Ceridian Corporation is a global business services company in the human resources

Human resources

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, transportation and retail markets, serving businesses worldwide with employees in the USA

United States

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, Canada

Canada

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, Europe

Europe

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 and Mauritius

Mauritius

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. It was a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange

New York Stock Exchange

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 until it was acquired in 2007 by Thomas H. Lee Partners and Fidelity National Financial.
Ceridian is a descendant of Control Data Corporation

Control Data Corporation

Control Data Corporation was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc....

 (CDC). In 1992, Ceridian emerged as an information services company from the restructuring of CDC, a computer services and manufacturing company founded in 1957.