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The year: 2025
PrismHR is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2025. To commemorate the occasion, we will periodically share stories related to workforce trends over the past four decades. In this blog, we detail 2025 and beyond …
If you’ve been paying attention to our 40th anniversary series, you might have noticed a trend developing: We can learn a lot from the past, but it’s clear the future is brighter than ever! And that’s due to unprecedented innovation designed to help you and your clients succeed.
This year has been nothing short of exhilarating as we’ve opened those time capsules of memories to tell our story—and, more importantly, yours! This is a story about your growth, which has been fueled by technological advances that have helped reshape the HR outsourcer (HRO) industry as we know it.
Things you probably couldn’t fathom possible a generation ago or maybe even 10 years ago are today catapulting the industry to new heights and unprecedented growth.
And, at PrismHR, we’re just getting started to release new ways to help you generate even more revenue for your business while leveling the playing field for your clients as they compete with much larger organizations for talent.
It’s been quite the year all around!
From Labubus to Bon Jovi and Rush announcing they’re ready to hit the road again next year to the upcoming release of the much-anticipated film Wicked: For Good, 2025 has had more than its fair share of developments.
And HROs got to see firsthand how much recent tech developments have changed the game.
It’s safe to say things have been changed for good.
So let’s run it back …
Read our 1985, 1995, 2005 and 2015 posts.
We got things kicked off with the evolution of telecommuting. Today’s HRO technology is built to allow companies and their workers to get the information they need, whenever they need it. And with the PrismOne Mobile app, your clients get next-generation access to HR and payroll functionality wherever and whenever they need it.
We also discussed retirement. It was a challenge for workers then, and it’s a challenge for workers today. That’s where you come in. The new PrismHR Retirement Services offers a smarter, integrated retirement benefit that’s easy for you to manage without adding an administrative or fiduciary burden. In other words, you can help your business grow while helping your clients’ employees’ investments grow.
Cloud storage is one thing—data insights are another. HROs know full well the power of data in today’s HR tech suite. And that speaks to the power of PrismHR’s Report Center and Data Warehouse. These high-tech tools are there to help you and your clients build reports, create data visualizations and more to allow you and them to get the information needed to make the best business decisions.
What about options? Who doesn’t like options? As we discussed in the post, PrismHR’s constantly growing Marketplace gives you and your clients the ability to choose what works best for you and them. PrismHR’s advanced Application Programming Interface (API) is your connection to a world of wonderful solutions.
Our 2005 recap started out with a game-changer—today’s HR tech. While HR outsourcing was not new in 2005, today’s high-tech HRO solutions allow smaller companies to compete for talent with the big guys like never before. That starts with streamlined payroll and HR solutions designed to be intuitive for ease of use.
We also looked into the historically tough job-applicant process, which has often been frustrating for employers and job candidates alike. However, the new PrismHR Applicant Tracking System (ATS) was designed to help your clients find top talent easier and quicker through easy job posting, customized workflows, career portals and comprehensive analytics.
And with the all-new, built-in AI Assistant, your clients can easily generate the best job description to find the best talent. It’s the perfect match!
As discussed, leadership is a topic that never goes out of style—whether it’s 2015 or 2025 or 2525! With PrismHR Performance Management, you’re able to help your clients engage, develop and retain top talent. Leaders don’t materialize; they grow through feedback, experience and hard work. Giving your clients the ability to recognize and help future leaders emerge is key to your clients’ future growth and yours.
10 More Innovations
This has truly been a golden era for HRO tech with unprecedented advancements for PrismHR platform capabilities, so here are some of the best innovations we’ve seen this year:
1. PrismHR TAX
Everyone loves doing their taxes, right? Yeah right! With PrismHR Tax, you and your clients get automated tax calculations and filings as well as comprehensive compliance management with minimum data entry thanks to improved integration and efficiency from this state-of-the-art new solution.
2. PrismHR HR Compliance
Compliance issues are costly. To help, in 2025, PrismHR introduced a simplified HR compliance tool with built-in legal intelligence to help your clients navigate complex labor laws with real-time alerts and an AI-powered chatbot with prescriptive guidance. Think of PrismHR HR Compliance as the peace-of-mind provider you and your clients have been waiting for.
3. PrismHR HCM
The new PrismHR HCM Dashboard offers everything from active client count to the total payroll amount and terminated employees by clients in one place to make tracking your business an easier part of your business. The clients can also see things like onboarding, time-off requests and more to make better business decisions.
4. Workforce Management
Workforce Management went totally chic in 2025 with a modernized User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) and updated design and timesheets. We also added a convenient Paid Time Off (PTO) Sync and Automated Job-Costing sync functionality.
5. Report Center
As we all know, Report Center advancements started ramping up a few years ago, but here are a couple of great innovations that took place in 2025—a new homepage and customizable dashboard with sorting, filtering and workbook assignment. Also, the Employee General Information Dashboard offers visual analytics on hiring, terminations, tenure and more. And this is just scratching the surface of all the great things our customers can do with Report Center.
6. Payroll & HR
Payroll and HR are your bread and butter, right? So adding a Payroll Variance Dashboard with a centralized view of payroll differences to reduce errors and a Marketplace Link for easier access to PrismHR integrations should be welcome additions.
7. Employee Portal
Lots of good things happened this year when it comes to Employee Portal. Here are just a couple: Manager Self-Service Enhancements and a Total Compensation View that includes retirement details in exportable form. And did we mention improved Single Sign On (SSO) Performance that’s up to 50% faster? Or that Embedded Reports give you direct access to dashboards from Report Center? We just did …
8. Benefits Administration
Whether it was adding Semiannual Retirement Eligibility, Retirement Loan Imports or Bulk Import for Benefit Determinants that is designed to reduce errors and save time, Benefits Administration saw a big boost in 2025.
9. Talent Management
You wanted In-App Hiring Notifications with real-time updates in the ATS, and you got ’em! Talent Management is already designed to provide an efficient hiring experience while improving engagement. The talent is off the charts!
10. ClientSpace
ClientSpace also got a UI refresh in 2025 with real-time benefit selections via the Application Programming Interface (API). Real-time alerts for Employee Certifications & Skills were also added. Isn’t it time you made a little space for ClientSpace?
Thank you to all of our customers and your clients for trusting PrismHR for all these years. We can’t wait to see where things will be 40 years from now, but, in many ways, it feels like the future is already here.
James Tehrani is PrismHR’s content marketing manager. He is an award-winning writer and editor based in the Chicago area.
