What You Need to Know Acquisitions and other developments this past year show Ceridian maturing into a bona fide global provider of technology for human capital management. Leadership has positioned Ceridian to continue delivering disruptive innovation for the future of work and in the company’s core competencies, workforce management and payroll. Acquisitional Strategy and Expansion of the Global Footprint Successful vendors of this heft usually have well-thought-out acquisitional strategies. Going back to the timely acquisition, back in April 2012, of Dayforce itself, Ceridian’s approach to mergers and acquisitions has been savvy. The strategy of late appears to be twofold in nature. It’s evident that complementing the service suite from a technological standpoint has been a primary motivating factor. For example, with the acquisition of Ideal, […]
Continue readingPaying and Getting Paid — The Future Is Already Out of the Barn
“I want it all, and I want it now!” belted the late, great Freddie Mercury on a criminally underrated song by the rock band Queen. Was he channeling typical first world consumers and employees from some four decades into the future? He might as well have been. People these days, not all of them want it all, truly, but most seem to want whatever it is they do want, now. They expect every accommodation. Leeway and speed are what they want. They want what they buy to arrive as soon as possible. They want to pay in the easiest way available, in a way most accommodating to their needs and wants. And they want the pay they’ve earned so far, right now — not in […]
Continue readingSquare Meets the Moment with Afterpay
Square, the digital payments giant co-founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has this week acquired Australian fintech company Afterpay. The announcement has already made the rounds; plenty of outlets have proffered their own predictions of the effects this acquisition will have on the market. We at 3Sixty Insights see this going far beyond the market moment: we believe that buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) will continue to increase in relevance at the point of sale. By connecting AfterPay directly to purchase transactions, this acquisition has the potential to have a profound and lasting generational effect. Pay and Payments in the Present On-demand pay (ODP) has taken the HR world by storm since DailyPay was founded in 2015. There’s Dayforce Wallet (from Ceridian). Last month, global payroll provider CloudPay […]
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