Although WFM has been around for a long time, automation in the space and increasing availability of cloud solutions have driven many companies to reconsider their WFM investment strategy, either as part of a broader human capital management (HCM) suite decision or as a standalone purchase. To better understand the overall financial returns from WFM in the often-overhyped HCM market, Nucleus analyzed its case studies on WFM deployments and found that for every dollar spent on WFM software, a company gets back an average of $12.24, with a payback period of under 5 months. This compares to HCM overall, which returns $9.20 for every dollar spent.