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 Ultimate Software ULTI, a leading provider of human capital 
 management (HCM) solutions in the cloud, announced today that Fortune 
 has ranked Ultimate #7 on its 2017 list of the 100 Best Companies to 
 Work For. This marks Ultimate's highest-ever ranking on the 
 prestigious list and our sixth consecutive year in the top 25, 
 recognizing our core commitment to fostering a "People First" workplace 
 built on care, trust, and respect.
 

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 "Our people make Ultimate who we are, and our first priority is to care 
 for them like family—always," said Scott Scherr, CEO, president, and 
 founder of Ultimate. "We're 100% focused on providing a positive, 
 productive workplace for our people, and we help our customers do the 
 same for their people. Since the beginning, we've believed that putting 
 people first empowers them to achieve personal success and impact 
 business in great ways. They are motivated to create the most innovative 
 products, deliver the best service to customers, and support one another 
 as a team, every day. From developing our culture to building our HR and 
 payroll technology, ‘People First' shines through Ultimate at every 
 step."
 
 
 Through a variety of employee-centric programs, benefits, and perks, 
 Ultimate's people are inspired to learn and grow as professionals, 
 succeed through collaboration, celebrate team accomplishments, and give 
 back in the community. Benefits for all regular, full-time employees 
 include 100% employer-paid healthcare coverage for themselves and their 
 families, including same-sex married couples; a 401(k) retirement plan 
 with a 40% company match on every dollar, with no cap; restricted stock 
 units gifted upon hiring, with the ability to earn additional shares for 
 outstanding performance; paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave; 
 and two paid service days a year for employees to volunteer in their 
 communities at nonprofit organizations of their choosing.
 
 
 Ultimate fosters career and personal growth through ongoing learning 
 opportunities, as well as our leadership-development programs, LeadUS 
 and Footprints. Employees are also encouraged to join and participate in 
 Ultimate's diverse Communities of Interest—PrideUS, Women in Leadership, 
 and UltiVETS—each offering networking events and promoting acceptance, 
 equality, and support for all individuals. Additionally, Ultimate 
 prioritizes employees' overall wellbeing and cultivates engagement with 
 everyday perks such as on-site massages, meditation, acupuncture, and 
 exercise classes; a Starbucks on campus; companywide birthday 
 celebrations; frequent food; and monthly visits from the ice cream 
 truck, with free treats.
 
 
 Ultimate congratulates all our customers also named to Fortune's 100 
 Best Companies to Work For list in 2017, with special recognition to 
 Google, celebrating its eighth year at #1. Some of our customers who 
 made the list include Activision Blizzard, Acuity, Adobe Systems, 
 American Fidelity Assurance, Baker Donelson, Camden Property Trust, The 
 Container Store, David Weekley Homes, Hyland, JM Family Enterprises, 
 Kimley-Horn, Nvidia, Quicken Loans, REI, Slalom, TDIndustries, and 
 Veterans United Home Loans.
 
 
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 Work For, visit <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2Fbest-companies&amp;esheet=51523318&amp;newsitemid=20170309005728&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=http%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2Fbest-companies&amp;index=1&amp;md5=74e529d5318413418d442491f1c87f5f" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">http://fortune.com/best-companies</a>.
 
 
 About The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®
 
 
 To identify the 100 Best Companies to Work For®, each 
 year Fortune partners with Great Place to Work to conduct the most 
 extensive employee survey in corporate America. The ranking is based on 
 feedback from more than 232,000 employees at Great Place to 
 Work-Certified™ companies with more than 1,000 employees.
 
 
 Winning a spot on this list indicates the company has distinguished 
 itself from peers by creating a great place to work for 
 employees—measured and ranked through our analysis of the results of our 
 Trust Index© survey and Culture Audit© 
 questionnaire.
 
 
 Through the Trust Index, employees anonymously assess their workplace, 
 including the honesty and quality of communication by managers, degree 
 of support for employees' personal and professional lives, and the 
 authenticity of relationships with colleagues. Results from the survey 
 are highly reliable, having a 95% confidence level and a margin of error 
 of 5% or less. Companies' results on the Trust Index survey are compared 
 to peer organizations of like size and complexity. The Culture Audit 
 includes detailed questions about benefits, programs, and practices.
 
 
 About Great Place to Work®
 
 
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 Place to Work</a>® is the global authority on high-trust, 
 high-performance workplace cultures. Through proprietary assessment 
 tools, advisory services, and certification programs, including Best 
 Workplaces lists and workplace reviews, Great Place to Work provides the 
 benchmarks, framework, and expertise needed to create, sustain, and 
 recognize outstanding workplace cultures. In the United States, Great 
 Place to Work produces the annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work 
 For® and a series of Great Place to Work Best 
 Workplaces lists, including lists for Millennials, Women, Diversity, 
 Small and Medium Companies, and over a half dozen different industries. 
 Great Place to Work provides executive advisory and <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greatplacetowork.com%2Fculture-consulting&amp;esheet=51523318&amp;newsitemid=20170309005728&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=culture+consulting+services&amp;index=3&amp;md5=6a3565b4a5f90566af521a507c78ed2c" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">culture 
 consulting services</a> to businesses, nonprofits, and government 
 agencies in over 50 countries across six continents.
 
 
 About Ultimate Software
 
 
 Ultimate is a leading provider of cloud-based human capital management 
 (HCM) solutions, with approximately 33 million people records in the 
 cloud. Ultimate's award-winning UltiPro delivers HR, payroll, talent, 
 and time and labor management solutions that connect people with the 
 information they need to work more effectively. Founded in 1990, 
 Ultimate is headquartered in Weston, Florida, and employs more than 
 3,700 professionals. In 2017, Fortune ranked Ultimate #1 on its list of 
 the 10 Best Workplaces in Technology, Ultimate's second year to 
 top this list, and Brandon Hall Group honored Ultimate with a Gold 
 Award in Technology. In 2016, Fortune ranked Ultimate #15 on 
 its 100 Best Companies to Work For list, the fifth consecutive 
 year to be ranked in the top 25. Ultimate was also ranked #1 on 
 Glassdoor's list of 25 Highest-Rated Public Cloud Computing Companies 
 to Work For, #8 on Forbes' list of the 100 Most Innovative Growth 
 Companies, and ranked #1 in customer satisfaction in G2 Crowd's 
 Summer 2016 Core HR Software Grid report, based on user reviews. 
 Ultimate has approximately 3,700 customers with employees in 160 
 countries, including Bloomin' Brands, Culligan International, Feeding 
 America, Major League Baseball, Red Roof Inn, SUBWAY, Texas Roadhouse, 
 and Yamaha Corporation of America. More information on Ultimate's 
 products and services for people management can be found at <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultimatesoftware.com&amp;esheet=51523318&amp;newsitemid=20170309005728&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=www.ultimatesoftware.com&amp;index=4&amp;md5=287c56bfc52377a7b978f0daac9510eb" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">www.ultimatesoftware.com</a>.
 
 
 UltiPro is a registered trademark of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. 
 All other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective 
 owners.
 
 
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