HRmarketer, which for years has provided a marketing and
employee advocacy platform for the HR and recruiting industries, has rolled out
advos, a redesigned and newly built version of its HRmarketer product.
Designed for companies selling products and services into the HR community, advos combines marketing planning, collaboration, advocacy, business intelligence and...
Employee survey and workforce analytics company Perceptyx received a “significant” investment from financial firm TCV. The company said it will use the funds to speed up its development and expansion efforts.
Perceptyx provides its customers with analytics that can be
used to improve the employee experience, predict business challenges and influence
strategic...
Small-business payroll and benefits platform Gusto raised
$200 million Series D funding. Fidelity Management & Research Company and Generation
Investment Management joined previous investors Dragoneer Investment Group,
General Catalyst and investors advised by T. Rowe Price.
CEO Josh Reeves said the company as been “intentional” in working with investors who take a long-term...
More than 55 percent of procurement and finance professionals expect a recession to begin before the end of 2020, and 30 percent of them say they’re not prepared to cope with an economic downturn if it hits.
According to research published by the Seattle-based financial system provider Suplari, many procurement...
Amazon will spend
more than $700 million to upskill a third of its American workforce. The
company said its goal is to help employees move into new jobs—both technical
and non-technical—across nearly all of its operations.
The “Upskilling 2025” effort will create programs for employees of all professional backgrounds, at all of...
15Five, an
early provider of continuous performance management software, closed a $30.7
million Series B round. The investment was led by Next47, a Siemens venture firm,
and brings 15Five’s total capital raised to $42.6 million.
The company will use the money to push its expansion efforts, scale sales and marketing and invest “heavily”...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news
Despite all the talk about improved performance management systems, just 2 percent of HR leaders world-wide say their existing systems deliver exceptional value, according to Mercer’s 2019 Global Performance Management Study. That’s nearly unchanged from six years ago,...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news.
Alexander Mann Solutions acquired Karen HR, developers of a “cognitive recruiting assistant” that integrates with existing ATS systems to quickly rank resumes against job openings engage with jobseekers via chat or SMS. AMS said the acquisition extends its...
Social
learning platform Degreed closed a $40 million debt facility with AllianceBernstein
and raised $35 million in equity funding from existing investors Owl Ventures,
Jump Capital, Signal Peak Ventures and GSV Accelerate.
The company said it will use the financing to continue product development, fund international expansion and further develop its capabilities in...
In this
Point of View, Adam Rogers, co-CEO
and chief technology officer at Ultimate Software, shows us how organizations
can use lessons learned by others to put technology to its best use.
In today’s world, every
successful company is a tech company.
It’s become impossible
to separate business strategy from technological innovation. That’s why everyone
from retailers to...
