Rentokil selects Workday to manage HR

Market Watch reports.

"As a large company with a small HR team, it is absolutely imperative that we leverage leading-edge technologies we trust to provide us the information we need to do our jobs," says Martin Sawkins, group HR director at Rentokil Initial.

According to Computing.co.uk, Rentokil is not new to cloud services or SaaS, having previously migrated 20 000 employees across the globe to Google Apps and a works procurement application to Ariba.

"Technology aside, this is a big change for us, so we are taking a cautious approach," says Fergal Harkin, group HR operations director.

"From the HR perspective, we are pretty light on [on-premise, licensed] apps - we have one standard, global database for the top 2 000 around the organisations, and the rest tends to be manual HR processes and an external payroll service provider."

It was crucial that Workday could integrate with Rentokil's local payroll systems, many of which are proprietary and differ from one country to another.