Zalaris ASA has been awarded a five-year agreement to provide outsourced payroll
services to Telefónica's 8,200 employees in Germany.

As part of the agreement Zalaris will consolidate Telefónica Deutschland / O2's
two SAP payroll solutions to Zalaris' SAP powered PeopleHub concept with the
goal of maximising quality and efficiency through automation and digital
workflows. The solution will be integrated with Telefónica Deutschland / O2's
SAP SuccessFactors based global HR system with a production start date in
January 2022.

Telefónica's employees and managers will receive a comprehensive suite of
payroll outsourcing services from Zalaris' Leipzig based service center.
Reuse of trusted SAP Payroll/Time on-premise solutions with Mobile App enabled
processes and automation technologies in the Zalaris Cloud.

Zalaris' cloud based transformational Payroll and HR approach supports customers
consolidating multiple solutions into one cloud-based system in a timely and
cost-effective manner. The services are perfect for companies that want to
future proof their investments in SAP Payroll and Time through moving these to
the Zalaris Cloud platform located in Europe.  Including responsibility for the
maintenance and future upgrades, mobile app supported processes, analytics and
extensive automation delivered back as Business Process as a Service (BPaas).

Integration between global HR and Payroll is key for quality and efficiency

"Fully integrated with global HR solutions as SAP SuccessFactors, Workday or
Oracle and combined with our full-service payroll outsourcing offering allows
customers as Telefonica Deutschland to rapidly reap the benefits while leaving
all the complexity of implementation and maintenance with us," says Hans-Petter
Mellerud, Zalaris CEO and founder.

"Together with people focused and digitally literate Telefónica Deutschland we
have high ambitions in terms of digitalisationof processes. We already
appreciate working together and are confident that our platform-based solutions
will deliver on promise" - says Marianne Gause, Vice President Managed Services
Germany.

Contact:

Hans-Petter Mellerud, CEO and founder
Mobile: +47 928 97 276
E-mail: hans-petter.mellerud@zalaris.com

Marianne Gause, Vice President Managed Services, Germany
Mobile: +49 151 14860215
Email: Marianne.gause@zalaris.com



About Zalaris

Zalaris simplify HR and payroll administration, and empower you with useful
information so that you can invest more in people. We are a leading service
provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions across Europe, serving more
than 1.5 million employees monthly with an annual revenue of 78 million Euros
(2020). We hold #1 or #2 positions in most of our markets. Our consultants have
more than 21 years of experience in transforming HR with our clients. Simplify
work life. Achieve more. For more information about us, go to zalaris.com.

About Telefónica Deutschland / O2

Telefónica Deutschland / O2 offers telecommunications services for private and
business customers, as well as innovative digital products and services in the
fields of the Internet of Things and data analytics. The company is one of the
leading integrated telecommunications providers in Germany. In the mobile
segment alone, Telefónica Deutschland / O2 is responsible for more than 42,9
million connections excluding M2M (as of 31 Dec 2020) - no other domestic
network operator connects more people. Through its core brand O2 and various
secondary and partner brands, the company sells postpaid and prepaid mobile
telecommunications products including innovative mobile data services. The basis
for this is a mobile service network based on a highly reliable GSM, UMTS and
LTE infrastructure. At the same time, the company is setting up an energy
-efficient high-performance 5G network. Telefónica Deutschland also provides
telephony and high-speed internet products on the basis of various technologies.
Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG has been listed in the Prime Standard on the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX) since 2012. In the 2020 financial year, the
company generated revenue of EUR 7.5 billion with almost 8,200 employees. The
company is majority owned by the Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica
S.A., headquartered in Madrid. With operations in 12 countries and a customer
base of base of approximately 345 million connections, the group is one of the
world's biggest telecommunications providers.