by Matthew Kaiser | September 4, 2013 | HR-Payroll, Industry, Lockton HR Technology, Lockton HR Technology General
Thankfully, I avoided getting caught up in the fast-food labor protests last Thursday since the folks who come and unchain me from my desk each day were stuck in a drive-through lane somewhere. Watching the news, it looks like last Thursday would have been a bad day...
by Matthew Kaiser | August 29, 2013 | Benefits Administration, Lockton HR Technology, Lockton HR Technology General
I got a lot of grief as a kid for daydreaming. Teachers would be trying to change the direction of my misguided youth and I’d be totally zoned out in the back of the classroom wondering if Major Tom or Ziggy Stardust were real people. If adults back then were being...
by Matthew Kaiser | August 20, 2013 | Lockton HR Tech Practice, Lockton HR Technology, Lockton HR Technology General
As children, we always wanted our parents to check under our beds, in our closets and under the blankets for the “boogie-man.” Nightmares of some dark presence gave us chills and left us awake in the middle of the night with nothing but silence and a cold sweat. And...
by Matthew Kaiser | August 16, 2013 | Health Reform / ACA, Lockton HR Technology, Lockton HR Technology General
“. . . just because you have implemented technology, it does not mean you are set for compliance.” With the delay of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibilities and obligations, it is easy to push aside your compliance strategy...
by Matthew Kaiser | August 8, 2013 | Benefits Administration, HR-Payroll, Lockton HR Technology, Lockton HR Technology General
As mentioned in the previous post, there are many ways to define HRIS. So here we go, here are the eight types of systems we look at as a team and we’ll be talking about in this blog. Payroll (the easy one): can someone get paid? – This can include Tax...
by Matthew Kaiser | August 6, 2013 | Benefits Administration, HR-Payroll, Lockton HR Technology, Lockton HR Technology General
When I started this HR Technology consulting practice within Lockton in early 2008, I knew we’d start out focusing on Benefits Administration. After all, around the nation employers were looking to their brokers to help them handle their skyrocketing healthcare costs...
