Industry News

Coverage of business deals, partnerships, new products, people moves, marketing strategies, regulatory issues and other developments that HCM solutions providers, HR leaders, financial executives and investors need to know.

Transcript to come Something different today. We’re going to break away  from our usual interview to look into three stories that have all taken place in the last couple of weeks: They’re about the future of work and its impact on HR, how employers are applying technology to the labor...
A number of HR professionals are struggling to manage key challenges that confront their organizations this year and next. According to a report by the HR Research Institute, most  acknowledge they’re not prepared for the quick, dramatic changes anticipated  to come along with the future of work.   In fact,...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. Cappfinity announced a newly expanded suite of immersive virtual reality experiences designed to help talent acquisition leaders recruit and retain strong candidates. The new experiences are the latest addition to Cappfinity’s suite...
Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer.             My guest today is Stacey Torrico, the CHRO of Accurate Background. They provide employment background screening and workforce monitoring. Stacey's job involves HR strategy, talent acquisition, diversity, equity and inclusion, and learning and development. We're going...
To help you stay aware of the most interesting HR Tech startups in the market, we asked HR leaders and CEOs to name their best picks. From Cleary to Skilltype, they found several compelling companies you should keep an eye on. Cleary “I met Cleary's co-founder in Las Vegas at HR...
Employers are increasingly relying on their talent acquisition technology stack to solve their biggest hiring challenges, according to a report by Lighthouse Research & Advisory. Indeed, using new hiring technology to address the talent market’s challenges is the number one action employers are taking right now. Titled “Hiring is More...
Employee demand for pay transparency, including how much everyone in the company is paid, combined with moves by 17 states to implement pay transparency laws, could indicate a broad shift toward openness around pay. If that happens, life is about to become more complicated for organizations who’ve stayed away...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. Visier launched the Visier Resignation Report, a tool that allows users to examine shifts in quit rates. Currently updated through the end of May 2022, the Report says the overall rate of employee resignations...
UK-based job-search engine Adzuna said it’s acquired Getwork, an American platform that targets enterprise companies. Getwork connects jobseekers and job openings at a variety of North American employers, indexing millions of verified jobs each day from tens of thousands of employer career sites, the company said. That includes over 50...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. ServiceNow launched Azimuth, an open-source software application that helps AI practitioners better understand their dataset and model predictions by performing thorough dataset and error analyses. The application leverages different tools, including robustness tests, semantic similarity analysis and saliency maps, unified by concepts such as smart tags and proposed...