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| even without the new partnership, we believe our progress last year including growing the sales organization, validating new marketing efforts and staffing up our service team positions the company well for growth acceleration over the coming year |
| This adds to my confidence in the strategic partnership delivering this solution with the potential to greatly enhance the likelihood, degree and speed of success for this target market |
| As I said at the beginning, it's a monumental day for us and we're just excited about the potential to elevate the trajectory of our company driving long-term growth, profitability, and of course, value creation for all of us |
| Now, in addition to a potential improvement in new sales and client retention, I believe this strategic partnership may have a meaningful effect on our third key driver to our business model pricing our services |
| after a thorough evaluation of last year, there are two areas that we believe would have made the year significantly stronger, even in a tougher environment |
| So, we believe our Customer for Life strategy will be enhanced by this strategic partnership, by providing a solution that should reduce large client terminations and better position us to capitalize on our historical success penalty in the future by continuing to provide services even after a client leaves our Workforce Optimization solution |
| We expect the new solution will better position us to meet the needs of our larger clients, which we believe will allow us to retain these clients for a longer period that is more in line with Workday's exceptional retention track record |
| Our retention was strong except for our mid-market client attrition, which included our success penalty on seven of our large accounts |
| these results demonstrated our ability to effectively execute our pricing strategy while managing our direct costs over the full year |
| We're a great company with a great business model, great foundation, but what this really does is leverage the strengths of both companies in a powerful way for clients |
| And it does, as you mentioned it is a powerful new starting point for what I believe has been an incredible run already for Insperity |
| We continued to produce strong cash flow and ended the year with a solid balance sheet while continuing to invest in the business and providing strong return to our shareholders |
| We helped grow significantly as our success penalty |
| We reacted well to this dynamic and had significantly stronger fourth quarter booked sales |
| that is powerful and I believe will make an incredible the incredible benefit to the target market |
| So, we believe that this is going to be an excellent solution for growing companies as small as a 100 employees that fit that profile, and then all the way up to the very high end of whatever we've developed before into the thousands of employees |
| We got to -- we want to get this one right launched and especially deployed, and enabled properly, because that is a huge competitive advantage and a disruptor, provided we get that right |
| I think both of our companies believe that the smaller firms that fit the target market for our new solution are also very, very good candidates for their other solution |
| We believe that our joint solution will provide the target market of growing small and mid-sized businesses with as few as 100 employees with a new scalable capability with the potential to greatly enhance their likelihood, degree and speed of success |
| The complementary strength of both firms directed toward this target market creates a powerful opportunity |
| Workday has an incredible financial services offering in the marketplace as well |
| They have been tremendously successful, and we believe they are the industry leader and premium brand in the space |
| Rather, it represents our view of the opportunity to significantly increase returns over the long term |
| This is where we believe Insperity is an excellent fit for Workday |
| So, the power of this strategic partnership with Workday for Insperity is the long-term potential to significantly drive three of our most important key success factors, new sales, client retention and pricing |
| We have also been tremendously successful and we believe we are the industry leader in the premium brand in our space |
| Now, the new strategic partnership with Workday is timely due to the potential to provide a step-up in the volume of sales opportunities and improve large account retention substantially beyond the level we could achieve on our own |
| This is where we believe Workday is an excellent fit for Insperity |
| I also believe these two powerful brands have made a commitment to work together strategically enhancing the likelihood degree and speed of success for this dynamic Workday Insperity strategic partnership |
| And what we have experienced, as I mentioned about our success penalty is when clients are either fast growing and/or grow to a certain size, our HCM technology is tremendous, but it's really more designed for small businesses at the lower end of the scale, really for the -- maybe 100 or less or up to 200 or 300 |
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| these factors were the primary contributors to a lower starting point going into the year and reduced our full-year 2024 growth rate by about 4%, which is about $40 million in gross profit |
| these same headwinds contributed to declines in client retention to an annual rate of 83% and worksite employees paid from new sales |
| our growth in paid worksite employees continued to be impacted by macroeconomic headwinds, particularly the significant decline in our hiring base over the past year |
| Additionally, the current macroeconomic factors and generally uncertainty in the marketplace led to our client base experiencing net reduction in employees over the second half of 2023 continuing into January 2024 |
| The Q4 year-over-year comparison represents a decline in gross profit due to the unusually low-benefit cost in Q4 of 2022 |
| gross profit per worksite employee per month, our key pricing and direct cost metric was $277 in 2023, just slightly below our budget despite elevated healthcare costs in Q2 |
| This economic backdrop in our target market also affected decision-making in the sales process, which was most apparent in the third quarter |
| We expect this investment will cause a drag on adjusted EBITDA and earnings per share for a couple years |
| In fact, minimal hiring in our clients -- client base experienced over the first half of 2023 turned into a low level of net reductions in the latter half |
| And so a lot of times it misses the mark for the company |
| This contributed to paid worksite employee growth in Q4 of 2.5%, slightly below the low end of our forecasted range |
| To do something late this year would be a crazy possibility |
| The midpoint of this range is about $90 million below the prior year, of which approximately $60 million is related to the partnership with Workday |
| But oh man, I lost my thought |
| The full year was not as strong in our core BPA sales as we had originally expected |
| This was reflected most noticeably in the net change in employment within our client base, slowing from a solid net gain in the first half of the year to net reductions over the last half and into January |
| Subsequent to Q1, we expect this metric to step down in each of the following three quarters as payroll tax wages and benefit plan deductibles are met |
| Now historically, we have considered losing large accounts |
| So not quite as high |
| So, when considering these factors, we are forecasting worksite employee growth for Q1 of 2024 to be in a range of a 1% decline to flat and expect growth of 2% to 3% for the full year |
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