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LinkedIn expanded
its Recruiting for Good program to help hospitals and other
essential businesses recruit workers and volunteers during the pandemic.
According to CNBC,
the company has assigned 100 employees for about 540 hospitals, and is handling
260 other requests from healthcare organizations...
Mark Feffer: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology report. I'm Mark Feffer.
Today, I talk with Martha Bird, business anthropologist at ADP Innovation Lab. Her job is to make sure that the human element is accounted for when new digital products are designed, so that, for...
A number of CFOs plan to slow down their payment of vendors in a bid to preserve cash as the coronavirus continues to spread and a global economic crisis takes hold. At the same time, most are confident they can make critical payments for at least 90 days.
According to...
In the weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic began its trans-global spread, investment in HR technology totaled about $867 million. That first-quarter 2020 mark was less than the 2019 fourth quarter’s $1.1 billion, but greater than the 13-quarter average of $841 billion.
The first-quarter investment activity doesn’t reflect any significant impact...
A number of HR leaders have speculated that employers’ attitudes toward remote work will have changed permanently once the COVID-19 pandemic ends. New research shows that thinking’s warranted.
Some three-quarters of CFOs—74 percent—plan to shift at least 5 percent of their employees to remote work, according to Gartner. Nearly a...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news.
Kronos and
Ultimate Software completed their merger, creating an HR
technology company with $3 billion in revenue and 12,000 employees. Kronos CEO Aron
Ain leads the new organization, which will reportedly add 6,000 employees
over the next six years. Industry analysts say...
Providing emotional support has become a critical issue as HR departments scramble to set up and manage remote workforces.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation more people are reporting mental health challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the most recent KFF Health Tracking poll, 45 percent of Americans...
HR departments are heads down today as they
adapt to the changes wrought by Covid-19. But at some point, employers will
look ahead to face a new normal. When they do, early indications are that
executives will move cautiously.
HR’s front lines are now preoccupied with three challenges: setting up employees to work...
Job boards have begun to feel the coronavirus’s
impact on hiring. As employers in most sectors of the economy suspend or slow
their hiring plans, several have implemented hiring freezes and at least one,
ZipRecruiter, has imposed layoffs.
According to media reports, ZipRecruiter began reducing its staff by between 30 and 40 percent...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news.
Paychex reported revenue of $1.1 billion for its fiscal third quarter, which ended Feb. 29, 2020. That’s an increase of 7 percent from the year-ago period. Net income and diluted EPS each increased 9 percent, to $354.5 million...
