The Truth About Global Payroll Compliance: What Vendors Won't Say

Why do most global payroll projects fail to meet their 12-month deadlines? Vendors often blame data quality, but the real reason for these massive global payroll implementation failures is hidden in the outdated architecture of the industry itself.

In this episode of Work Tech Weekly, we reveal what vendors won't say about payroll management challenges. Jerome Gouvernel, CEO of datascalehr and former architect of ADP GlobalView, joins us to explain why the traditional "translation" approach to international payroll is broken — and why your Workday or SAP integration shouldn't require learning a new language.

📌 Topics covered:

The Hidden Failure Rate: Why payroll process upgrades often drag on for years.
Why connecting HRIS systems like Workday to local providers creates a non-reusable "language" problem.
Why using "Black Box" GenAI for compliance is dangerous, and why payroll automation requires "White Box" auditability.
Moving from waterfall implementations to agile, transaction-based connections that take hours, not months.

If you are a leader struggling with global payroll compliance or looking for a breakthrough in human resource management technology, this conversation exposes the root cause of the friction.

⏳ In this video:

00:00 - Intro
02:05 - The payroll problem datascalehr is trying to solve
05:46 - Why it takes three years to roll out a global HR system
08:25 - Translating payroll into a new language every implementation
11:45 - The importance of explainability with GenAI
18:17 - Why payroll compliance across 45 countries doesn’t scale
23:51 - Using GenAI to iterate and innovate
25:22 - What happens when vibe coding goes wrong

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