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Carey Cook Took the Long Road to the High Road
After 28 years shaping student life, an Idaho educator traded the campus office for payroll, benefits and workers' comp - then merged his young company into a larger regional platform without giving up its local brief.
Sequoia Stayed Independent While Zenefits Became TriNet
The old head-to-head no longer exists. For buyers, the useful question is whether they want Sequoia’s advisor-led comp and benefits model or the TriNet platform that absorbed Zenefits.
Deel Owns The World, TriNet Owns The Backyard
One company hires people in countries where you have no office. The other runs HR for the office you already have. Same industry, almost no overlap - and the choice comes down to where your next hire sits.
Rippling or Justworks Depends on Who Employs Your Team
The dashboards may look similar, but the contract underneath them can move payroll-tax duties, workers' compensation and employer status. Compare the product model before comparing the feature list.
The HR Rivals That Barely Compete
Insperity takes HR work off an owner’s desk. SmartRecruiters gives a global talent team a better desk. The useful comparison starts with who wants to keep control.
Zenefits Disappeared. Sequoia Kept Building.
Two HR platforms promised to make work less painful. One became infrastructure inside TriNet; the other is still betting that advice and software belong together.
The Company That Rents You a CFO, an HR Team, and a Risk Manager - Before Your Ninth Employee Breaks You
Founded in 1951 and running quietly out of Vancouver, Washington, BBSI has turned the least glamorous parts of running a business - payroll, workers' comp, HR paperwork - into a $1.2 billion operation built around one idea: put a real local team in the room.
ADP
Founded to hand-process payroll for a handful of New Jersey firms, ADP now quietly moves the paychecks of one in six American workers - and it hasn't missed a quarterly earnings increase since 1961.
Insperity
Insperity built a $6.8 billion business by taking on the work small companies cannot afford to get wrong. Now its service-heavy PEO model is being rebuilt for a Workday world.
Multiplier
Multiplier is a global employment platform that lets companies hire, onboard, pay and manage full-time employees and contractors in 150+ countries without setting up local entities. Founded in 2020 in Singapore, it bundles Employer of Record (EOR), Contractor of Record, global payroll, PEO and HRIS tooling into one dashboard, handling local labor contracts, tax, benefits and compliance so distributed teams can operate legally across borders.
Workers Benefit Fund
Workers Benefit Fund is a New York-based, mission-driven company that closes the benefits gap for gig workers, freelancers and independent contractors. Acting as a PEO-style solution for the gig industry, it builds the technology, outreach infrastructure and partnerships that platforms, labor unions and public institutions need to connect non-traditional workers with health, wellness and financial benefits. Its flagship work powers the Drivers Benefits program alongside The Black Car Fund, which has enrolled tens of thousands of New York for-hire drivers at no cost to them.
ADP (Automatic Data Processing)
ADP is one of the world's largest providers of payroll and human capital management (HCM) technology and services. Founded in 1949 as a manual payroll bureau in New Jersey, it now runs cloud-based platforms that pay and manage the workforces of more than a million clients across 140 countries, processing pay for roughly 42 million workers. Its business spans payroll, tax filing, benefits, talent, time and attendance, retirement services, and full HR outsourcing through its PEO arm.
Paychex
Paychex is a Rochester, New York-based provider of payroll, human resources, retirement and insurance services for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 1971 by Tom Golisano with $3,000, it has grown into a Fortune 500 company that pays roughly 1 in 11 U.S. private-sector workers and now embeds AI across its platforms following its 2025 acquisition of Paycor.