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.

Outmatch acquired Amsterdam-based Harver, a provider of volume-hiring software. The company said Harver’s platform complements the assessments, video interviewing and reference-checking of Outmatch’s Hiring Experience Stack. The combination will allow employers to make more informed, more efficient hires. The combination of capabilities will “form a solution that disrupts the pre-hire technology...
The effects of working from home during Covid-19 is impacting the way a number of American workers look at the job market. Beamery’s Talent Index found that more than half of Americans, 59%, are mulling the idea of quitting their jobs during 2021. Of those, 71% are examining their options...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. Lever announced its spring feature release, which focuses on increasing efficiency for recruiters. The release includes faster screening, improved job requisition and visual reporting features. Beeline acquired JoinedUp, a high-volume workforce solution focused...
Listen to a podcast of our roundup. Performance management platform 15Five acquired employee engagement software provider Emplify for $50 million. With the acquisition, 15Five’s team will grow by more than 30%. The company now has a customer base of over 2,800, including Spotify, Hubspot, Peloton, Credit Karma, and Siemens. Salary.com secured...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. HireRight released an integration ServiceNow, deployed through the ServiceNow store. The integration lets recruiters and hiring managers initiate employment and recurring background checks and drug testing on candidates and existing employees, directly...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of this roundup. UKG said it now has more than 250 technology and services partners in its network and that, with its launch of UKG Marketplace, it has created one of the largest global partner...
Transcript Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I’m Mark Feffer. This week’s podcast is brought to you by Criteria. Finding and retaining great talent is a challenge – and Criteria can help. Their assessments help you make better talent decisions by identifying high-potential candidates. They’ve been designed...
Despite increasing social, political and even investor pressure, just 19% of the world’s largest companies have disclosed data about the makeup of their workforce, according to a survey by the Workforce Disclosure Initiative, an international investor coalition. Partly funded by the British government, the WDI pushes to improve the data...
Phenom announced a $100 million Series D investment round that the company will use to further develop its Talent Experience Management platform. The round was led B Capital Group with Dragoneer Investment Group, OMERS Growth Equity and GoldenArc Capital also participating.   In a blog post, Phenom CEO Mahe Bayireddi...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast version of this roundup. The great majority of employers, 85% of them, have a formal strategy governing their approach to HR technology or plan to implement one in the next year, according to a study...