04:05 FOREWORD
Payroll Trust
This month, our contributors are exploring the balance between innovation and integrity. AI-Powered Global Payroll: Trustworthy Tech in a Borderless World looks at what it really means to build reliability into automation. I’m Not a Robot (But Are You Really Sure?) examines how identity, authenticity, and payroll security intersect in an era of deepfakes and digital deception. And The Power of Connection reminds us that while technology may process the data, people and relationships are the powerful forces sustaining the trust behind every payslip. Industry-wide, a new kind of professionalism is emerging, and it is grounded in transparency, accountability, and care. At 04:05 , we’ll continue to highlight the conversations that prove we’re making progress in payroll by embracing technology, keeping people at the centre of everything we build and staying open to learning and growing every day. To share your perspective right now, take our five-minute Global Payments Survey .
T rust has always been a quiet constant of payroll. Employees trust us with their livelihoods; businesses trust us with their reputation. But as automation, AI, and digital transformation change the parameters of our working world, trust is being tested in new and complex ways. The recent Capita data breach fines serve as a sobering reminder that even established organisations are vulnerable to attack and that the heaviest cost of lost data is lost confidence. With cybercrime now recognised as the leading risk to global businesses, the question for global payroll isn’t whether we adopt new technologies, but how we do so responsibly.
Melanie Pizzey
Melanie Pizzey GPA CEO
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ISSUE 17 GLOBAL PAYROLL MAGAZINE
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