Payroll and benefits solutions provider ADP today unveiled new generative AI features in its Workforce Now, ADP Global Payroll, and ADP Lyric HCM products during the company’s annual Innovation Day.
The enhancements focus on eliminating time-consuming manual processes that burden the “people function”: payroll anomalies that could require corrections if not caught early, analytics requests that take days to fulfill, and routine compliance tasks that pull teams away from strategic work.
“Every AI feature we build starts with a specific HR problem our clients face daily,” Sreeni Kutam, president of global product and innovation at ADP, said in a statement. “That’s the root of our AI vision—our clients can trust that we’re focused on solving real work challenges, whether it’s the payroll manager spending hours trying to determine the cause of an anomaly in the data, or the HR leader waiting weeks for workforce insights that could have made an immediate impact.
“The technology is not the starting point—we do not design first and solve second,” he added. “We start by listening intently to our clients and finding those moments of friction, ultimately deploying technology that makes those moments easier and gives time back to work that truly matters in supporting people and driving businesses forward.”
The newly unveiled features leverage ADP Assist, the company’s AI-enhanced platform, to address five critical areas where HR teams lose the most time and efficiency:
- Flags payroll anomalies before an error can happen: New anomaly detection and resolution capabilities automatically identify inconsistencies or deviations in payroll data to uncover potential payroll mistakes and suggest corrections for HR practitioners to review and approve. Early adopters report saving up to 30 minutes per payroll cycle through proactive error prevention.
- Getting instant results for HR questions: Users can now ask questions conversationally and get immediate answers, charts, insights, and presentation-ready reports. The system understands context and business intent, turning “How are our overtime costs trending?” into actionable visualizations within seconds while maintaining full user oversight.
- Gaining real-time visibility into workforce trends: Pulling from ADP’s workforce data, spanning more than 1.1 million companies of all sizes across over 140 countries and territories, AI helps HR leaders identify and understand trends that are happening within their workforce that might not be easily evident. Turning raw data into clear guidance and recommended actions, this helps leaders understand workforce trends, spot issues earlier, and make confident decisions faster.
- Global compliance: AI monitors local, national, and emerging workplace requirements, helping clients stay on top of their compliance obligations with recommendations that practitioners can verify and implement.
- Powering personal development with AI: ADP Learning analyzes each employee’s unique role, skills, and career goals to deliver tailored training recommendations to help accelerate their development path.
The ADP Assist platform integrates across payroll, time, talent, benefits, recruitment, analytics, reporting, and compliance functions, providing a unified AI experience that learns from user interactions and improves over time while ensuring users remain in control of critical decisions.
More information about ADP’s Innovation Day announcements can be found here.
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