Benefits Think The power of digitizing the paycheck

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The American job market features a strange paradox: When workers negotiate a job offer, they talk about salary, benefits, even stock options. But they rarely have a say in when they get paid.

That isn’t by accident. The biweekly payroll cycle was built for a world of paper ledgers and manual accounting. It was never designed for a digital economy. Today, the paycheck is a digital product, but it doesn’t operate like one.

Ram Palaniappan, CEO and founder of EarnIn
CEO and founder of EarnIn

Ram Palaniappan is the founder and CEO of EarnIn, a fintech company that helps people access their earnings as they work and gain more control over their cash flow. A longtime entrepreneur, Ram … Read full bio


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