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Redefining Workforce and Payroll: It’s not 1995! Where Is Payroll Headed Amid the AI-Shaped Workforce of Many Colors? The workforce of the future is no longer defined just by professions but by how people work.
Ayşe Nazmiye Uça is the Founder and Chairman of the Turkish Payroll Association and established Turkey’s first payroll outsourcing company 26 years ago. Her company, Datassist, leads the market in technology-centered payroll services, catering to Fortune 500 companies and major Turkish corporations. Datassist excels in Regulation Technologies (RegTech) and continues to expand through strategic investments and business partnerships, aiming to offer comprehensive services in an evolving market. In 2024, Ayşe ranked 20th among Turkey’s top 100 female founders by Fast Company magazine, based on company turnover. Her life purpose is to shape organizations, create new opportunities, and guide her employees toward achieving their career goals. 22 I 04:05
T hink of today’s workforce like a simulation—a sprawling city you might build in a game like SimCity. Each zone— industrial, commercial, civic—has its own logic, needs, and problems. Some are thriving; others are neglected or completely off the grid. Now imagine trying to update that simulation while it’s still running. That’s what managing the modern payroll landscape feels like.
At the recent TUBISAD “Technologies of the Future” event, Ufuk Tarhan shared a color- based classification of the workforce—blue, yellow, red, green, and black— that effectively captures this transformation. Was it Yuval Harari who first articulated society’s stratification by color? Or someone else? I’m not sure. But I want to look at this color-coded model from
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