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Early July SD Worx acquired Socialea, a fast-growing French payroll provider with deep expertise in serving smaller SMEs. With offices in Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and Rennes, Socialea achieved a 22% revenue increase in 2024, reaching EUR 3.3 million.

The acquisition enhances SD Worx’s reach in France, Europe’s third-largest payroll market, and opens new opportunities to scale through accounting firm partnerships. Socialea’s expertise, especially in the lower end of the SME segment, complements SD Worx’s existing offering and enables broader support for employers across France.

SD Worx has been recognised as a Core Leader in the 2025 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Cloud HR, affirming its strong performance, market presence, and innovation in delivering scalable HR solutions to customers of any size across Europe. This recognition highlights SD Worx’s ability to support complex HR needs while maintaining a competitive total cost of ownership.

Protime, a leading European provider of workforce management solutions and part of SD Worx, appointed Jan Van Autreve as its new CEO. With over 20 years of executive experience, Jan succeeds Gille Sebrechts, who can now fully focus on his role as Executive Vice President at SD Worx. This leadership change supports Protime’s continued international growth and strategic ambitions. SD Worx aims to bring Protime to EUR 100 million revenue in the next two years, helping customers across Europe with their WFM solutions.

SD Worx has been ranked 6th in the Everest Group’s BPS Top 50™, highlighting it as one of the fastest-growing global Business Process Services providers, with a 15% year-on-year growth. This recognition underscores SD Worx’s strong momentum in HR and payroll services and its commitment to even better support its customers through innovation and customer-centric solutions.

SD Worx ESG Office conducted a group-wide commuting survey to better understand employee commuting patterns and to collect data for mandatory corporate carbon accounting. With a 50% participation rate, the survey revealed that employees commute an average of 17 km one way, typically twice per week. Six out of ten of employees commute by car. With currently only 7% using electric vehicles (EVs), there is a significant potential for further emission reductions. Since last year, only EVs can be ordered, so that share will increase in any case. SD Worx continues to encourage the use of alternative transport modes as well. More frequent remote work is the most preferred way for employees to adopt more sustainable commuting habits.

Going forward, this survey will be conducted annually, enabling us to track changes over time. The data will feed into our CO₂ consumption calculations, helping us better understand and manage our environmental impact across the company.