The work behind the silence.
Notes on HR technology designed to disappear into the day. When you stop noticing the platform, the platform is finally doing its job.
Most technology portfolio reviews answer the wrong question.
Feature comparisons rank vendors. The question CHROs, CFOs, and CIOs are actually asking is different. Different question, different review.
Every reorg leaves access behind. Nobody picks it up.
Inactivating an organization in Workday doesn't clear its security assignments. They accumulate. After a few reorgs, the noise dominates the audit data your reviews depend on.
Onboarding looks automated. Most of it isn't.
The new hire process looks automated from the executive view. Inside it, manual work hides: quietly expensive when it runs, costly when it fails. We help find it and replace it.
Your people grow. Positions get left behind.
Roles evolve. The records describing them often don't. By the time a position is vacated, the drift has become a cost: cleanup, time-to-fill, and offers anchored to roles that no longer exist.
Most security reviews answer the easy question.
A list of security groups is what most CHROs get when they ask who can see compensation. It is the right answer to a different question.