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I’m Mark Feffer and this is PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report.
This edition is brought to you by our friends at Ultimate Software, a leading innovator in cloud-based HR technology. They’re dedicated to putting people first—with cloud-based solutions designed to engage, motivate, and empower your workforce. Learn...
Our weekly roundup of deals,
product announcements and other HR technology news.
SMBs are making more use of recruiting
software, according to a survey from JazzHR and Verified First. However,
vendors have a ways to go if they want to satisfy the market. While 60 percent of
SMBs use applicant tracking systems, nearly half...
Here’s a conundrum: One report says 67 percent of workers
prefer to report inappropriate behavior to their manager rather than through
any other channel. Meanwhile, another report says 64 percent trust robots more
than they do their managers.
The first study is the Employee Experience Survey from employee
relations and investigations management platform HR...
Our weekly roundup of deals,
product announcements and other HR technology news.
SilkRoad Technology announced CHRO Essentials, a consulting
program to help HR leaders define their organization’s vision and build a
transformative talent strategy and roadmap to achieve it. CHRO Essentials also
baselines current HR domains, compares those metrics to best practices and
identifies work...
Workforce management platform provider Workforce Logiq has
acquired ENGAGE Talent, which delivers predictive analytics and AI software. Through
the acquisition, Workforce Logiq customers will gain access to proprietary
benchmarks and real-time intelligence to use in their recruiting efforts.
Workforce Logiq CEO Jim Burke said ENGAGE’s products will
give customers “an analytical advantage to make...
Weeks after Uber focused a whiff of attention on gig technology
by launching a pilot of its Uber Works platform in Chicago, the space continues
to simmer with fresh funding and new entrants.
We say a “whiff” of attention because the continued growth of gig technology and services has become an accepted...
Despite all the talk of digital transformation and the
dynamic workforce, Gartner says only 9 percent of CHROs believe their companies
are prepared for the future of work.
To prepare for “this next phase” of work, companies must
plan for and leverage the changes in the way work will get done over...
Our weekly roundup of deals,
product announcements and other HR technology news.
EBI and Sterling unveiled integrations with LinkedIn’s
Talent Hub ATS. With the integrations, customers will be able to sign on
through LinkedIn to request background checks, track their status and receive completed
final reports.
Meanwhile, Facebook said SmartRecruiters and ApplicantPro are implementing...
Candidate resentment is steadily rising, showing an increase
of 40 percent from 2016, according to the Talent Board. And this year candidates
are less likely than they were in 2018 to apply to a company, or recommend it
to others, if they’ve suffered negative experiences in the past.
The Talent Board’s annual...
Symphony Talent acquired SmashFly Technologies, melding its
employer-branding and creative services with its new unit’s recruitment
marketing and CRM tools.
The company said the resulting package will offer talent
acquisition teams with “the most strategic and comprehensive suite of solutions
on the market.”
In some corners of talent acquisition SmashFly may be the better-known...
