Artificial Intelligence Can Drive Payroll Process, Expert Says

This may sound like a payroll professional’s dream: a system that automatically flags anomalies in time tracking, finds patterns in employee absences, generates smart audits that can spot potential problems, and recommend steps for better compliance.

But give it a few years, and those functions could be reality, said Rahul Lakhanpal, product marketing manager at Workday, a provider of computer cloud applications for finance, human resources, and planning.

Smart payroll, powered by technology, is going to let companies make smart choices that will ...