This is also why Ceridian is still around in spite of all of their faults (or so I hear from any small/mid-size business practitioners I know).
I take it that's who you're referring to?
I take it that's who you're referring to?
Most have their pros and cons but ultimately can handle complex union type payrolls.
Payroll, also is ripe for disruption.
From everything I hear about working with those companies—new and suitable replacements would be welcomed wholeheartedly.
That is, if they can maintain the same level of professionalism and ability to handle situations like you mentioned. Reliability is of immense importance, so it's not as easy to just hack away at it and sell people an MVP and iterate.
A mainframe stood between a client and their need.
Maybe we're after a better mainframe that doesn't need so much workarounds to do what has become payroll today.
I'm choosing to be optimistic that if a Stripe can navigate the payments industry, a payments startup could allow a better mainframe to be built through a rules engine that allows the degree of flexibility and data interoperability required in today's world.
ACCURACY: One of the biggest things I learned is that a correct payroll isn't a correctly executed payroll, but one that the employee is paid correctly. What's the difference? A lot of payrolls have a ton of manual adjustments to fill the gaps, which never easily get codified. If the barrier to codifying rules could be improved, it would pretty easily start to push around mainframes.
AUDITING: Existing platforms like Ceridian and ADP appear to do an okay job with their auditing - any calculation set to be done by a computer, rule, or human is forever recorded on the same leger. For what I saw, it was a healthy paranoia of tracking how everything is calculated for liability's sake. Faving this available, for repairing data and fixing payrolls is more important than reliably executing incorrect rules, or data. It creates a great audit trail for weeding out behavior.
I'm in no way endorsing one product, but I was reasonably surprised by ADP's newish workforce platform. Of course, once we got into the weeds, things broke and and processes needed to be hacked or split up, but it was only because the ancient mainframe underpinning could not be touched. Which sucked.
If Teyve said in Fiddler on the Roof, all traditions were new once. Maybe all new mainframes were new once.