PayrollOrg President-Elect Jim Medlock, CPP, recently lent his decades of payroll experience to HR.com’s “Future of Payroll and Workforce Management” podcast.
Jim Medlock is a Payroll Compliance Educator at Medlock & Associates and was the former Education Advisor for PayrollOrg. He is a PayrollOrg Ambassador and a volunteer on PayrollOrg’s National Speakers Bureau, Ask an Expert Committee, Certification Item Development Task Force, Best Practices Subcommittee of the Strategic Payroll Leadership Task Force (SPLTF), and the Federal Issues and State and Local Topics Subcommittees of the Government Relations Task Force (GRTF). He was also a guest on PayrollOrg’s “PayTalk” Podcast®. He received PayrollOrg’s Team Member Legend award in 2018 and was named Payroll Man of the Year in 1991.
Joining host Brent Skinner on Episode 014: History Is on the Side of Strategic Payroll, Medlock discussed the historical changes he has witnessed in the payroll profession and how those changes can position payroll as a strategic partner to the C-suite. They explored how changes in competencies and technology empowers payroll to aid strategic decision-making—such as in mergers and acquisitions (M&A)—and why it is better to involve payroll in such decisions sooner than later. They also touched on the need to pass down the institutional knowledge of seasoned professionals experienced with processing payroll from scratch, for those times when technology fails.
HR.com is the largest network of HR professionals, helping build careers and enhance job performance with events, learning products, webcasts, and SHRM and HRCI certification exam preparation. Past episodes of “Future of Payroll and Workforce Management” have covered such topics as the use of artificial intelligence (AI), attracting and retaining employees, and payroll fraud. Watch the episode now on HR.com or YouTube.
Sean Tait Bircher is Writer and Editor of Membership Publications for PayrollOrg.
