WISE at Work: Early Results Show Paychex AI Is Reducing Payroll Errors and Improving Service Efficiency at Scale

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    "excerpt": "ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paychex, Inc. (Nasdaq: PAYX), a leading provider of expert-enabled HR, payroll, and benefits, today shared early results from more than 50,000 businesses using WISE (Workforce Intelligence, Strengthened by Expertise). Early adopter data shows WISE is helping customers proactively prevent payroll errors, resolve service interactions faster, and improve efficiency across the Paychex enterprise - validating the company’s strategy to bring agentic AI into mission-critical workforce workflows. Preventing Payroll Errors Before They Happen Recurring payroll issues waste time, create risk, and can undermine employee trust. Companies average a 1.2% payroll error rate, and employees often begin looking for a new job after just two payroll mistakes. As business leaders are increasingly expected to do more with less, persistent demands and expanding priorities leave limited time for manual correction. With WISE intelligence, Intelligent Pay Cycle continuously monitors the pay cycle for anomalies and proactively flags missing pay data, incomplete time records, and unresolved approvals before they become payroll problems, including: “WISE is not a set of AI features. It’s a shared intelligence engine embedded across our platforms to help customers complete work more efficiently and effectively,” said Ryan Bergstrom , Paychex Chief Product...",
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