Professional Employer Organization (PEO) providers help businesses to outsource their human resources functions to mitigate the burden of complex HR administration responsibilities.PEO providers perform various employee administration tasks,  such as employee benefits, compensation and payroll administration, workers' compensation, and employment taxes. They are also responsible for processing employee wages, benefits, and payroll while helping in maintaining compliance by keeping track of complex employment laws and offering risk management strategies. This helps to reduce administrative costs, improve productivity, and increase profitability. These services are widely used by small and medium enterprises.

Professional Employer Organization (PEO) Providers

Employer of Record (EOR) solution allows companies to hire, onboard, and manage employees in multiple countries without having to establish a local entity. It manages all payroll-related tasks and compliance but leaves the supervision and work assignment to the sponsor organization. It also handles all the legal and admin tasks associated with being an employer, like paying salaries, withholding taxes, managing benefits and processing onboarding. Apart from helping companies avoid the hassle of setting up a local entity, this arrangement helps in reducing legal risks and is also cost effective as the fee paid to EOR may be lower than the costs of fully employing contractors directly. It is widely used by medium and large enterprises looking to expand into new markets. EOR differs from Professional Employer Organization (PEO) in the sense that a PEO acts as a co-employer, while an EOR is the legal employer of an organization’s distributed workforce.

Employer of Record (EOR)

WFM is a solution comprising software, services and (often) hardware that helps organizations manage the operational deployment of their workers. In most cases, WFM is deployed for hourly paid/blue-collar employees. However, the deployment of WFM for both hourly and salaried workers is justifiable in several cases, including when the organization:
Seeks to use the same absence management and/or access control system for both salaried and hourly workers; Captures salaried workers’ overtime and uses that data to calculate gross pay; Schedules salaried workers to work dynamic shifts, rather than set “office” hours; Allocates and tracks salaried workers’ time to projects or tasks and a WFM system is already in use

Workforce Management Applications

Talent acquisition (recruiting) suites are used by recruiting teams to manage the job application selection process. Capabilities include an applicant tracking system, which handles the job requisition, job posting, application, and candidate selection workflows, and a combination of candidate relationship management (also known as sourcing or pipelining) and/or employee onboarding modules. Today’s talent acquisition suites offer a variety of functions with an emphasis on automation and AI-enabled capabilities to provide a streamlined, engaging experience for all stakeholders involved in the hiring process, such as recruiters, hiring managers and candidates.
Organizations that do their own hiring require a means to engage, select and onboard would-be employees.

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) Suites

Absence Management Software are designed to streamline the management, recording, and analysis of employee absences, replacing outdated manual methods such as paper forms and spreadsheets. They automate leave processing, allowing employees to choose from multiple types of leaves and submit absence requests, and allow managers to approve them through customizable workflows tailored to company policies and compliance requirements. It includes features such as real-time tracking, notifications, and mobile accessibility for managing requests on-the-go. These platforms also provide detailed reporting and analytics, delivering insights about absence trends to help organizations optimize workforce efficiency and plan resource allocation effectively. Additionally, they seamlessly integrate with existing HR systems and provide calendar integration, ensuring data accuracy and aligning leave data with organizational calendars to boost visibility and facilitate planning. Employees can also access their remaining leave balances through a self-service portal, promoting transparency and self-management. These solutions are utilized by human resources departments, managers, and employees.

Absence Management Software

Gartner defines the multicountry payroll solution market as a market for product offerings/solutions designed to streamline and unify payroll processing across multiple jurisdictions, addressing the payroll complexities of managing a global workforce. These solutions mitigate compliance risks, reduce administrative overhead and enhance payroll accuracy and timeliness. Delivery models include in-house payroll software, payroll managed services, payroll business process outsourcing and payroll aggregation, each offering varying service levels from internal processing to fully outsourced payroll management.

Multicountry Payroll Solutions

Gartner defines cloud human capital management (HCM) suites for regional and/or sub-1,000+ employee enterprises as cloud application suites that deliver functionality for attracting, developing, engaging, retaining and managing employees.
Cloud HCM suites for regional and/or sub-1,000 employee enterprises are designed to support transactions and/or analytical processing for more than one of the following use cases within a single integrated solution: Manage organization and employee historical data, life cycle processes and transactional employee/manager self-service; Attract and retain talent through sourcing, applicant tracking, onboarding, performance management and learning; Manage organizational structure through creating, planning and limiting employee positions. Maintain a record of workforce data through assigned positions; Manage the operational deployment of salaried and hourly workers to capture time worked and absences; Deliver tools to help employers manage country-specific compliance with legislation and agreements pertaining to data residency and labor laws.

Cloud HCM Suites for Regional and/or Sub-1,000 Employee Enterprises

Gartner defines user authentication as the journey-time process that provides credence in a claim to an identity established for a person for access to digital assets. User authentication is delivered by some combination of (a) an authenticator, (b) signals evaluation and (c) an authentication decision point, which may be from different vendors.

User Authentication

Organizations use expense management software to simplify their expense reimbursement and reconciliation process. The software provides facilities for expense report creation, submission, approval, reimbursement, and accounting. The software replaces the manual paperwork with an automated workflow to upload, track and submit expense receipts conveniently. These reimbursement receipts are accessible to the administrators through a streamlined process to approve the claims while checking for any corporate policy violations. In addition, the software assists organizations in keeping track of their employee’s corporate expenses.

Expense Management Software

Gartner defines HCM suites for 1,000+ employee enterprises as cloud applications that deliver functionality for attracting, developing, engaging, administering and rewarding employees.
HCM suites for 1,000+ employee enterprises are designed to support transactions and/or analytical processing on a cloud architecture for more than one of the following use cases within a single integrated solution:
1. Manage organization and employee data, life cycle processes and transactional employee/manager self-service.
2. Manage organizational structure through creating, planning, monitoring and controlling job positions. Maintain a record of workforce data through assigned positions for effective workforce management and budget planning.
3. Attract, select and onboard talent through recruiting, internal mobility and onboarding.
4. Retain and develop the workforce through compensation, learning, performance and career pathing.
5. Pay employees timely and accurately along with essential benefits to address employee requirements in health, retirement, wellness and/or well-being.
6. Manage the operational deployment of salaried and hourly workers to capture time, attendance and absences.
7. Deliver tools to assist employers in managing country-specific compliance with legislation and agreements pertaining to data residency and labor laws.
8. Integrate with notable enterprise applications and provide robust reporting capabilities (e.g., finance, procurement).

Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises (Transitioning to HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises)

Benefits management software is a tool that helps HR teams to manage and automate employee benefits programs. This includes designing, implementing, communicating, and administering benefits plans, such as health insurance, retirement plans, and other employee benefits. Benefits management software also helps employers manage their compliance with government regulations, such as the ACA, ERISA, and HIPAA. Additionally, its analytics and reporting feature helps employers analyze their benefits costs and make informed decisions about their benefits programs, while integration with other systems ensures that employee data is up-to-date and consistent across all systems.

Benefits Management Software

Corporate Travel Management Software empowers organizations to streamline the process of arranging travels and managing all travel-related expenses while complying with corporate travel policies. The software allows employees to book, manage and track trips without the intervention of any specialist agents. These trips can be approved and reimbursed by the administrators through an automated approval workflow. Organizations use software to create travel data reports as well as to gain insights to control and optimize their travel spend. The functionality of the software is also extended to tracking and consolidating historical travel invoices.

Corporate Travel Management Software

Time and attendance software is a system that automates the process of tracking employee work hours, attendance, leave, and overtime. It helps businesses manage labor costs, improve efficiency, and ensure compliance with labor laws. As part of a comprehensive workforce management solution, the software offers real-time attendance tracking to minimize time theft and manages leave requests with automated approvals and a centralized leave balance view. The enhanced accuracy of these automated systems leads to more precise payroll processing, while detailed reports on attendance patterns, overtime, and absences help managers make informed decisions. The mobile app enables employees to clock in/out, view schedules, and request leave from their devices. Typical users include large corporations, healthcare facilities, and retail and hospitality businesses.

Time and Attendance Software

Gartner defines access management (AM) as tools that include authentication, authorization, single sign-on (SSO) and adaptive access capabilities for modern standards-based web applications, classic web applications and APIs.
AM’s purpose is to give people (employees, consumers and other users) and machines access to protected applications in a streamlined and consistent way that enhances the user experience. For people, SSO is part of the enhanced experience. AM is also responsible for providing security controls to protect the user session during runtime. It enforces authentication and runtime authorization using adaptive access. Lastly, AM can provide identity context for other cybersecurity tools and reliant applications to enable identity-first security.

Access Management

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Negotiations with Rippling on prices for their services can be frustrating because the platform is still a fledgling with limited customizations and many bugs/oversights that our HR team needs to discover for them to work on fixing, but at the same time, many services from Rippling are a la carte and it feels like they nickel and dime you for every feature, despite the limited capabilities of what they offer.

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Rippling has a strong feature and services set. It's easy to use, has a modern interface that makes navigating the application easy, and their customer support team is always ready to help.

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Basic functionalities are there and setup for the US is well established and working well, international setup is not working as promised or only partially enabled by the software.

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I was unable to comment on the first two questions as I was not part of the negotiation or transition from anything previous.  But for delivery and capability, it's been seamless.  

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Rippling Global Payroll is a full-service, native global payroll engine that processes pay runs and automatically calculates, files, and pays taxes. Admins can process payroll in 5 days, and view taxes, gross pay, and currency conversions during pay runs. They can also add bonuses, commission, and reimbursements, adjust pay runs after they’ve been submitted, and prorate payroll or run off-cycle pay runs for both domestic and international employees and contractors. 

Rippling Global Payroll integrates with Rippling Time & Attendance, Rippling Spend Management, Rippling Benefits Administration, and other products so admins never have to worry about manually calculating payroll or updating deductions and expenses.

Rippling is an all-in-one platform for HR, IT, payroll, and spend management. Effortlessly manage the entire employee lifecycle, from hiring to benefits administration. Automate HR tasks, ensure compliance, and streamline approvals. Simplify IT with device management, software access, and compliance monitoring, all from one dashboard. Enjoy timely payroll, real-time financial visibility, and dynamic spend policies. Rippling empowers your business to save time, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency, allowing you to focus on growth. 

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR, IT, and Finance ‚Äî  payroll, benefits, expenses, corporate cards, computers, apps, and more ‚Äî in one unified workforce platform.

By connecting every workforce system to a single source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees' payroll, health insurance, corporate card, work computer, and third-party apps ‚Äî like Slack, Zoom, and Office 365 ‚Äî all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $700M from the world‚Äôs top investors‚Äîincluding Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, and Bedrock‚Äîand was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes (#12 out of 500) and the #1 fastest-growing private company in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times.

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance.
It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a
company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers so you can manage and automate
every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.
Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee
anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer,
benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365-all within 90 seconds.