Culture & Engagement

It seems ironic that so many companies seek to engage their employees through the use of technology platforms that may, for one reason or another, put more distance between organizations and employees. Technology doesn’t eliminate the need for thought, planning and leadership. The articles here result from our quest to find the right balance.

Edenred, a digital platform for services, payments and employee benefits, acquired the employee engagement platform Reward Gateway. With a presence in the U.S. as well as the UK and Australia, Reward Gateway offers a suite of solutions ranging from employee saving to next song Family Dollar yes add Magic...
Building an employee experience was difficult enough even before everyone trekked into the office. But at that point employers at least had some control over the environment in which their employees worked. That changed with Covid and the shift to remote work. In a scant matter of months, organizations...
Abundantly, developers of a “reimagined” employee recognition platform, released an AI-enabled content creation tool. Called Amplify, the product generates content whenever employers are creating materials for personalized employee recognition. For managers and employees who want to create an effective recognition experience, crafting a meaningful message can be difficult and time-consuming....
Employee experience platform Simpplr secured $70 million in Series D funding. The investment was led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from existing investor Norwest Venture Partners. Simpplr says it’s benefitting from the trend of companies deciding the complexities of work and life require “radically different” ways to connect, engage and...
Employee experience platform LumApps launched Spaces, a new feature designed to help organizations develop the engagement of their employees. The product – which provides a central place for employees to share information and connect with co-workers – is an evolution of the company’s existing LumApps Communities. Founded in 2015, LumApps...
Beeline, which bills itself as the leading technology provider for managing the global extended workforce, is evolving its platform to provide customers with an improved view of their total workforce and audit-ready compliance, designed around the contemporary mix of employees and non-employees. As workforce demands see their greatest swings...
meQuilibrium, whose platform is designed to help position workforces for growth, announced new services-led software that will enable HR and business leaders to identify and address risks and growth opportunities by leveraging data insights, targeted communications and upskilling. Called “Workforce Campaigns,” the package helps organizations reduce risk and promote growth...
Transcript Mark:               Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Paul Davies, the senior vice president for HR Business Partners at ServiceNow. People talked about encouraging transformation, but Paul's actually done it. Before joining ServiceNow, he was head of...
Topia claimed to have “transformational” growth and innovation over the last year, with its automated solutions for talent mobility management driving “significant year-over-year growth in enterprise customers, strategic acquisition and product innovation.” The company said its most notable success was an increase in size for its customer base, with the...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I’m Mark Feffer. My guest today is Ryan Naylor, the CEO of VIVAHR. VIVAHR aims to help businesses, mostly small businesses leverage their culture to improve their efforts in talent acquisition. We’re going to talk about how that works,...