Cadana Blog

How to Prep Yourself and Your Team Before You Go on Leave

Work leaves are usually exciting, especially if you have looked forward to it for months. It is a great time to de-stress and rejuvenate to return even more productive. However, as with everything else in the workplace, you need to plan and ensure there is a smooth workflow while you

Work Life: How Tere moved from Architecture to designing world class digital products.

Work Life is a new Cadana series that talks to people that have successfully created a career path for themselves across various industries. New episodes will drop every month and we’ll explore working through the lens of people who are figuring it out day by day. Tere Sagay is

People Management

How Businesses Can Improve Work Culture & Manage Gen Zs Better in 2022 - Ruby Addai

For the August edition of our Culture Leaders series, we chat with an HR professional with over 12 years of industry experience, Ruby Addai. Ruby is the HR Business Partner - Ghana for Robert Bosch Ghana Limited, leading People Management. She is passionate about improving the educational system in Africa

Payroll

My Small Business Story: How Float Improved Business Operations through Simpler and Faster Payroll

We’re introducing ‘My Small Business Story’! It’s a monthly content series where we chat with small business owners and operations personnel to discuss how they improve their business operations and scale by taking advantage of technology. We discuss every aspect of the growth of their operations, from faster

Product Updates

Our Commitment to Securing Your Data and Enabling Confidentiality for Your Business

We’re thrilled to share that Cadana is now compliant with the SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO /IEC 27001:2013 standard for security, availability, processing integrity and confidentiality! Data security is a fundamental element of our commitment to protecting sensitive user information and privacy. We take security seriously at

People Management

Meta Tech Sourcer Lauretta Ejerenwa on Why Organisations Need to Invest in a Healthy Work Culture

Lauretta is a Global Tech Recruiter with several years of experience hiring for tech roles ranging from Software/DevOps/QA/Machine Learning Engineers to Product Designers, Product Managers, and Technical Leads. She is an expert at tech sourcing, with a track record of doing impactful work in the ecosystem by

People Management

Culture Leaders: In Conversation with Cadana People Manager Abena Frimpong

“Selecting a career based on other people's opinions or because it's in vogue is not the best way to go. Disregarding your identity and allowing the pressure of your peers' successes to influence you may lead to bad decisions. Some career paths are not for you. Know who you are.

People Management

Cadana Workers’ Month: Celebrate Your Workers with a Flexible Compensation Plan Today

Employee financial wellness is at the forefront of conversations around the creation and sustenance of a healthy work culture because these impact their productivity in the workplace. In achieving these, employers are paying more attention to workplace benefits, motivation, and the big one - compensation - in order to redefine

People Management

Why Young Employees are Demanding More Flexible Compensation Methods

Young people are seeking more flexibility in how they work and how they’re paid. It is this understanding that will inform hiring and retention strategies for various People Management Teams across the world. The pandemic and the ensuing lockdown changed a lot of the realities of human resources management.

People Management

Cadana Culture Leaders: Meet Career Consultant and CV Writer, Hansel Praise

This month on Culture Leaders, we highlight Hansel Praise’s work as a career specialist and CV Writer. Hansel is one of the most sought-after CV writers, LinkedIn specialists, and career consultants in Nigeria and brings his wealth of experience providing high-quality CVs, career documents, and coaching to clients from

Cadana and GetEquity, A Match Made in Heaven

What Does Cadana Do? We started Cadana with a simple premise. That if you are a hardworking African there should be a clear path to financial success for you. We are starting with solving the most immediate need for working Africans which is short-term access to credit using our Cadana

Salary On-Demand Startup, Cadana, Teams up with Flutterwave to Expand into Nigeria

New York, 1st March, 2022: Cadana, a salary on-demand startup has expanded operations into Nigeria following a strategic partnership with Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company. Cadana helps businesses delight their employees by providing modern payroll platforms that allow employees access to their earned salary on-demand, anytime, anywhere. Following

Getting Started

Cadana InstantPay, a win-win for Employers and Employees

Life is unpredictable. Children get sick, cars break down and random bills come up at the most inconvenient times. When unexpected expenses occur before payday, workers are financially stressed because they have few options to obtain money. This leads to depreciating health (more bills), as well as, poor engagement and

People Management

Teju Fola-Alade, On Life, Career and Creating a Positive Workplace Culture

Culture Leaders is a new content series by Cadana to celebrate all People Managers across Africa. On this week's episode, we spotlight Teju Fola-Alade—People and Culture Leader at MANO. As an HR practitioner in the corporate sector and a professional biographer, she partners with senior executives, business owners and

Getting Started

3 Things We Shared During Our Demo at TechPoint Build

At TechPoint Build 2021 which took place on Saturday, January 22, 2022, Cadana team were present to demo our platform and showcase our solutions. The conference is known to be Techpoint Africa’s largest convention which is hosted to connect key players in the African startup community. This year, the

People Management

Cadana for Employers: Exploring the Basic Stages of a Hiring Process

Hiring for your company can be tricky especially if you are running a startup or a small business with minimal resources at your disposal to outsource or set up a human resources department. For every time you do not get it right with hiring, you run the risk of depleting

Payroll

Introducing Cadanapay; Delight your People and Streamline your Payroll

In the day-to-day management of any business, people management and payroll are two of the biggest categories business owners need to cater to. It takes a lot of time, requires a lot of energy, and can have serious consequences on the productivity and growth of the business...

People Management

Top 5 Locations for Team-Bonding in Africa for Remote Teams

We went to Ghana for an offsite retreat! It was nothing short of beautiful. The raging current from the ocean didn't have a thing on the stained rocks at the beach. The same rocks where people find love, rediscover their relationships, themselves and plan the year. For us, it was