your career exponentially after the CPP




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EPISODE 4: The Era of Payments as Policy: Part Two

In this podcast:

  • Predictions for future Economic Impact Payments
  • Insight into the pros and cons of prepaid cards
  • A deep dive into the potential nightmare of physical check distribution


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EPISODE 3: The Era of Payments as Policy: Part One

In this podcast:

  • Nacha and the CARES Act
  • Economic Impact Payment concerns
  • Overall impact on pre-paid cards




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EPISODE 2: APA’s Newest President

In this podcast:

  • Find out how APA’s newest President begins her term virtually and what it was like being sworn in
  • Learn the role volunteering plays in paving your path to success
  • Explore the impact the pandemic has had on the payroll profession

Sponsored by:2019_RAPID-pod

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EPISODE 1: The Strategic Payroll Professional

In this podcast:

  • Hear how the payroll profession has evolved
  • Find out how the payroll professional helps to drive strategic decisions
  • Explore those strategic decisions needed in today’s demanding compliance needs




About Our Host
Nina Talley is a creative content professional who has been developing engaging experiences for high-level topics like software and healthcare for more than a decade. In her downtime, you'll likely find her pursuing her creative writing, or petting a dog.

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